The Twilight Zone

I took this in Northern Ontario about seven years ago. I appreciate

any comments or critiques. Thank you.

Cool shot. The trees are so still. This took some time to set up and it turned out perfect.

Very Nicely Done

Thanks for sharing

Absolutely fantastic! How do you know exactly where that turning spot is? Or is that an astronomy secret?

Thanks for your comments. The "trick" to this is finding Polaris and carefully centering it in your image. Any slight deviation from the center will move the arcs at a slight angle from the middle of the frame. Using a wide-angle lens such as this makes it even more difficult as even *seeing* Polaris is quite difficult given its magnitude (star brightness). I believe this is about a 25-minute exposure under extremely dark skies far removed from light pollution. I remember the night fondly, it was one of the stillest, clearest skies I'd ever seen in my life, something so few of us have had the awesome pleasure of experiencing. :) -David

Very creative,David.Wonderful shot!

Polaris? North Star? Oh how lucky you from the northern hemisphere are. We from the southern hemisphere have no such star to guide us... Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Very abstract look to this. One of the better ones I've seen!

Unfortunately for southern hemisphere sky-watchers, there is no polar star that is close to the celestial pole. However, you can locate Sigma Octantis and go from there as that is fairly close to the south celestial pole. -David :)

Excelente encuadre, perfecta luz y color, belleza de composicion, saludos cordiales David.

Hahha... Interesting work. well done.

Nice image. I would have probably worked a little bit at composition, but still a nice image. I don't like to put Polaris dead center :)

very nice...like a van gogh painting...congrats.

GREAT!

Lovely, nicely done.

Like it!

 

Regards...

Fantastic image. Best regards.

Unfortunately I can not rate this photo higher than 6 at this time. I'll be back on that.

Very well done David. Great effect. Regards:Jose

perfect image,i want to give this kind of shot a chance too but i doubt i will get such perfect image as yours.congrats.

Thank you so much for your kind words. It's really a nice feeling when so many appreciate shots like this. The heavens are filled with so many wonders and I find it so calming to just look up at the stars. I'm an avid amateur astronomer and to share this with others is always a pleasure. I'm so glad you all liked it. -David

Superb shot. Bravo.