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Another attempt at star trails. This was an idea I had for an assignment called "transportation," showing two modes: automobiles and the big blue marble we're all riding through space and time on.

approximately 220 - 30 second images shot over two hours, stacked in Photoshop and blended to reduce the harsh light of the automobiles passing by the camera.

The foreground is lit by headlights of passing vehicles. The treeline lit on the horizon is crossroad traffic.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Once again, the weather forecasters were wrong as we ran over to Rhode Island Saturday morning to one of our favorite spots, Beavertail State Park. So, with nothing going on in the sky to speak of, we walked around looking for potential compositions. This composition to me is great but incomplete. I can't wait to utilize this as my foreground in a great sky, it will make a fantastic vertorama. It's halfway there.

From the archives.

A vertorama, two horizontal images stitched vertically.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
~Mario Lemieux

Ahhh...home. Tougher shot than I expected, as the incline railcar moves quick. Anything below 1/50th of a second and it blurs pretty heavily. So, as sunset passed I had to bump up the ISO to get it in the shot clearly.

We had a good soaking rain the day before this photograph was taken. The last time I saw this waterfall earlier in the summer it was a trickle. It was flowing great after the storm, with the veil breaking up into three parts. You can only get this view of the waterfall after a good storm, so I was lucky in that respect.

The downside of this vantage point is there is almost a constant mist coming off of the falls flowing directly over the camera equipment, so I spent more time cleaning off the lens than shooting. Add to that, it was about 24 degrees out. It was a chilly walk back to the car after sitting in a mist for a couple of hours.

The falls are located in Ohiopyle State Park in Western Pennsylvania.