Wednesday night on my way from New Mexico to California the clouds were clearing up so I was looking for a place to setup and take some Milky Way photos. It was already dark, and I was 6 hours behind my proposed schedule as I spent a long time in Bandelier National Monument that day. It was totally worth it, but it had put me behind my schedule. So that meant finding a place based on looking at the map rather then just driving and finding what looked like a cool ground layer away from light pollution.
So I found what looked interesting, it was about 5 miles SE of Winslow Arizona. Clear Creek is what I found, McHood Park was on the East side, I was set up on the West side not far from a small campground. It was about midnight by the time I got there, so scouting was complicated by the darkness. There was a lot of brush along the creek, but I found a boat ramp I could set up on. While setting up I heard the loud slap of what sounded like beaver. So that was cool, and unexpected. In the morning as I was wrapping up, I did actually see the beaver as well. It was still pretty dark, and as it got lighter to where I could have photographed it, it swam off.
Single image
Nikon D850
Sigma 14mm f1.8
ISO 2000
20 secs
f1.8
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. The elongated stars on the water are not from water movement, but a simple matter of physics. The reflection of the stars are closer in perspective to the camera, so they move faster on the water reflection then they do millions of light years away in the sky relative to the camera.
So I found what looked interesting, it was about 5 miles SE of Winslow Arizona. Clear Creek is what I found, McHood Park was on the East side, I was set up on the West side not far from a small campground. It was about midnight by the time I got there, so scouting was complicated by the darkness. There was a lot of brush along the creek, but I found a boat ramp I could set up on. While setting up I heard the loud slap of what sounded like beaver. So that was cool, and unexpected. In the morning as I was wrapping up, I did actually see the beaver as well. It was still pretty dark, and as it got lighter to where I could have photographed it, it swam off.
Single image
Nikon D850
Sigma 14mm f1.8
ISO 2000
20 secs
f1.8
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. The elongated stars on the water are not from water movement, but a simple matter of physics. The reflection of the stars are closer in perspective to the camera, so they move faster on the water reflection then they do millions of light years away in the sky relative to the camera.
