Goblin Valley State Park

Caption---- Gobin Valley, Utah, USA
The sky this day brought the goblins to life.
The Goblins, in Goblin Valley State Park (Utah).
I got up at 4am to shoot the Milky Way over Goblin Valley State Park in Utah, but that was not very successful. So I went back to the truck and made coffee with the Jetboil on the tailgate and waited for the sun the start peaking over the horizon, It was worth the wait. I knew that there were clouds around as they had been blocking my attempts to gat pictures of the stars. This photo is actually six photos taken with a Sony a6000 and a manual focus 12mm lens in panorama stitched together with Lightroom, It turned out great. Time to warm up now, it's still chilly in the desert. The little white dot on the lower right in the sky is the moon rising ahead of sunrise. It’s over 153mb so I can only post the low resolution here. Thanks for looking.
Taken with just a flashlight, these hoodoos are sentinels all over this valley.

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