Star Trails Composite - 2024-05 Joshua Tree - David Pitts Photographer

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Joshua Tree National Park - May 2024

This was another trip with Backcountry Journeys. Jon Resnick was our guide and he did an outstanding job.

It turns out that light pollution is a significant factor at Joshua Tree and we were plagued by a bright moon that set very late in the night giving us a narrow window to shoot Milky Way shots.

This album has only a few shots because our timing was tough and the window for our prime purpose (the Milky Way) was pretty narrow. As this album shows, I'm not a great landscape photographer so when the stars weren't available, I didn't find much to shoot.

In the end my favorite photo from this trip is the sunrise sun star through the Joshua Tree.

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I was totally uninterested in Star Trails when I went, but then I shot this one. I thought it turned out great, and I had nothing else to do while we waited for the moon to set so we could shoot Milky Way images. I think the straight lines are airplanes.
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Star Trails Composite - 2024-05 Joshua Tree - David Pitts Photographer
I was totally uninterested in Star Trails when I went, but then I shot this one. I thought it turned out great, and I had nothing else to do while we waited for the moon to set so we could shoot Milky Way images. I think the straight lines are airplanes.