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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Milky Way over the desert in Utah: pictures by Bret Webster (13Pics)

The Milky Way stretches across the night sky behind a rock arch in Arches National Park, Utah. Bret Webster uses the night skies of the national parks of his home state of Utah as his canvas to create images that highlight the relative insignificance of the Earth in the cosmos.

A long fragile arch in Arches National Park, Utah backdropped by the Milky Way galaxy

The Milky Way galaxy is glimpsed above a slot canyon in the San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah

The Holy Ghost Panel rock painting in the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park in San Juan, Utah, with the Milky Way in the background

The Milky Way over a collection of hoodoos in Goblin Valley National Park in Green River, Utah

The Milky Way rises above the famous Landscape Arch with very clear air after a cold November storm in the Arches National Park, Utah

An alien landscape at Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah

Ancient Barrier Canyon Style style pictographs with the Milky Way to the right. Barrier Canyon Style describes a distinctive style of rock art which appears mostly in Utah.

The Milky Way seen through the Double Arch, a close-set pair of natural arches in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah

A slot canyon in the San Rafael Swell of Utah is silhouetted against the Milky Way

A beautiful Milky Way complements an assortment of Anasazi Native American petroglyphs including a centipede in Utah

The Milky Way is pictured in Arches National Park on a particularly clear night in Utah

Bret Webster, 51, photographer of the Galactic Desert series

2 comments:

Rand said...

This is great ! Unique and well thought out !

Anonymous said...

How can I get some of these pics from the photographer? I'll pay!