I spent Saturday night photographing nightscapes around Silver Lake, in Brighton, Utah

This is seriously addicting!  It is fascinating to use a camera to capture something hidden in the night sky. I love the Milky Way and the explosion of color that goes with it. You need to find a dark place away from city lights to pull off a great nightscape. Check out this ebook by Royce Bair, who is the master nightscape photographer in the world! It was fun to work with you and I can’t wait to join one of your workshops!

I am not sure why, but the distant hill came up in bright red light!  Perphaps someone had a campfire blazing and with a long shutter of 20 seconds it exposures the red glow enough to be seen. Or may someone else was just light painting across the way?

I positioned my tripod so it would shoot straight up, then I practically laid on the ground to get this angle and composition. I wanted the milky way to appear to be coming out of the treetops.