Devil's Tower - A Different Perspective

[Colorado_CJ]

I just got home yesterday from a cross country motorcycle trip.  Stacked up over 2500 miles and had a lot of fun, got to see lots of stuff and a lot of relatives as well. 

My first stop was Devil's Tower, Wyoming.  About 370 miles from home and a great place to camp. 

That night, I rode up a dirt road to the back of Devils Tower and hiked up a little hill.   

Here's what I took a little after midnight on a moonless night.  This little image doesn't do it justice.  Looks quite a lot nicer on my large calibrated editing monitor at full size!

Hope you like it.

Devils-Tower-small by Colo CJ, on Flickr

[MattBurt]

Love it! My kind of shot. Both being a wide astro shot and a non-typical view of a place everyone knows. Nice work.

[Rajan Parrikar]

Love it! My kind of shot. Both being a wide astro shot and a non-typical view of a place everyone knows. Nice work.

+1

The graphic 'foreground' makes it a non-typical Milky Way photo.

[francois]

Combining astro and landscape works perfectly and the result is spectacular. Also, the monument seems more magical than under a "normal" light.
Bravo!

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

+1 to all the previous comments.

Truly spectacular. This would look great in a 4'x8' print.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Beautiful.

[Alan Klein]

Reminds me of the very good science fiction film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"   Nice shot.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=close+encounters+of+the+third+kind+1977&docid=608004345114486673&mid=4C66AEB688B4D22B93444C66AEB688B4D22B9344&view=detail&FORM=VIREHT