Galactic Pondering
We finally got out camping somewhere dark enough for me to attempt a Milky Way panorama. About 20 minutes after our campfire died out and the eyes finally became adjusted to the darkness, it was amazing how many stars were visible. Also amazing was how much more the camera could see with a long exposure than we could! This was taken along the Arkansas River near Ruby Mountain in Colorado, and though about 80 miles away, one can see Colorado Springs off to the east lighting up the horizon. The hillside in the foreground is lit up by a lone ranch house and its attendant porch light. Now that the process of creating such an image is less opaque, I'm interested to try light painting a more stimulating foreground...
This is a stitch of 4 overlapping landscape oriented shots.
Explored 2015-06-24
Galactic Pondering
We finally got out camping somewhere dark enough for me to attempt a Milky Way panorama. About 20 minutes after our campfire died out and the eyes finally became adjusted to the darkness, it was amazing how many stars were visible. Also amazing was how much more the camera could see with a long exposure than we could! This was taken along the Arkansas River near Ruby Mountain in Colorado, and though about 80 miles away, one can see Colorado Springs off to the east lighting up the horizon. The hillside in the foreground is lit up by a lone ranch house and its attendant porch light. Now that the process of creating such an image is less opaque, I'm interested to try light painting a more stimulating foreground...
This is a stitch of 4 overlapping landscape oriented shots.
Explored 2015-06-24