Death Valley National Park, California, USA, 25 February 2020.
The smouldering crescent Moon floats in an ocean blue atmosphere above quiet, glowing dunes of sand and the red of the sunset has faded into the blue twilight.
The photographer hiked deep into the dunes and eventually found the foreground he had imagined for this shot. Once everything was assembled, he looked up and there hung a shining sliver of a crescent moon outlining its dark but visible face. This HDR/perspective blend integrates four images, all shot that evening with the same lens, and from the same tripod location.
The images were combined in Photoshop and together they effectively replicate the sublime scene the photographer witnessed that evening.
Photo by Jeffrey Lovelace/Astronomy Photographer of the Year
