Nocturnal Rock Climbing 101

by Don Mercer

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Nocturnal Rock Climbing 101

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Don Mercer

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Photograph - Photograph

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While attending a nightscape workshop having Royce Bair, a noted nightscape artist, as our instructor, one night we drove from Moab to Double Arch within Arches National Park, Utah. This arch is impressive when viewed in the day, but it is breathtaking when seen at night with a starlit sky. Throw in the Milky Way, and the scene is without parallel. This image was captured after hiking under the arch and then climbing some sixty feet or so up the boulders and rocks that have, in previous times, fallen from the structure that stands today. The result is a view, when seated on the steep rock face, back through the arch looking toward the town of Moab, which is the source of the yellow light, referred to as light pollution, that may be seen past the nearly vertical rock formation outside the arch. A satellite may be seen moving from right to left just above the center of the arch. As information for photographers, this image was shot at 4:10 AM on April 21, 2015, using a Nikon D800e with a 14mm prime Rokinon lens at the following settings: ISO 6400; f/4; 0 EV; and 18 seconds exposure.

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April 16th, 2016

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