Above the Clouds
The Milky Way creeping up behind Cuyamaca Peak in the "Back Country" of San Diego.
According to Wikipedia Cuyamaca is "a Spanish corruption of the Kumeyaay ( Native American tribe of the San Diego Region ) phrase "'Ekwiiyemak", which means, according to Margaret Langdon's translation, "Behind the clouds".
I've gone hiking in this area many times and wanted to capture the milky rising above this peak that I see from so many vantage points in San Diego. I tried it last year but I miscalculated the time that the moon was dropping behind me in the west and so by the time the moon disappeared allowing enough light from the milky to show so I could shoot it , it had made its way to high into the sky. This year the conditions were favorable, so I decided to get up at 12:30 am and make the 1.5 hour drive out to this spot so I could capture the beginning of Milky Way season.
19 images stacked in Sequator for the sky and blended with 3 focus stacked images at a much lower ISO for the foreground.
Above the Clouds
The Milky Way creeping up behind Cuyamaca Peak in the "Back Country" of San Diego.
According to Wikipedia Cuyamaca is "a Spanish corruption of the Kumeyaay ( Native American tribe of the San Diego Region ) phrase "'Ekwiiyemak", which means, according to Margaret Langdon's translation, "Behind the clouds".
I've gone hiking in this area many times and wanted to capture the milky rising above this peak that I see from so many vantage points in San Diego. I tried it last year but I miscalculated the time that the moon was dropping behind me in the west and so by the time the moon disappeared allowing enough light from the milky to show so I could shoot it , it had made its way to high into the sky. This year the conditions were favorable, so I decided to get up at 12:30 am and make the 1.5 hour drive out to this spot so I could capture the beginning of Milky Way season.
19 images stacked in Sequator for the sky and blended with 3 focus stacked images at a much lower ISO for the foreground.