The Winter Sky over Three Finger Canyon in the San Rafael Swell.

Orion has set behind the sandstone walls and Pleiades is resting in the notch.

Most of my photographs have focused on the core, however in this image we are staring outwards into the beyond of our galaxy.

For me night photography is more than the photography of stars and constellations and capturing beautiful colors or compositions. It's about the photography of ideas and concepts. The photography of our awareness, photographing where our planet, solar system and galaxy are in time and space, hence ultimately ourselves and our place in the cosmos.

Nikon D810a
24mm f/2.0 ISO 3200 20s
Montage of 6 images.

Each image of the panorama is a stack of 10 photos stacked and processed in Starry Landscape Stacker for noise reduction. Final stacked images were merged in into a panorama in Photoshop. Both the land and the sky were adjusted using the curves tool respectively.