On the last night of an eight day camp in central Utah, I got the camera out to celebrate the only cloud free and windless night of the trip. I'm pretty tough on my gear, but 70 knot guts of sand are a bit outside my tolerance. Photography was (at most) a tertiary purpose for the trip, so the wind wasn't a huge problem, just an inconvience. As a precaution, I used the little hook on the bottom of my tripod to set a guy rope on a sand stake as an anchor and then stood very anxiously by with a large trash bag in case the wind storms that plagued us returned. My nerves could only handle the hour and a half it took to collect these images.
Greater background illumination via half moon in the west, full tree illumination was arranged by a gigantic campfire. The shapes of the cottonwoods silhouetted against the sky piqued my initial interest, but in the end the warm orange light against the blue sky was too much to resist.
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