Land of the Rising Moon by Jim Patterson

Thursday, 25th February 2010

Land of the Rising Moon – Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, California

by Jim Patterson

As the moon rose, I got low to the ground and positioned my camera to capture the moon as it got pinched between the arch and the rock below which helped create the burst. I tried lots of settings, and as this was my first time trying such a style of photography, I can’t honestly say ISO 800 was the best choice. The D300 is ok at this ISO, but some liberal noise reduction on the sky was used.
Nikon D300
Tokina 10-17mm fisheye @ 10mm
30sec @ f8, ISO 800
light painted with red LED flashlight, No HDR

Jim Patterson

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21 Comments

Jeff Swanson Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Nice work, Jim!
Mesquite Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 1:20 am
Beautiful!
mike Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 3:40 am
A very nice scene.
paul whitton Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 5:06 am
fully just looks like a sculpture! isn’t to world amazing!
Anurag Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Sublime!
Pauline Jones Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Cool picture; well done.
Chris Boynton Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:04 am
great art piece – well done
Neily Curtin Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Well done, good planning resulting in nice picture.
JRKyle Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 11:08 am
One great capture here Jim…
I have done this too… Did it years ago as a cave explorer. I “Painted” the cave walls with light as by ’scanning’ the areas that I wanted to be lit. I do this now with high powered portable lamps (battery powered) on trees and land-scapes. The weather must be cool as to have no bugs flying about the frame.

This photograph of your is one fine bit of work.
Wanda Krack Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Landscape light painting. It’s beautiful! Well thought-out!
Ellen Empson Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Exceptional artistic creativity here, well done!!!!
Technical detail right on spot!
Renee Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
The sun is peaking in at you and saying hello! Excellent shot!
Marie Dunphy Harding Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
You captured a great moment, the stars are visible, too! Nice work.
Adam Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Love the contrast. Great shot!
Grete Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Fantastic shot! Nature never ceases to amaze. You’ve captured it surprisingly! Congratulations and greetings
Ursula Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
At first glance it looked to me like a hand, with fingers bent and the moon was in the cup of the index finger and bent-in thumb. Or was it just me seeing this?? Nice shot Jim.
Ken Bernstein Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
to Jim Patterson:

Sumptuous sculpture shot. Joshua Tree is a magical place! It is one of a few places in CA that has some of the enchantment of New Mexico.

I would love to see more of your shots on Joshua Tree. Do you have a web site I can visit?

Ken
Su Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
If you look under Jims name at the top ‘photos’
thats the link to his flikr site, some real good ones on there too.
Su Says:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Sorry did mean to say what a clever shot this is well worth the wait for that moonburst.
Katherine Lee Strassburg Says:
February 27th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
I agree with Ursula that one can see human body parts here, but I was thinking more of the dance group Pilobolus who contort their merging bodies into amazing pictures or letters of the alphabet. Lovely composition, and I love the rich colors.
Sparts Says:
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Yeah, very well done. Most interseting shot I’ve seen on here for a while