Stoked to finally reveal and add Grizzly Canyon Glow to my artwork portfolio, an image I created/captured in December of 2022! This is a 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 . Swipe to view my test exposure. This photograph took 2-3 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 this idea came to mind. Next I had to wait, I would need a huge winter storm to stack these trees without wind, and an untouched foreground with no ski tracks in it. Finally conditions aligned in December 2022, and I invested three exhausting and painful nights. Waiting hours on end for clouds to clear, one of the nights not ...