Moonset Night at the Valley of Eternity. Landscape photograph by Luis Lyons, finalist in the Shoot The Frame Landscape photography award, December 2022

Finalist Landscape · December 2022

Moonset Night at the Valley of Eternity

This place is a part of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, a natural protected area in México, the photo shows a very special location, populated with dozens of millenary endemic plants known as 'Sotolines' (Beaucarnea gracilis) this plants are very long lived, the specimens in the photo can be more than two thousand years old. This five images panorama photo was taken at night, with a 40% moon, just enough to light the landscape and not enough to wipe out the Milky Way.