This was my second ever attempt at photographing star trails, and the first from a dark site. This image is a composite of two photos, one for the foreground and a second for the sky. Rebekah light painted the rocks with a flashlight to add some interest to the photo.
This was taken at the Paint Mines Open Space in Calhan, Colorado, with a a Canon 70D and and a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X116 Pro DX lens. There's an airport nearby, so you can see a few planes passing through the shot despite my best efforts to Photoshop most of them out of the photo.
