I took a video the night I shoot these images, some parts are dark when my flashlight is off but when my little headlight is on you can see the desert floor as I hike back to camp.
I mentioned in the video that I started taking the time lapse series around moonset. The time lapse went on for 3 hours and this is a layered shot of 2 of those shots, one at moonset of the dunes and another later of the night sky when the stars are most visible.
![Milky Way Eureka Dunes, Death Valley Prominent view of milky way over Eureka Dunes Death Valley, Take at approximately 2am.](https://beforethecoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DSC0833_postLR_noShad.jpg)
Minimal light pollution allows a dramatic view of the milky way. This image is a composite, one just before moonset of the landscape and one after moonset of the milky way.
Here is the result of the time lapse series.
![StarTrail_Eureka Dunes Death Valley Star Trails from multiple exposures make colorful light lines arcing through the night sky.](https://beforethecoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/StarTrail_Eureka.jpg)
Star trails become dramatic when created from several hundred exposures taken over a several hours during a moonless night.
Wow – these are incredible. I love how you created the “invisible” into visible – such clarity, slow-time. Thanks, as always, for sharing this!