Starfires

For me there are few more profound wilderness experiences than walking away from a warm campfire and a circle of friends and gazing up at a sky alive with stars. This scene shows the center of the galaxy softly glowing with the light of billions of suns and luminous nebulae above our little camp in the Dolly Sods wilderness in West Virginia. It was taken in late summer when the milky way is above the southern horizon in the evening.

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Canon 50D, 10-22 lens, 10mm, f/3.5 for 30s @1600

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