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A Thousand Stars

I was so excited to be able to get out for three nights in a row to photograph the Milky Way over the weekend! I had actually wanted to capture this earlier in ...
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I was so excited to be able to get out for three nights in a row to photograph the Milky Way over the weekend! I had actually wanted to capture this earlier in the month but the clouds had not cooperated. I saw the potential for clear skies over Banff on Monday night and took a chance on heading out. My partner had never been out for a Milky Way chase and I was really hoping the skies would cooperate. I wanted the photos of course but I was also hoping that it wouldn’t be a bad first experience which might demotivate him from coming out again. When we arrived at my location everything was perfectly clear except for the southern horizon. So we took a nap and once it started to look like the clouds were moving out of the way, grabbed a few shots. During a few moment the Milky Way was totally unobscured. At the risk of sounding super gross, it was a pretty special night and being able to share one of my favourite things with someone important to me was pretty rad. He even did a really good job at standing still and not getting freaked out by all the glowing eyes (deer and sheep) peering out at us in the dark.
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