On a cold but clear night recently, I headed out to Scott to make another attempt at star trail photography. It's one of my favorite things to do, since it reminds me a bit of film photography and working in a darkroom. To capture the star trails moving across the sky requires the camera taking continuous photos for a few hours. You never know how it will turn out until you start combining all those pictures together in post (like watching a print start to form in the developer tray in the darkroom). It's fun, and doesn't require any smelly darkroom chemicals.
This shot was taken by a row of metal silos near Scott, looking north. I was out there for two hours taking pictures, but I ended up making a mistake and wasn't able to use all of those pictures (the lens fogged up in the cold weather). But here is the end result, with the stars slowly streaking across the sky above Scott...
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