Galactic Gathering - Ultrawide milky way with towering trees silhouetted looking straight up Metal Print

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"Galactic Gathering"
I have this image envisioned, but haven't had the chance to capture it "for real" yet, and I'm not sure if the light pollution at this particular location will even allow me to get something useful. So I created this composite from two images I have recently shot, and attempted to (hopefully) create a realistic/convincing night-time result. The stars were shot in August - about 7 frames tracked and stacked with Sequator. The trees were shot today- just one exposure at dusk and then postprocessed to achieve "black-out" silhouette appearance when layered in with the star backdrop.

Both images captured with Pentax K-1 and two different ultrawides (Rokinon and Pentax 15-30, both at f2.8).

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...