Reach for the Stars

An interesting shot.  Amazing, the number of stars.  I like how the lit trees form an arrow pointing to the stars.  I wonder how it would look reducing the brightness of the trees. 

Incredible sea of stars against which these lit trees are placed.  Really like the centered composition of the trees and your thinking outside the box approach.  Remarkable photographic art in my opinion.

This is well composed, Kathy, and the Milky Way is nicely rendered. Like Allen, I think I would prefer less light on the foreground trees, but I can see that some would prefer the stark look of the trees.

I have to say that I'm really impressed with this image. You're making us all look bad, Kathy. Your last one was a killer and now this. I've never liked light painted images but this is totally different. On the level of a graphic composition this is excellent, But on a gut level, these stark white skeleton trees rising into the dark heavens, it takes your breath away. It works on a symbolic level too. We get to see 3 versions of this. My favorite is the smallest that's viewed by clicking directly on the image above. It's the preciseness of the lines and dots in that version that is so appealing. I wouldn't darken those trees at all. Great job.

Beautiful Kathy.  Love your take on Great Basin.  I think you have a killer image here.  I, too, am not a big fan of light painting, but this pushes the envelope just enough to work amazingly well. Just awesome.

Unique, for sure.  The tonal range is actually quite wide--pure black to pure white.  The contrast, I suppose, is narrow.  That's generally what I like in B&W too. 

This is a very striking image Kathy.  Reminds me a lot o Kodak's graphic art film Kodalith
 that I used to fool around with in the old darkroom days.

Very ethereal - the B&W is perfect.
Congrats on the WP!
Sandy