Highlands Dreaming
After a day on the trail in the Virginia Highlands the crisp air and moonless sky yielded to a wonderful starry sky. At least at first. By the time I was bedding down for the evening on Wilburn Ridge a heavy dew was forming on everything. My lens was no exception. I felt fortunate to be able to salvage this image from what I thought surely was a lost night of shooting. I was able to clean up the files where it wasn't even visible but decided to include a little of it's soft focus effect to bring the memory back (at least for me). By morning the winds were howling up the mountain, driving with it a fog so thick it would condense on the inside of the tent and provide a gentile indoor (or in tent) rain that would strategically find a bare neck or ear to drop it's icy little gift upon. Surely it beats an alarm clock on a work day though.
489 stacked images 25 seconds at ISO 500 over 1 image of 25 seconds at ISO 5000 for the Milky Way. Roughly 3.5 hours of star trails with a view to the west.
Highlands Dreaming
After a day on the trail in the Virginia Highlands the crisp air and moonless sky yielded to a wonderful starry sky. At least at first. By the time I was bedding down for the evening on Wilburn Ridge a heavy dew was forming on everything. My lens was no exception. I felt fortunate to be able to salvage this image from what I thought surely was a lost night of shooting. I was able to clean up the files where it wasn't even visible but decided to include a little of it's soft focus effect to bring the memory back (at least for me). By morning the winds were howling up the mountain, driving with it a fog so thick it would condense on the inside of the tent and provide a gentile indoor (or in tent) rain that would strategically find a bare neck or ear to drop it's icy little gift upon. Surely it beats an alarm clock on a work day though.
489 stacked images 25 seconds at ISO 500 over 1 image of 25 seconds at ISO 5000 for the Milky Way. Roughly 3.5 hours of star trails with a view to the west.