Three Clear Nights flower

Three Clear Nights flowerA star trails shot capturing three consecutive nights and composed of more than 3000 40 second exposures. This image is the result of our Earth's rotation, a spinning that gives the illusion of stars rotating around our polar axis. It is rare, particularly in Montana, to have three nights of clear skies in a row. To capture these images, I used a down coat and hand warmers on my camera to prevent frost from forming on the lens, bolting everything to

2019 at 5:05am when the temperature was sixteen degrees below zero

Wintering along the North Fork of the Shoshone River

This sunset

Each comes signed by the artist

dead fir in the foreground is leaning a little more than when I first discovered it in 2019

near Bozeman

They speak of eras that aren't coming back

the entire scene faded to hues of pale blue and grey

I backpacked 60 pounds of astrophotography gear into this remote bowl

Shot as a stitched panorama

This is one of the first Milky Way shots of 2019

I returned the the Big Horns and this meadow