My oldest son and I spent a few days in Joshua Tree National Park in southern California the last week of March, 2018. While exploring one of the less visited areas, we spotted a dead tree that we immediately knew presented numerous photo opportunities. We returned to this tree on two evenings to photograph it, capture stars and star trails with the tree as fore ground.
My son referred to the tree as the “ghost tree”. I thought it looked more like the “grim reaper tree”.
In addition to the star trails, numerous air plane paths are also apparent.