Rocky Mountain bull elk bugling during the rutting or mating season - its breath hanging in the frosty morning air.
Moon glow from the rising quarter moon, directly behind Balanced Rock, Arches National Park. The midnight moonlight from the rising moon is overpowering all but the brighter stars. However, you can clearly see Pleiades, the Seven Sisters constellation (Messier object 45 or M45) to the right. Light painting for Balanced Rock is coming from a stationary, reflected quartz halogen spotlight (2-million candlepower) about 300 feet away.
Milky Way stars over 'The Organ' in Arches National Park. The Organ has been light painted from a distance of about 700 feet by a single, stationary quartz halogen light (from camera right). The glow on the right horizon is from the moon, which will rise in another 30 minutes. Camera direction is northeast.
Moonlight across Cathedral Valley. Starry night sky with moonlight streaking across the Upper Cathedral Valley monoliths in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. This is a remote area in the northern most region of the park that is only accessible with a four-wheel drive vehicle via primitive dirt roads and river crossings! The monument on the right is about 400 feet (122 m.) high. It is enhanced with light painting from two stationary incandescent lights and one handheld, 2-million candlepower quartz halogen light -- from a distance of 900 feet (274 m.) away.
Starry night sky over Temple of the Moon - a sandstone monolith located in the remote Cathedral Valley of Capital Reef National Park. Temple of the Sun is in the distance, on the left. The Temple of the Moon is about 280 feet (85 m.) high. Photographed in one 15 seconds exposure, 2 hours after sunset. The glow on the horizon is the approaching moonrise.
Starry Night sky over Balance Rock in Arches National Park. As tall as 23 men, or a 13-story building --the total height of Balanced Rock is about 128 feet (39 m), with the balancing rock rising 55 feet (16.75 m) above the base. The big rock on top is the size of three school buses. This sandstone formation has been light painted from a distance of about 450 feet by a moving, diffused, quartz halogen light (from camera left). Camera direction is northeast. Photographed about three hours after sunset.
Stars over Tetons at Oxbow Bend, Grand Teton National Park
Milky Way dawn over Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park. (Pre-dawn - 4:13 AM two hours before sunrise, taken from Elk Ranch Flats Turnout.)
Trees silhouetting the Milky Way stars, as they shine over Jenny Lake and the reflecting Grand Teton peak, Grand Teton National Park
Rocky Mountain bull elk bugling during the rutting or mating season - its breath hanging in the frosty morning air.
Rocky Mountain bull elk bugling during the rutting or mating season - its breath hanging in the frosty morning air.
Rocky Mountain bull elk bugling during the rutting or mating season - its breath hanging in the frosty morning air.
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