The Odyssey

One of my last and favorite images from this summer. I literally waited 5 years for this shot. I scouted a similar one when I started pursuing photography, but I didn't know enough at the time to do what I wanted. Luckily, I was able to make it back. It is a three day trek over 30 miles and ~11,000ft of elevation change.

This was shot in the twilight of the setting sun literally as the milky way was first visible. That is why there is still blue in the sky and illumination on the ground. The land is a composite of 3 ~5s images for focus blending with the camera pointed down. I then rotated the camera up 90 degrees and shot the sky with a 30s exposure and manually aligned/blended them in post.