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Yellow Stone Under Milky Way

CATOGORY: PANO, 6 shots stitch

Ever since I first saw a picture of Grand Prismatic Spring, the vivid green, blue color fascinated me like a dream.

Decades later as I got better at taking Milky Way Astrophotos, the vision of " A Yellow Stone Hot Spring Under The Milky Way" became etched in my mind.

Shooting Milky Way is easy, the hard part is finding a pool that is beautiful, not too steamy & in the right direction under the Milky Way arch.

Luckily I found one.

The snow storm stopped around sunset, as I waited, waited, crossed my fingers for a clear night.

At mid night I set out and propped up my tripod & took 6 photos of this Milky Way to get a complete arch.

No city light pollution, the dark sky above me dotted with millions of stars; there are so many stars that you could see the reflections in the pool and Yellow Stone lake.

It was 25F, my hands became numb after 5 minutes, I held my breath with each shutter press.

The rest was easy.

Enjoy, my friends.

☺️

Oliver Zhang
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Beautiful. Can't begin to imagine how much work you must've put in in shooting this. Keep up the good work. :)