Paint Mines
Last night I was able to meet a friend at Paint Mines for some night astro photography. To visit this location at night required a $100 permit, but afforded us the entire place to ourselves. We arrived during the blue hour and began meandering down different paths to try and find rocks and hoodoo formations in sandstone that we could shoot with a rising MW in the background. On the way in to the center of Paint Mines I took some sunset pictures with some angry storm clouds. Once we were in the small washes I feel like we navigated nearly all of them and I used GPS Tracker to help set waypoints at sights we thought would be good for later. Once darkness started to fall I felt like we had travelled a lot of distance, but didn't have the ideal rocks that we'd seen in Mike Pach's workshops. We needed to find THE LOCATION and take some test shots. Paint Mines w Milky Way We did find a small "canyon" that I liked, but once we took a test shot we discovered power lines a...