Starship Asterisk*

100 Steps Forward

Explanation: A beautiful conjunction of Venus and Moon, human, sand, and Milky Way is depicted in this night skyscape from planet Earth. The scene is a panorama of 6 photos taken in a moment near the end of a journey. In the foreground, footsteps along the wind-rippled dunes are close to the Huacachina oasis in the southwestern desert of Peru. An engaging perspective on the world at night, the stunning final image was also chosen as a winner in The World at Night's 2017 International Earth and Sky Photo Contest.

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Imaginative and a bit eerie...

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I like this photo; different, yet very smoooooth!

They should ask for a RAW, The lighting and shadows of the moon and external lighting do not match.

It's a composition of two different pictures on different days. I don´t think It's a single panoramic.

Beautiful, yes, but sad that this kind of photoshop images make in a creative photo montage become APOD.

APOD CRITIC wrote:They should ask for a RAW, The lighting and shadows of the moon and external lighting do not match.

It's a composition of two different pictures on different days. I don´t think It's a single panoramic.

Beautiful, yes, but sad that this kind of photoshop images make in a creative photo montage become APOD.

The Moon isn't bright enough to provide significant illumination. The landscape is illuminated from some other source, which we can't identify in this image. There is no reason to think it wasn't constructed exactly as described, from a series of images made at the same time.

Outstanding!
Great technique and breathtaking composition.