moonbow

I captured this in the summer of 2018 with Jim Fox. It was my second attempt to line up a lunar rainbow on upper Yosemite Falls with the Milky Way stretching over the scene. There are a limited number of nights during the year where there is water in the falls, enough light to form a moonbow...

Well, after I got back home I wasn't going to even process these Upper Yosemite Fall moonbow shots with the Milky Way in it. I met Kyle up there, and the shooting locations to avoid trees were very limited. Kyle and Alejandro got there first, and their spot was the best position to shoot from...

Yosemite Falls, lunar rainbow, and Milky Way from my quick trip to Yosemite on Wednesday with Jim.

I shot this scene last year and decided I wanted to give it another try. I used photo pills to find a night with the moon a little less full and a little higher in the sky than my previous attempt so I could get a darker sky. I drove up to Yosemite Wednesday afternoon with my friend Alejandro...

Moonbow and Milky Way at Upper Yosemite Falls, single shot lit by the setting moon.

I took this at the end of June, after using Photopills and other tools to figure out when a partial moon would be in a good spot to create a moonbow while the Milky Way filled the sky. This is a single frame.