Trail Ridge Lights

[kalgra]

I made this image last summer overlooking Trail Ridge Road and Rocky Mountain National park. I only just now got time to process it. Im not sure if this is the final edit yet I may come back to it again after I have had some time to think on it more.

This is primarily a composite of two separate exposures. The mountains and foreground were taken just after the sun had set with a Canon 70-200mm at 155mm f/8 for 30 seconds at ISO 100. The milky way was shot several hours later that night from the same location with a 25mm f/2 Zeiss Distagon, 15 seconds at f/2 and ISO 3200.

Both images were manually blended in PS.

Trail Ridge Road spans the Park and connects Estes Park on the east side to the town of Grand Lake on the western slope. It's the highest continuous paved road in the United States, reaching an elevation of 12,183 feet. It follows a path that the Ute and other Native American peoples used for thousands of years.

Trail Ridge Lights by Kristian Algra, on Flickr

 

[smoke665]

Very nice

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

Very nice job you've done.

 

[OldManJim]

Very nicely done!

 

[kalgra]

Thanks all for the nice comments. I had fun putting it together.

 

[Sil]

beautiful !!

 

[Jeff G]

Beautifully done. It still amazes me that that kind of detail can be pulled from the night sky.

 

[Randy Rainey]

Absolutely gorgeous image

 

[Rahb]

Wonderful image.

I need to try to learn how to get images of the night sky like that.

Have to find somewhere with a little less light noise though