last Milky Way of the season

WOW! Amazing shot, and I love how you documented it!

Stunning! I love the deep blue tones.

That's amazing! I never get to see a sky like that. Too much light pollution here!

@scrapchyck there's a lot of light pollution here too. The rest of the year, it's mostly lost under the lights of several cities on the horizon, even from the national wildlife refuge. You can't see all these stars with your eyes (sadly). The one and only time I've actually photographed the Milky Way where I could see it by eye first, I cried. (I scrapped a black and white version for MOC last year: https://the-lilypad.com/forum/galleries/first-milky-way.526093/) I highly recommend going somewhere truly dark and enjoying the sky if you can because it's unbelievable magical.

Thank you, @kendrawalter and @LivyBug!

Congratulations! Your fabulous layout has been spotlighted on the Lilypad Blog today for my first super-sized MOC spotlight post this month.

@Karen thank you so much! I don't think I've ever been featured on the blog before. I'm so excited!

very cool! A great idea to scrap this and a wonderful design!
Congrats for being spotlighted on the blog, well deserved!

@sucali thank you!

it makes a huge difference when there's a black out! i've (tried) shooting this from our backyard too (with some success after some enhancement but you are so right about how difficult it is and you did a fab job!)