Joshua Tree is a beautiful, amazing park with a profound light pollution problem. In this vertical panorama I tried to subdue the light pollution a bit with the Astronomik CLS-CCD clip filter for my Canon 6D, which I think did a really good job of allowing me to image some of the Milky Way that would normally be washed out by light pollution.

I placed a couple of static lights to the left in an effort add some depth to the foreground. I also focus-stacked the immediate foreground with multiple exposures to ensure full depth of field.

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The Milky Way (and airglow!) emerge from the sky as astronomical twilight fades into the night. Vertical panorama taken with a full-spectrum Canon 6D, taken in eastern Oregon in July of this year.

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Here's another long exposure from one of my favorite little town's for doing these kind of shots: Astoria, Oregon.

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Summer may not be over, but it's starting to feel like it's over. Which means I should probably finish processing some of my photos from last winter before I start taking new ones, right?

Here's an attempt at getting caught up: This is a vertical panorama taken last February, no stacking, no compositing, just a vertical panorama on a full-spectrum camera. The lights in the background are crab boats, I think. And they're freaking bright!

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I finished working on a 360x180 from these files, so I also decided to pull this strangely warped (because of the projection) flat representation of the scene. (On a separate note: I really don't like the way Flickr renders 360x180 panos: For some reason there's a glitch occurring at the zenith of my last upload, despite that glitch not showing up in any other 360 viewers, Facebook included).

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