Joshua Tree National Park in the desert of southern California is where I first began to photograph the night sky. In the autumn of 2021, I returned to the dark skies of Joshua Tree once again to photograph the stars from the unique landscape of the Mojave Desert. This image features part of the Milky Way, from Canis Major, through Orion and Taurus, up to Perseus. This region of the night sky is full of so much nebulosity and dust that can be revealed using the power of long exposure photography and imaging stacking (a process used to reduce noise/grain and increase real details). I shot the scene as a panorama, with 4 stacked panels for the sky, and 2 stacked panels for the foreground. The sky exposures were taken using a star tracker, with each panel being a stack of five 2-minute exposures (for a total of 10 minutes per panel, and 40 minutes total for all sky panels).