Utah Timescape

This piece is from a night last fall camped beneath the night sky in southern Utah on the strange and otherworldly rock formations known as the Candy Cliffs. This is a combination of 140 exposures depicting the passage of time and rotation of the Earth for 1.5 hours, and then looped in reverse. The stars in this frame trace three paths in the sky—those located along the celestial equator follow a straight line, while the others located on each side of the equator curve away.

3240 x 2160