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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WMS53 5 weeks ago | reply
Fantastic image!
Veke47 4 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 9 days ago | reply
One of THE most beautiful photographs I have ever laid my eyes on.