Winter's Dream

I went out to photograph a panorama of the winter milky way while Saskatchewan was under a layer of heavy rime ice and snow. It isn't often that the flat prairie looks so breathtaking so I tried to take advantage. My panorama took 3 hours to shoot as the temperature dipped to below -20 celcius I could begin to feel it in my fingers and toes. Unfortunately, as my camera finished the panorama to the west I noted a bank of fog and moisture along the horizon that was turning the light pollution from Regina into a very attractive glow. Something I just had to shoot, especially considering the position of the core. Once my panorama wrapped up I set up my gear about 20 feet to the north and shot this scene. One benefit of the fog/moisture that was in the distance was the all natural amplified star glow effect.