The Ascent

The Ascent
Climbing to the artifice of obscurity, the curtain is lifted. The range of haze and clouds shift, as the celestial mechanism of the Milky Way’s faint heart indelibly beats, pitted against the contours and complicity of night, corralling and inheriting the transparent ensemble of stars. The slanted lattice of stars in formation punctuates the sky, stretching above the aging shoulders and arms of the enduring driftwood. The Milky Way arc shifts as the core rises. The protracted, liberating line helms the sky. The widening beauty of it’s passage fills the oblique tension and void, it could be a dream. The month of March marks the perennial pilgrimage of capturing stars by practicing Astrophotography through October in the Southeast. Here marks the emancipation from the industrious hustle of the world and it’s many hard moments of steel through sleepless nights and all-night marathons. I watch for the rising of the galactic core wrestling to balance in the soft graces among the trope of burning stars, imperiously beaming, a fragile arrangement, merging with the stillness above the sea. The splash of the conducting giant, no longer obscured to the audience before it. The strong allure and glamor of it’s natural system unravels a pack of animated stars. The camera reads what lies above, the land and objects that fiercely inhabit the wild, sky, the repertoire onsite. Hours of studying the scene in silence pass, as revolutions in 20 second intervals. The ascent rising makes us see this source as full of possibilities for a new direction, a rehearsal for reassessing new beginnings.
ISO 6400, 24mm, f-2.8, 20.0 sec, Nikon D850, 14-24mm (f2.8), FEISOL Tripod, SIRUI K-40X BALL HEAD , Edited in LR
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