This image was a nice surprise. Before sunrise one May morning I drove up toward Newfound Gap in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, hoping to get some blue hour images from outlooks near the gap. As I drove by an outlook lower down, I saw the beginning of the blue hour unfolding in the sky above the foothills. Even though I couldn’t see the Milky Way because it wasn’t dark enough, I knew the viewpoint looked toward the Milky Way at that hour and thought my camera might capture a hint of our galaxy with a long exposure and high ISO. But I had to move fast before it became too light. I quickly took a series of exposures before the light changed, manually bracketing exposures based on prior experience photographing the Milky Way. This exposure picked up a trace of the galaxy, and also wispy clouds which I could not see myself.
Date Taken: | 05.2019 |
Date Uploaded: | 11.2020 |
Photo Location: | Cherokee, North Carolina, United States of America |
Camera: | PENTAX K-1 |
Copyright: | © William Sisson |