I didn’t sleep for 24 hours. The shoot began at 11pm on the 18th, I returned home at 5:30am on the 19th; post processing began and wrapped around 7am.

After a long hiatus from shooting nightscape images, I decided to venture out to capture this once in a lifetime event. I stood in awe as the cosmos performed an eclipse that reached near 100% totality. According to NASA, it will remain the longest partial lunar eclipse for 648 years until February 8, 2669 (3 hours, 30 minutes, and 2 seconds). There will be a longer total lunar eclipse next year on November 8, 2022. After analyzing at several potential compositions, thanks to the light of the full moon, I landed on this one. In addition to the eclipse, it features two of my favorite pillars in the park as well as the infamous Camel Rock present in the distance.

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