This image is an 8 shot panorama featuring the full arc of our Milky Way galaxy over the sandstone fins that encompass the Sand Dune Arch area in Arches National Park, Utah. The foreground was statically lit with an LED panel. The green and magenta hues in the sky are airglow, a naturally occurring optical phenomenon that the human eye can't see but the camera captures. Nikon D600 & 14-24mm @ 14mm f/3.2 - 8 x 25 secs - ISO 6400 Stitched & processed via LR & PS CC
Before & After graphic with EXIF data on our Processing page. Somniloquy is the term that describes the act of talking while asleep. All of the images in our Somniloquy series have to do with exposure blends and creativity: day shots for the foreground and night shots for the sky, processed and blended via Lightroom & Photoshop CC with a dream state in mind.
With news that Mother Nature was going to put on a Northern Lights display we headed to one of our favorite spots to view and capture them – Moosehead Lake, located just above the 45 degree latitude point. The Visual: a huge green arc with dancing spikes, pulsating waves of light that stretched overhead and over 180 degrees across the sky. At a few different points it was a variable rainbow of colors. All of this was being perfectly reflected in the smooth-as-glass water right in front of us. The Audio: a nearby crackling campfire, the call of the loons, some crickets & frogs and the occasional sound of a chipmunk scurrying past. The show started just before 10PM. It ebbed and flowed through the night until almost 3AM - this was easily the longest and most impressive aurora display we have witnessed. This image is one frame from an 800+ frame time lapse that captured the entire event.
