The Well

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

My favorite poet certainly didn't have such a luxurious fountain in mind, when he wrote those words in his famous novella "The Little Prince", but when I saw it during my visit to Death Valley National Park in May, I knew I had to return to shoot it with the rising Milky Way.

 

EXIF

Canon EOS R, astro-modified

Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2

IDAS NBZ filter

iOptron SkyTracker Pro

Sky:

Stack of 6x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 5x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered

Foreground:

Focus stack of 5x 4s @ ISO100 during blue hour

Done