Galactic Reflections

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

I have been drooling over Carlos’ images recently and wanted to see if I might be able to capture something half as awesome. It has been really calm at night and the reflections of the stars on the full dams (we had some rain!) looks great and Steve’s image from the other day prompted me have a go at imaging them.

I rode my motorbike (don’t have my drivers license yet) down the road about 3k’s to a particular dam that had some interesting dead trees in it and was able to capture this image that I have called ‘Galactic Reflections’. Hope you like it!

19 image pano, 45 seconds each frame with a Canon 1100D with stock lens at 18mm F3.5, ISO 6400. Stitched in Hugin and processed in Aperture.

Check out the larger version Here.

Cheers
Jo

[ourkind (Carlos)]

Dude well done that IS awesome, what a great effort! You've done that dam some damn justice!! Very good work on the sky and foreground, and love the trees! you gotta go back for more

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Thats a really great effort, lots of good elements for a nightscape

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Great work Jo for the effort put in you got a nice reward.

cheers.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

That's an excellent photo Jo !

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thanks a lot fella's

Jo

[schmikko (Michael)]

Great image Jo, nice location and colours too.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by schmikko

Great image Jo, nice location and colours too.

Thanks The location was easy, colours not so much so, I think I repro'd this image over 10 times! I'm pretty chuffed with how it came out though, especially with only a cheap camera and lens

Jo

[Phil Hart]

Very impressive.. that's a strong representation of the Gegenschein there too.

Phil

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Originally Posted by philiphart

Very impressive.. that's a strong representation of the Gegenschein there too.

Phil

Thank you very much Phil

[iceman (Mike)]

Excellent image! A dam and dead trees - a nightscapers dream location!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Well, this one has come up Trumphs Jo, , deaded trees can work and fail, this is working really good, Grouse job indeed

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thanks very much for your comments Mike and Bob.

Jo

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Wow - really, really nice!

[EagleEyes (Andy)]

Very nice!

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Absolutely stunning, both the location and the composition. A very good image indeed, well done. Those trees silhouetted against the airglow look magical.

[nebulosity. (Jo)]

Thank you Pete, Andy and Rolf! I really appreciate your comments

Jo