Lunar Eclipse over Death Valley

As I thought about locations to photograph last Wednesday’s lunar eclipse, I kept coming back to the idea of putting sand dunes in the foreground. Dunes seemed appropriately lunar. So Claudia and I went to Death Valley, where, despite copious quantities of high clouds, I was able to capture this eclipse sequence over the Mesquite Flat Dunes.

This is, of course, a composite, representing a period of time between 2:50 and 6:30 a.m. as the moon moved through the sky and became eclipsed, the sky got darker, the stars came out, and then the dawn started to illuminate the scene. Although it’s a composite, I didn’t move the camera or change lenses during the whole sequence, so the moon positions are realistic. You can read the full story behind this photograph here:

https://www.michaelfrye.com/2018/02/04/lunar-eclipse-over-death-valley/

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