Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads

Captured: Carthage, IL.

The first thing that came to mind with this image was Doc Brown's famous line at the end the original Back to the Fu...
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Captured: Carthage, IL.

The first thing that came to mind with this image was Doc Brown's famous line at the end the original Back to the Future movie... "Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads." I could almost envision his old DeLorean time machine lift off, turn around in mid-air, and rocket off towards the milky way's galactic core. ;) Ok, so my imagination probably got the best of me there, but it was pretty easy to let it run with such a beautiful night in the Illinois countryside.

It's always amazing to be able to experience such a stunning dark sky, free of the light pollution we often run into back home. Only wish I could see it more often.

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"Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads" is a non-HDR image that was processed using a combination of ACR and Photoshop to add brightness, contrast and saturation. Also includes the use of Topaz Labs plugins -- Adjust, Denoise AI, Glow and Impression). Milky Way stars were stacked using Sequator.
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