Moonrise at Castle Butte, Valley of the Gods Size:30x45 is what lives inside this

is what lives inside this frame

This image was created using a simple focus stack to maintain clarity across the foreground stone and the spire

bentonite hills streaked with color

ancestral peoples marked stone across this landscape

The sky was captured later that same night during peak airglow activity

Moonrise at Castle Butte, Valley of the Gods Size:30x45 is what lives inside thisValley of the Gods, Utah This photograph was made near the Castle Butte in the Valley of the Gods, and it came from a single frame pulled from a time lapse sequence. It was never intended to be a complex composite or a heavily engineered night image. The moment simply worked on its own. The bright glow on the left horizon and the soft illumination across the desert floor come from a moonrise, captured just as the moon crested the horizon. That natural