Joshua Tree Roadtrip - October 2020

Roadtrip October 6-9, 2020. The goal was for more night photography, but the weather didn't cooperate. Similarly the bigger mammals, like the bighorn sheep, were nowhere to be found. But I had a great time and happily got some images I'm proud of even if the plans went by the wayside.

The Universe
The Park is certainly amazing, but then the sun goes down and you look up at the sky... [A composite of 60 25-second exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 3200]
The Earlier Universe
Though processed and posted later, this was the first of the two star trails I shot that night. [60 25-second exposures at f/5.6 and ISO 3200] Kind of impressed with the strict adherence to the flight patterns, but unsure what the horizontal line of red dots represents, especially the gap in the middle. It didn't go dark and I didn't skip an image. It just jumped forward (right/east) from one image to the next. A short hyperspace jump though, if confirmed, would corroborate my theory that the other streaks aren't airplane lights but a Tholian web being covered up by the Men In Black.
Flowering Cactus
Bloom on the cholla cactus in the Cholla Garden.