I spent a week in Utah shooting the night sky. I wandered a bit in the desert, discovering incredible locations, but the one that impressed me the most was surely Goblin Valley. The location is truly incredible: badlands, rocky walls, strange rocks, dry river beds... it seams to be on another planet. Especially at night. When the sun goes down, the sky (virtually without light pollution) is so dark that it seem like being in outer space, a feeling that the bare landscape only increases. I was very lucky in therms of conditions: while I was there there was a strong Airglow activity. Airglow, as Northern Light, is the result of sunlight interacting with the molecules in our atmosphere, and like Auroras, it colours the sky in green tones: the last touch to make the views of my pictures truly alien.

The Goblin Valley gets its name from the "hoodoos", the strange rock formations in the area. They cover a large portion of the Natural park, not far from the more hidden rocky part that I so intensely shot. The most famous "goblins" are the ones shaped like mushrooms. I played a lot with this strange rocks, trying to find the perfect subjects placed in the right direction under the milkyway. This time I decided to make the shoots more Earthly, adding my figure and some lightpainting. Mostly to show the scale of the rocks, but also to give more three-dimensionality and depth to the location.