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Star Trails over The Never Summer Range
Star Trails over The Never Summer Range
hahn23


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Night Sky (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
Date: Jun 2, 2008
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 50
Shutter: 874.0s
Galleries: Landscape, Astrophotography
Date Uploaded: Jun 2, 2008

 4 a.m. The Never Summer Range in RMNP, as seen from Gore Range Overlook on Trail Ridge Road. It was windy, but I secured the tripod. There were some clouds, but not too many. This is looking southwest.

I consider this image an accomplishment. It reached top 10 status. It fully complied with the challenge description!!!!! And, it would have passed basic editing rules. Thanks for all the wonderful comments. The voters who gave me low votes were silent! But, then they are allowed to vote in the dark of the night.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 46
Avg (all users): 6.8263
Avg (commenters): 7.6250
Avg (participants): 6.6552
Avg (non-participants): 6.8396
Views since voting: 2387
Views during voting: 734
Votes: 403
Comments: 28
Favorites: 2 (view)

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AuthorThread
 06/12/2008 10:20:03 PM
Nice job Richard - A very wonderful location and a beautiful job of capturing night in RMNP.
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 06/11/2008 09:10:47 PM
one of my 10s; a real stunner!

CONGRATS on such a fine image!
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 06/11/2008 12:45:50 AM
This was my favorite of the star trail images in the challenge. Nearly a top 10!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/10/2008 04:02:10 PM
Awesome shot. Love the lines.
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 06/09/2008 04:38:26 AM
i have to give you props on doing this challenge on a high altitude scene..given the short span of time.

the snow covered mountains had made the photo unique, as compared to the rest.
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 06/08/2008 02:31:10 PM
I love this effect! Nice photo!
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 06/07/2008 07:13:20 PM
Never summer range? Looks like 45° latitude...can't wait to see the location.
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 06/07/2008 12:38:14 AM
Great capture. I really like the combination of star trails and mountains.
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 06/06/2008 11:28:53 AM
nice effects!
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 06/06/2008 03:29:59 AM
Wow, I admire you for staying out in that cold for this beautiful long exposure. I love how you can see distant city glow. Fantastic image!
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 06/05/2008 09:51:46 PM
beautiful balance between alpenglow and starglow!
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 06/05/2008 07:03:08 PM
snow capped mountains are one of my favorite things in photos.
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 06/05/2008 01:21:01 PM
The desolateness of this mountain range and the vastness of the sky are all extremely well captured. I would like to see more contrast between the ridgeline and the horizon.
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 06/05/2008 09:36:05 AM
Nice shot - interesting sky and foreground. 9 from me
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 06/04/2008 10:00:25 PM
Sweet - these colors are beautiful, as well as the directional movement of the stars.
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 06/04/2008 08:03:14 PM
Nice colors.
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 06/04/2008 07:26:36 PM
How could it be less then 10? Excellent!
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 06/04/2008 04:31:42 PM
Very good night shot!
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 06/04/2008 01:40:43 PM
Very nice, no, perfect fits it better. Really great, all aspects of it!
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 06/04/2008 09:35:06 AM
Nice photo. The mountains are a good balance to the star trails. The colours are good. Image may have benefited from a longer exposure (i.e. longer streaks) and perhaps a bit of an arc to the streaks.
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 06/04/2008 08:30:32 AM
AMAZING!
10 from me
would love to see this take the blue!!!

Kev
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 06/04/2008 08:08:14 AM
Good shot, the setting is impressive and the colour variation in the stars wis very good. Perhaps keeping the shutter open a bit longer would have improved the look by curving the stars more.
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 06/04/2008 06:54:18 AM
I like how you can still see the blacks and the snow on the mountains, it adds a little bit of texture to the photograph
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 06/04/2008 03:36:49 AM
Ohhh...what a perfect title for this image, this cold land that you captured so well! It's raining coldness.
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 06/04/2008 03:08:39 AM
Wonderful colors.
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 06/04/2008 01:33:07 AM
It's raining stars. GReat image.
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 06/04/2008 12:23:00 AM
ohh please..not again!!. THis is one of the best of the kind though.
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 06/04/2008 12:14:12 AM
wow...great place and well done
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