Grizzly Canyon Glow ✨ Two minute, single frame exposure with aerial lighting on the trees via light painting with a powerful headlamp attached to a drone. The yellow light you see is light pollution from the townofaltaut and saltlakecity_utah . It’s important for me to stress these days how much work goes into capturing my best work. This photograph took 3 years to conceive, plan, and pursue, roughly 50 hours total. First back in 2019 scouting locations for perfect compositions. Then returning to shoot sunrise imagery in 2020. In 2021, I began to utilize aerial light painting techniques, and that’s when the idea to illuminate this came to mind. Next I had to wait, I would need a huge winter storm to stack these trees without wind, I would also need an untouched foreground with no ski tracks in it. Finally conditions aligned in December of 2022, and I invested three absolutely freezing nights. Waiting hours on end for clouds to clear, one of the nights not even pulling out my camera…...