Goblin Valley and Factory Butte, Utah

In May 2024 my good buddy Josiah joined me on another adventure, this time driving 1,200 miles through Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. For me, this was a clean-up trip, aiming to photograph a number of quite remote locations that have been on my bucket list for a long while. Our first stop was Goblin Valley State Park, a small park full of crazy looking formations -- very well named! After a few hours of sleep at a local motel in Caineville we got up before 3am and did some night sky photography. This is a wonderful area for dark skies, and we were surprised by moonrise around 4am, yielding some steller light. At sunrise, I did drone photography of Factory Butte, then we visited the aptly named Moon Overlook nearby.