Last night I went out to Snowy Range in Wyoming in search of dark skies for the Perseid meteor shower. I wanted something special for the foreground and I knew the Snowies faced in the perfect direction to get this shot. I started shooting at 10pm and didn't stop until 5 am, I had to change my battery every 2 hours which made for a long night. The moon rose around 1am to light up the mountain range.
This is a composite of 23 images, 22 for the meteors/stars and 1 taken at sunrise for the foreground which was lightly blended in. I also corrected the orientation of the meteors to account for the rotation of the earth (this took forever!)
I had a great night which was made even better because I spent it with my newly adopted dog Emmie, she was a trooper!
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$ALEH 6 months ago | reply
Thank you for sharing this with us!
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literain1 6 months ago | reply
Awesome!
jfelege 6 months ago | reply
Amazing photo!
amolmn 6 months ago | reply
wow..amazing photo.. and thanks for the explanation of your process..that make it even more special
dicksoto 6 months ago | reply
Beyond amazing!!!
thomas23 5 months ago | reply
Awesome...!!
SHZimmerman 4 months ago | reply
Great Job!--I haven't done this sort of thing in years. Inspires me try it again!
Theresa* 4 months ago | reply
Very cool shot. Nice post processing!
benpearse 3 months ago | reply
This really is incredible David, brilliant work.
emirbayrak 2 months ago | reply
oh my god , amazing , perfect
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R Digi 2 months ago | reply
Incredible!
ms2thdr 2 months ago | reply
This is just an amazing image, worth every bit of work you put into it.
RainerHL 2 months ago | reply
I can image this taking a long time as the metoerites do not come down every 30 minutes or so. That would be easier if it did. In the end it all paid off. People often do not appreciate what goes in to producing work like this. Great effort!!
ron rudolph 6 weeks ago | reply
Awesome !
Henry Jaffe 6 weeks ago | reply
Well done, worth the effort!
WMS53 5 weeks ago | reply
Fantastic image!
Veke47 5 weeks ago | reply
Stunning. My brother just sent this along with about a dozen other pictures. It was titled Pictures of 2012. Congrats.
rzernitsky 4 weeks ago | reply
Wonderful image thanks for sharing- Things I would never see with my naked eye
Nizaad 2 weeks ago | reply
One of THE most beautiful photographs I have ever laid my eyes on.