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As I drove into town from the Jeep Cherokee shoot I noticed a big orange glow out towards my sisters property. I knew it could only be from a big fire, so I went out there to see if they were in danger.
Luckily the fire was a couple of valleys over and the wind was favourable to their location.

The sky was quite clear so I thought I'd try my hand at a quick (9 sec) time lapse with the idea to capture the fire and the stars in the nights sky...

http://youtu.be/3UCfDlzgUfU
Watch the above link in full screen mode at 720p to see the detail in the sky.

From those same photos I thought I'd try merging them into a star trails shot...



I'm reasonably happy with the star trails shot, but I'm not really a huge star trails fan. I prefer the shots that have lots of detail, but without the trails.
I enjoyed the time lapse. It was so easy to make in Lightroom. I'll definitely be trying time lapse again.

C & C appreciated as always.

I cannot get over that in just 9 seconds you could capture
such a star displacement (trail). Nevertheless, I think you
have a very beautiful and very different photograph. In a
simple three word statement "I love it!".

Thanks.
The time lapse is 9 seconds long. It's made up of just over 200 photos that each had a 10 second long shutter speed. There's no delay between the frames as I didn't have a remote with that capability. So the capture time is a little over 30 minutes.

Ahh - makes much more sense now Still you go a surprisingly full set of trails there - must have been pretty dark Adam

Yep. The bonus of living in the country.
It was around 1am when I did this with no sign of the moon.