I am in my 5th year of shooting the night sky and I continue to find ways to improve the images. That includes finding interesting foregrounds to include in those of the Milky Way Core.
This was shot at the abandoned airfield in Algonquin Park which is littered with the “skeletons” of trees destroyed by fire. I used a longer focal length lens that “compresses” the image making distance objects appear closer than they are.
There are a lot of things that I like about the photo. The starkness created by the dead trees, the mist that obscures the trees in the distance and the Milky Way itself with its clouds of interstellar dust, gas, nebula, and star clusters.
I took this about 1:00 in the morning and could hear in the distance the howls of wolf cubs and their parents. Often I get as much pleasure taking the photo as I get capturing the image.