Cold Arkansas workshop

Barn and Stars, originally uploaded by lefturn99.

Last weekend I attended a Tim Ernst workshop in northwest Arkansas. It was a waterfall and star trail workshop. When you sign up for a workshop in February, you have to know there is a chance the weather will be bad. It was. Saturday was over cast and spitting snow. Overcast is great for waterfalls but there hasn't been much rain and they weren't running that much. We did go to Falling Water Falls, which I have shot before.

It looked like the star trail part would be a bust but the clouds started moving out Saturday evening so we decided to get up at 3:30 and go shoot. We got up and the temp was 15 degrees and the wind was blowing. But the stars were beautiful. With no light polution and the air scrubbed clean by the snow, there were millions of stars visible. The Milky Way, which city dwellers rarely see, was very clear. We shot the stars while Tim "light painted the barn". Not technically a great shot, but it gives me tremendous inspiration for when the weather turns warmer.