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This is fantastic mate, brilliant work!!! wow

Another amazing piece of work!

great shot again jared!!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing the details with us!

Magic

This is a ripper. Shouldn’t you be at work?

Fantastic work Jared!!!

I’m Awestruck!

great shot, Jared! is the high ISO mandatory for getting enough light on the star trails?

this is amazing

Great stuff Jared!

Wonderful work Jared – inspirational – thanks for sharing info :)

That works!

Just brilliant Jared – inspired composition with the boulders.

Great stuff Jared, ...very nice indeed.
Just FYI there’s a timer/controller for the 40D called a Canon TC-80N3 that allows you to use the camera’s bulb mode to get exposures longer than 30 seconds and also take multiple shots.
It’s a good way to get away from the higher ISO settings for these star trail shots.

awesome shot… the composition is fantastic!

Amazing work Jared. Well done.

Wonderful work Jared, it turned out just how we imagined. Well worth the climb eh!

interesting treatments

wow,this is brilliant mate,super shot

This is quite original in its composition, adding an extra dimension of interest to an already great scenario.

Well worth the effort Jared,brilliant shot

Excellent Jared, I’ve never tried anything like this myself. Well done.

Fantastic, very geometric image!

This is a stunning piece Jared. Brilliant work…thank you for sharing it :)

Incredible work Jared!!!!!!.....It sounds like a lot of work to achieve this!!!

Excellent work :)

Damn Jared. The stars are amazing up there hey? This is great :-)

amazing shot :)

This is so cool, asked my wife to marry me on the Horn. Totally love your use of the foreground rocks really makes this star trail special. Really wonderful work Jared, inspiring.

Brilliant work here Jared…must do this one day.

Superb image! Excellent work!

out of this world alright brilliant image Jared

Another stunner Jared!!

Stunning work Jazz!!

Excellent work Jared …

Mind-blowing! Thanks for sharing how you did it.

astonishing work! outstanding
:))

awesome awesome awesome…
even without the star trails, your composition on this one just rocks…
it really rocks, jared…

and congratulations… featured !!!

A superb image Jared!!

Really amazing work!

Beautiful image, really well done.

Brilliant! Amazing! Fantastic!

Facinating and so well done!

that’s a great effect. the stones look ominous.

Aweesome work mate! But I can’t help but think Jared, did you choose f4 for any particular reason?

Great work Jared, love the positioning of the southern celestial pole between the boulders, works a treat!!

The rocks make a great foreground to contrast the star trails; very dynamic.

Looks like an abstract image Jared…..almost space ageish…and like your looking out at the solar system…so cool…

incredible Jared!!!!!!! so creative!

This is your best startrail shot yet Jared. Well done.

Startrails are like lightning shots. You could never get bored of taking them and looking at them. I find this time of the year not a very good time to take startrails as the sky is always hazy. Around easter is the time.
Keep them coming Jared. We all love looking at them

simply amazing.

dare I admit “I’m a Trekkie” so this really grabs me!!! Brilliant work mate!

Simply outstanding, what great composition to match the trails.

Amazing shot! I love it. :)

I never once thought to just keep taking the picture with a 30sec exp. I never understood how people do it for 10mins. Is that all there is to it or is there actually a way to set it that long?

Beautiful shot, btw. :)

Ohhh, good to know. Thanks for the reply!

wonderful image/no ordinary photograph

This whole series has been wonderful Jared. Cant wait til I get to go shooting with you guys so that you can teach me some of the amazing techniques you all use…

Awesome star trails!! I think the best I have seen.

Very, very nice image Jared. I thought it was Stonehenge at first…

STUNNING

Excellent shot. Brilliantly done!

This is excellent, curious as to why you used such a high ISO though.

You should be really pround of yourself, this is a wonderful capture. Great composition and patience in pulling this type of shot off. Keep up the good work!

“pround” ... I meant proud :)

That’s one (well, many actually!) amazing image Jared!!! Excellent work!

Oh incredible framing of the celestial point dude!!

wow..absolutely amazing! love the composition

This image has a real sense of magic and breaking down of time

AWESOME!!! timed exposures are too cool. Love how you lit the rocks up too!!! one of my favorites!

Well thats just breathtaking.

Brilliant!

So great!

This is just fabulous Jared. A perfect clear night you seem to have had and the lighting and positioning of the rocks is just inspired. I like how the sky transends between white on the horizon to the deepest dark blue of the night too.

I was just going to ask how you did this but I seemed to hit a button and there was the instructions..LOL Even w/them I’m sure there is no way I will be able to do this. I guess I will just enjoy yours! Well done!!

wow, what an incredible image. The composition is out of this world and the stars….actually quite speechless.

very cool ~ like spin art of the stars :) xx

An awesome piece of work and a huge investment of time. Well done Sir!

Great photo!

stunning…love it

Hola Jared!
I have been dying to try this out and you have just given me the inspiration I need.
You have chosen a very dramatic scene among the rocks and composed the shot very well.
111 frames eh? I’m glad I have a 4Gb card!
GB
Dennis

Beautiful work Jared. Looks magical!

phew! mindblowing!

Brilliant work. Worth all the patience and hard work:-))

Outstanding image.

Brilliant !

Outstanding shot love the comp here, well done !!

Sensational work, Jared. Well done. An instant fave.

I keep coming back to this shot! It is inspiring!

OMG i soooo want to do a star trail. But i dont have a remote shutter release yet. This is awesome. great comp

Awesome. Thanks. I would also like some help with choosing an ND grad filter. I havent a clue. lol

whoa! that is so awesome! i’ve been trying to do star trails but it never comes out!

This is simply stunning – I come back to it time and time again. Amazing.

Wow, that’s really amazing, I like this alot!

thanks everyone :-)

fantastic work!

This is an awesome shot Jared

Wonderful composition

This is awesome Jared! I have a question though, how come you (and others I’ve seen) use multiple 30 second exposures rather than setting the camera to bulb for a long time?

Very powerful and seductive.

Not sure if we have commented this shot before Jared – can´t imagine that we didn´t really!!!
What a really, really fantastic shot. Exceptional!

Fantastic image and the treatment is amazing !
Nicely done :-))

Fabulous foreground!

Awesome work, love the POV!

breathtaking Jared..wow

wow this is a magical image !

Another fantastic shot.

Man you truly had to work for this image, BUT WELL WORTH IT…. absolutely brilliant!!!!

Brilliant night photography, it is beautiful!

Another gorgeous shot. I can’t wait to give your “tutorial” a go! Thanks :)

Whoaaa, fantastic shot!!

Lovely work!!!

Stunning work!!

Prizewinner!!!

nice to get the south celestial pole in that frame… well done

Wonderful shot Jared, I saw the shapse and knew the rocks instantly. The Horn is one of my favourte places.