Photo Caption: I’ve been wanting to shoot here for quite some time now; even went as far as hiking here in April of last year to scope it out for Milky Way… well, a couple things… number 1, it’s not easy to find and number 2, once inside even GPS signal seems to not work well.. so this time around I was assuming it would like up like I wanted; thankfully I was right..
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I had met up with @Ryantoswald on the morning of the 11th day of #TheGreatMilkyWayChase.. he originally was going to head to monument valley but I convinced him otherwise and he joined us on our trek into Canyonlands… We got there around 6 in the evening when it was SLIGHTLY starting to cool off… Even though I knew where to get on trail, I took a short cut following well worn paths, well marked with cairns throughout.. I couldn’t believe how many there were when we cliffed out way too high above the Kiva… when I realized what a disaster the trails were, I made my way towards where I knew the drop in point was, having to back track a ton because of the cliff that we were stuff on top of.
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I have to make a side note; I have no idea where all those cairns came from and am mad at how dangerous it is for people wandering around lost in the hot desert.. can’t believe people put those up as if that’s a real trail… so warning to those who go to visit; make sure to do your research because there is ONE true trail to this sacred place.. on the flip side, I do like that it’s super confusing and not everyone is going to arrive successfully to this location…
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We shot a beautiful sunset here and then shot some blue hour images before hanging around almost 4 more hours for the MW to line up; this was somewhere around 230am.. we hiked out as blue hour was just starting to lighten up the sky. We walked out NO PROBLEM on the correct trail back.
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I used 3 lumecube.com/160.html (use TRACYLEE for free US Shipping) to light this stacked image and blended in a blue hour image for the background mountains.
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Sky & foreground:
20 images stacked in SLS for NR
ISO 6400
F2.8
20 seconds
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Background mountains:
5 images stacked in PS
ISO 100
F2.8
60 seconds
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@tokinausa 11-20 @ 16
@slikusa 634-CF
@canonusa 6DMK1
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