Stairway to Heaven

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    A single still frame from a 571-frame, 3-axis, motion-controlled astro timelapse dolly sequence we shot last night at Tapestry Arch, Arches National Park.

    This area around Tapestry Arch is stunningly beautiful at night. My intern Dustin and I kicked it under this spectacular sky, Pink Floyd blasting, cold beers on ice, until 2:30AM, as the camBLOCK moco system and Canon 5D2 tracked the Milky Way across this brilliant sky and landscape.

    Follow the production of my debut film "TimeScapes" here: twitter.com/timescapes

    Bill Ratcliffe, Chaos2k, m ike, and 348 other people added this photo to their favorites.

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    1. Jim | jld3 photography 33 months ago | reply

      it must begin to seem redundant, but this is awesome. can't wait to see the end result.

    2. kth_friend 33 months ago | reply

      a great still... I have some of your time lapse stuff on my computer...
      it is my desire to try to replicate some of your work on our terrain.. lofty goals perhaps... but your work is inspiring..

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    3. chris'pic's51 33 months ago | reply

      OMG.. this is totaly sick.

    4. John Cordes 33 months ago | reply

      Great work Tom. What was your lightsource for the arch?

    5. Tom Lowe @ Timescapes 33 months ago | reply

      Just a small LED camping lantern from Walmart.

    6. Summer.♥ 32 months ago | reply

      omg omg this is magical!

    7. John Cordes 32 months ago | reply

      Perfect! Keep up the great work! Don't forget to invite your friends to see your film when its finished!

    8. jah~ 32 months ago | reply

      Astrophotog of the year? Not too shabby at all...

    9. Scott Barlow 32 months ago | reply

      Incredible! Love it!
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    10. DrKanab 28 months ago | reply

      What an amazing night this was!

    11. Milad Ghotbi 28 months ago | reply

      wow , very good .

    12. motleypixel 26 months ago | reply

      Tom, wonderful capture. I have this gear: " Wes, my settings were: Canon 5D Mark II, EF 16-35mm II at 16mm f/3.2, ISO 3200 for 33 seconds" My question is do you see what you want to capture or does the captured frame see more and if so then do you have to use some galaxy knowledge to know where to position the frame?

    13. BudgetAstro 26 months ago | reply

      Breathtaking!

    14. Jakub Sisak [deleted] 25 months ago | reply

      Fantastic! Relatively new to Flickr; I would like to see the EXIF data for this shot. Not sure how to access it.

    15. Ricardo Dinis 23 months ago | reply

      stunning! Eager to watch the end result!

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