The Starry Night - Van Gogh conversion of Cosmic Cairns - summer Milky Way above cairns on prairie
by Peter Herman
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The Starry Night - Van Gogh conversion of Cosmic Cairns - summer Milky Way above cairns on prairie
Artist
Peter Herman
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Using various "swirl brush" distortions, I manipulated the milky way into a sort of Van Gogh variation of his famous "The Starry Night" painting. Source image (unmodified) is also available here - original description was:
While in ND last week, I took advantage of the low light-pollution levels there to do some Milky Way "core" shooting (summer is when the core of our galaxy is visible in the southern sky, with milky way reaching straight upwards, visible from dark sites). Here, you see the milky way reaching for the heavens (can the heavens reach for themselves?), centered between a pair of cairns built by my family on a rock pile just that afternoon in the Kenner coulee pasture. Image was shot with an ultra-wide lens, so the top of the image extends well past "overhead". If you click and zoom way in, you'll even see our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, (the elongated fuzzy thing) captured inadvertently in the upper-left part of image! This is an extreme depth of field image - rocks at 1 foot distance, milky way core at about 30,000 light years in distance, and Andromeda, 2.5 million light years away.
Image captured 8/6/19 with Pentax K-1 and Rokinon 12mm lens. ~300 sec integration time on 6 shots of sky, images tracked and stacked. The image is composited to achieve sharpness in both foreground and stars.
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April 9th, 2021
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