Road To The Milky Way

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Hi all,

Had one of those nights last night. Tossing and turning and I just couldn't switch off. Gave up at about 3am and poked my head outside to see that the clouds and smoke haze from fuel reduction burns around here had finally cleared a bit. Decided to head just a few kilometers down the road and do one of my 180 degree vertical panoramas. I did want to find a road that was perfectly aligned to the Milky Way overhead but with time running out I settled for this straight stretch.

Vertical panorama made from 10 horizontal images.


Cheers

Greg
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[gregbradley]

That's very cool.

An interesting image.

Greg.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

This sort of upside down view often doesn't work but this is a very emotional view to me.

I very rarely use this emoticon in a serious way... but in this case here goes



Excellent Greg

Mike

[RB (Andrew)]

Sensational Greg, love it.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Absolutely wonderful, Greg

[pw (Peter)]

It took me a while to understand what I was seeing (horizon to horizon vertical panorama), but when I understood I liked it.
Even without the panoramic thing it would be impressive, great looking sky.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Fantastic compo and dig the zodiacal light streaming into the Milkyway center hope you dont mind but I saved and rotated 180degs and them foreground trees look quite cool in the twilight hangin from the top ! Top Image Greg, or Bottom Image Greg

[danielsun]

Wow, thats an interesting image. Great work and very well done.

[Phil Hart]

So do you ever sleep?

Love that image. Combination with zodiacal light at the bottom and green airglow at the top.. sweet. Unique but very effective composition.

Phil

[OzEclipse (Joe Cali)]

fantastic image - congrats!
joe

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Superb! Stunning! Eyepopping! Bonza Beauty!

I think you get my drift

[iceman (Mike)]

Love it! Top stuff.

[dvj (John)]

I have no idea how you did that, but I am awe struck!

[alexch (Alex)]

Wonderful image, Greg!
The zodiacal light works wonderfully well with the diagonal Milky Way.

Thanks for the view.

Alex

[redbeard (Damien)]

That is one great image with a cool twist!

Great work.

Damien.

[colinmlegg (Colin)]

Agree with all the other comments. Simply stunning and all the elements work perfectly. You nailed it again

[frenchbluehour (Nicole)]

pretty cool image Greg...

[Paul Haese]

Interesting image Greg. Good colour saturation too.

[Antu]

Fantastic image, Greg ! Which camera and lens did you use ?

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Thank you so much for all the very nice feedback everyone. I really appreciate it.

Originally Posted by astronobob

hope you dont mind but I saved and rotated 180degs and them foreground trees look quite cool in the twilight hangin from the top ! Top Image Greg, or Bottom Image Greg

Don't mind at all Bob. In fact I was very close to going with that orientation myself, but finally thought that the prominent tree "grounded" the image a bit.

Originally Posted by philiphart

So do you ever sleep?

LOL Yeah, I can sometimes go whole hours without waking up and poking my head out the door to see if the stars are out

Originally Posted by Antu

Which camera and lens did you use ?

Canon 5D MkII and 14mm F/2.8