More of an experiment than a carefully crafted picture
I took a shot at IISAC one night without checking focus, and it was out of focus but the bloated stars and milky way looked quite nice. I forgot about it, fixed my focus and carried on.
While scrolling through my nightscape images from IISAC the other day, seeing if there was any I hadn't yet processed, I came across this out of focus one again, and switching between the in-focus and out-of-focus shots (taken within 30 seconds of each other) I kind of liked the effect.
So I combined them.
It's not a perfect combine - the trees from the out of focus shot are obviously 'bigger' and I didn't want to mask them totally out, but I think it's an interesting effect
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Thanks for looking.