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Pouring into Jump Creek Falls
The Galaxy appears to pour itself into the water fall at Jump Creek near Marsing, Idaho.
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Episode 8: The last in a series of Season One. It was a challenge of alignment and timing to get this shot. I needed to find my way up a half-mile trail in order to arrive and setup by 1:30 a.m. at this exact spot where the Milky Way would align perfectly with the top of the water fall.
Goal #1: Don’t die.
Goal #2: Get the photo
Goal #3: Don’t get arrested doing it (after hours on BLM land)
Good news, I didn’t die and I was there in time to capture the moment when the Milky Way passed across the top of the falls. It moves surprisingly quickly across the sky when there is such a narrow window of view. I was there about an hour early to setup and took about 80 photos over the course of a few hours – Yes, this effort takes a long time… The photos that I took before and after this exact shot have the Milky Way off-center by a few inches (on the photo) showing that for every 2 minute exposure, it’s moving about an inch on your screen which makes it a challenge.
Thankfully there were no bears or dragons to deal with when I got to the falls, just a little desert rat who came by to say hello.
- Canon 5D with 14mm lens
- Sky: 4 stacked, tracked exposures at 85-seconds
- Foreground: Two exposures of 3 minutes and 30 seconds