It had been a while since Josh and I had done some night shooting, so while we were in Tehachapi for Austin & Heather’s wedding, we stopped to take some night photos of the windmills.  Seeing them up close in the moonlight, whirring and creaking all around us, was a mysterious, alien feeling.

Interestingly, all of the long exposures with the moving blades in the foreground had this nebulous cloud in the stars around it that wasn’t visible to the naked eye. I’m guessing that the moving air actually bent the light coming into my camera from the stars beyond.  Maybe someone smarter than me can tell me why that would happen!

Only a couple of them were motionless, which provides a good context for the movement of the rest.