While my night photography group turned most of their attention to Mobius Arch, I set my camera on auto-pilot on a rocky knoll to photograph the apparently empty landscape of Alabama Hills. The star trails in this image were created from a stack of 37 4-minute exposures, each exposure at ISO 400 and f/2.8. The foreground was blended in at roughly 90% opacity, and consists of an HDR blend of three exposures made at ISO 64, f/22, with shutter speed varying between 0.3 and 3 seconds. I used my Zeiss 15mm f/2.8 throughout.

I think the coolest thing about night photography is never knowing what the camera will reveal—certainly more than the eye can see!