Moonbeams and the Milky Way

I hoped to get a few good images of the Milky Way behind this abandoned cabin in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but on this night Mother Nature had other plans...wind, lightning, and rain. As much as I love a summer storm, time was an issue with the nearly full moon rising to the east and the galactic center traversing the southern sky and out of my composition.

With no backup plan, I decided to wait it out hoping to salvage the night and was treated to a magical scene...the rising moon shrouded by the storm cast moonbeams across the sky as lightning highlighted the cloud and illuminated the side of the cabin. And since I was still wanting shoot the Milky Way before it was completely washed out by the moon, I shot this as a panorama and although faint, it still shows up on the right while Jupiter and Saturn line up nicely right above the cabin.

Canon 5dmkiv
Irix 15mm
2 frame panorama each at f2.8, ISO800, 25 sec