SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Adrian Bradley
Location of Photo:
Black Mesa State Preserve, Black Mesa, Oklahoma
Date/Time of photo:
9:09pm
Equipment:
Canon 6D, Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L IS III Lens
Description:
The dinosaur footprints in the foreground are 150 million year old Allosaurus tracks. The galactic center shines in the distance. With no signs of human civilization in this photo, we get a glimpse of what it must have been like on Earth 150 million years ago on a clear night as darkness settles in. The goal of this image was to portray our night sky as a time machine. As stated in the first attempt, I attempted to recreate a scene that the Allosaurus leaving these tracks may have seen 150 million years ago. It's the closest thing we have to a time machine. This time I picked one of the images that captured how the ground and sky looks during the transition from nautical twilight to astronomical twilight. The Milky Way is a naked eye object during nautical twilight, and only gets brighter as 'day transforms into night.'
