Every single month, at the…

Photo Caption: Every single month, at the beginning of a new Milky Way session I tend to be desperate… Those couple weeks or so from night shooting has me fiending all over again.. Mid april was no different so I planned to stop in St George for the night to stay with friends so I could shoot at Zion on my way up to Moab the following day…
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At dinner with my buddy Jason Laughlin, we scoped out the angle and time of alignment for the MW with The Watchman from the bridge over the creek. I know, a very common comp but one I didn’t have yet, and one that was super easy to get to when I was out shooting alone that night which is something I don’t typically make a habit of.. We figured out that it wasn’t going to line up till right before it started getting light out, but for some reason I hoped I was wrong so I set an alarm for 130 am, and left for Zion by 2..
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I was at the bridge by 230 and pulled out photo pills to find that I was quite correct in my earlier calculations and it wouldn’t align till 430.. I didn’t want to wait around that long so, dejected, I started driving back towards Springdale, hoping for a different composition. As I was exiting the gates of Zion, I saw the MW lined up to The Watchman in a not as common composition over the campgrounds.
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I hopped out of my car, shot 2 different comps over about 30 minutes, and happily called it a night!
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Foreground
ISO 6400
F2.0
30 seconds
10 images stacked in SLS for NR
Sky
ISO 6400
F2.0
13 seconds
10 images stacked in SLS for NR
Processed in LR & PS
@TokinaUSA 14-20 2.0
@SlikUSA 634-CFL
@CanonUSA 70d
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