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This composite image is created by blending two meticulously stitched panoramas, each composed of 7 individual frames. The foreground panorama, captured during the blue hour on Socotra Island, features the iconic blooming Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) standing resiliently above the rugged coastline. The soft ambient light of twilight highlights the intricate textures of the rocky landscape and the delicate blossoms.
The sky panorama, taken under a dark, moonless night, comprises another set of 7 frames that reveal the sweeping arc of the Milky Way in striking detail.
By combining these two 7-frame panoramas, the final image merges terrestrial rarity with celestial grandeur—offering a seamless vision where the mystical beauty of Earth meets the vastness of the cosmos.
Created for KP Treat This # 339
Thanks to Brillianthues for starter image
All work done in Photoshop 2024 and DDT2D
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For me, it is heaven touching earth or man's striving for oneness with the Infinite!
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I was more than happy to undertake a 4 am stint to capture this image of Corfe Castle with a Milky Way backdrop. The level of light pollution from the village was far less than I expected. Montage of two exposures for the sky and for the f/g which was pretty dark. Passing cars did light it up but not to my liking so it was 4min @ ISO 1600. As well as a bright passing satellite I might have caught a stray Lyrid meteor.
My thanks to Tony Cowburn, Dorset 'Star Chasers' forum on Facebook for the inspiration for this shot.
Looking at the south celestial pole.
About 65 minutes worth of shots each with 20 second long exposure and about a 5 second interval in between each shot.
I loaded all the photos into Photoshop as layers and set the blend mode to 'Llghten'. That caues all the layers to form into the star trail.
I also took one light-painted photo of the stone work so I overlaid the light-painted stone work part into the final image.
I didn't bother with gaps or aircraft lights..
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In creating this digital composition, I wanted to explore the tension between our urban constructions and the cosmic immensity that hangs above us each night. Starting with a photograph of a modern building in Toulouse whose rigorous geometry struck me, I imagined this edifice opening like a curtain onto the celestial spectacle.
The black and white treatment allowed me to unify these two distinct realities - human architecture and the lunar body - into the same visual language where only forms, textures, and light matter. I deliberately accentuated the perfect symmetry to create this sensation of precarious balance between order and chaos, between the constructed and the uncontrollable.
What particularly interested me in this fusion was playing with scales and perceptions: how a building, imposing at our human scale, can suddenly seem minuscule against a crescent moon which, despite its modest apparent size in our sky, actually represents an immense celestial body.
Through this creation, I sought to evoke that vertiginous sensation we sometimes feel when, walking through our gridded and planned cities, we suddenly look up at the night sky and become aware of our tiny place in the universe. It's this collision between our everyday world and the cosmic infinite, between the urban grid and the natural curve of the moon, that I wanted to capture in this image.
“I feel like God is playing tricks on me, got a fix on me. Feel the weight of the world like I got a brick on me. Had a dance with the devil and he got a grip on me. I’m just trying to get to heaven, hope you got a ticket for me. 🎵.
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Marie Lou and her friend talk while walking back through a flower field before night fall
Friend : Did you ever wondered what we are for ?
Marie Lou : Hmmm... ?
Friend : Yeah, I mean why do we exist, why does anything exist in the first place...
Marie Lou : I don't know... All I know is that we have to fulfill our goals and dreams about what we currently know about the world
Friend : Totally, to go forward in our world, we need to accomplish goal, but are they real ? Or are we just a bit of imaginary ?
Marie Lou : I think we are all imaginary, our minds, our reality, our perception, nothing could be real. All locked behinf the curtain of stimulus of mind
Friend : Right...
Marie Lou : *sigh* Don't be troubled (Marie Lou smiled gently), let just our false reality be replaced by our dreams
Friend : (smile back at Marie Lou) Yeah, maybe one day we will figure it out
Marie Lou : That would be great ! Or at least I hope so. Do you wish to look at the stars with me ?
Friend : You bet !
The two friends lying down in the flower bed, staring at the night sky discussing about daily activities and theories before falling asleep under the slight summer breeze.
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I look at this, and I'm concerned I've over edited it. Even so, I like it, and it fits with what was in my head.
Nikon Z6, 11mm and 18mm Tubes, Petzval 55 f/1.7 MK II
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