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The star trails (in comet-like tails)

The Milky Way: Second and third images are the same shot with different exposures processed. Let see which version you deem better. Thanks

Came to the main mission and the most exciting and challenging part of this trip -- night sky shooting... Again I failed with under-exposure settings. As so many have indicated, using both viewfinder and Live View in dark nights has often been difficult to validate or prove test shots. In my...

A bird:

The campsite: Sonora Pass: (pano from iphone) More scenic shots:

Sun setting, for the day...

Some strange, interesting, and colorful living organisms were found all over the rocks (they are not paints!)

Finally, in the late afternoon, arrived at our wilderness campsite near the Pass. It's about 9500 ft elevation and wasting no time, went hiking up 200 ft higher to explore the mountain top view (can see from the photos that camera sat pretty flat on the tripod, no up angle needed :). It's windy...

Then a storm hit mountain tops:

Change scene:

This is my first learning trip outside and far away from my living place -- to the wild countryside of high mountain area (~9500 ft) in NorCal, the Sonora Pass (and neighboring area). Photo gears: Nikon D3500 with kit lenses (18-55mm, 70-300mm), tripod, extra batteries, iPhone. Trip length: 5...

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