A bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains.
I demonstrated creating a star trails photo in a +Landscape Photography Show hangout on G+ recently, using the free StarStaX app: http://youtu.be/YWtkgD4ofMo?t=17m43s
Since mid-June a new version 0.60 of StarStaX has added a "comet" mode to show the direction of rotation of the stars, as shown below.
I've covered the photography side of capturing star trails photos as well:
How To Take Star Trails Photos
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/05/creating-star-trail-images.html
With all of the starry night photos +Vic Gundotra has been posting lately, surely it's only a matter of time before he tries star trails!
A link to watch my next appearance on the Landscape Photography Show will be posted to that page on Google+ shortly before my appearance on October 8 at 7pm:
https://plus.google.com/106426215970067085617/posts
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The ancient trees still control the stars.
Just beautiful!
that's sooo cool !
Love the gorgeous star trails!! This is perfect!! We loved having you on the show and look forward to more great shows with you!! It's my pleasure to share your amazing photo to the +Landscape Photography page! Check out all the great photos there including yours!!
Nice
Lovely trail
Magnifique
+100 amazing..
i was wondering how to take that trail shoot..
thanks for sharing..
outstanding shot
Superb shot:-)
I want to know how you do this efect do you set camera on omen special seting cause I whant to play with that camera I got learn I took some small town dads year book teacher so he thought me on a old canon I can do dark room stuff I like it most.
Simply Beautiful…TREES! !!
LOVE THIS !!!!
wow
Brilliant work!
Nice work man!
Awesome +Jeff Sullivan!
I imagined that the comet tail would go the other way…?Nevermind. I spent a second and figured as you look North the celestial bodies set to the west which is left…
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Wooow . Thanks
great
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This is fantastic. Makes me dizzy just looking at it. Except for the damn wire hanging overhead like a divider ! The other light line may be a satellite, at lower right near horizon.
Sir, I am your fan, i like to your photographs so much, tank for such a wonderful photographs
Very beautiful, and also interesting,such a mystery,but the scene is unremarkable.
This to me is an awareness of reality.
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I like it.
Mind exercise photo. Outstanding.
Thank you for your reply
Mind exercise photo . Outstanding.
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great pictures
More excitement to learn how you edit this on the +Landscape Photography Show October 8, 2013 7:00 pm PDT