Looking up into the dark Wyoming night sky, all the stars in the Milky Way where shining so brightly it looked like white paint had been splashed across the sky from horizon to horizon. I blinked my eyes a couple times to bring the entire scene into better focus. After all, it was 4 in the morning, and I had gotten a grand total of 3 hours of sleep before finding myself in the middle of a 200,000-acre ranch in eastern Wyoming.
Trekking across the open sage brush landscape in the dark of night is always a bit of a thrill. About 20 minutes later I arrived at a non-descript location in the middle of nowhere. I picked a spot near some low growing sage brush and sat down with a small ground chair (flat on the ground) and set up my tripod and camera. Knowing that getting close to my subject will be a challenge I mounted my 800 mm lens on the tripod. I used a camouflage fabric covering to conceal my camera and myself with only the front few inches of my camera lens poking out.
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