Star Trails at Delicate Arch

[Roman Kurywczak]

This is what you get when you can't point north. Canon Mark3 with the 17-40mm lens at 17mm. ISO 100 at f4.5 open for 1 hour.
Comments welcomed and appreciated,
Roman

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[Roger Clark]

Very cool. I assume the light is from Moab? What is the light
lighting up the arch? I think it would be interesting to see the light of
Moab (or whatever) in the arch, so if you moved to the left the arch would not
have blocked the light.
Roger

[Alfred Forns]

Excellent suggestion Roger Cool image The feel has it !!!

Roman after seeing all these long exposures I'm tempted to go out and give it a try !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Fabs Forns]

Great surreal look and light, love it!

[Robert Amoruso]

Roman,

The streaking affect is a nice change of pace from the circular effect. Nicely done. Roger has a good suggestion but is the Moab light that obvious when your standing there vs. how it builds up during an hour long exposure? My point being that placement of the light in the exposure may be difficult to gauge.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi All,
The light from Moab is pretty obvious to the naked eye. I felt that by placing it in the arch I felt it would /could overpower it. The lighting on the arch and snow is from the light pollution and a short amount of light painting.
Thanks all for looking and commenting,
Roman
PS Alfred.....remember that the longer you keep the shutter open the longer the trails.

[Robert Amoruso]

Thanks for the follow-up Roman. I like it just as you created it.

[Phil Witt]

Hi Roman--Great shot, as are all the other star trail images you presented at your camera club workshop the other evening.

Phil

[D. Robert Franz]

Great as presented......