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New World

New World is an image that I created to fulfill my curiosity about us, the Universe, and what exactly lies out there, using an eight-photo panorama of the Milky...
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New World is an image that I created to fulfill my curiosity about us, the Universe, and what exactly lies out there, using an eight-photo panorama of the Milky Way Galaxy and a single photo of the foreground, taken at Mt. Pulag Summit, Kabayan, Benguet. I hope to arouse the mind of the viewers as well, and show how insignificant the Earth is compared to the entirety of the Universe. We are merely a speck of dust in our Galaxy, let alone the entire Observable Universe. To quote Carl Sagan, "On it, everyone you ever heard of... The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust." Being able to capture the night sky and our Galaxy in its full glory is one of the most fulfilling things as a photographer, as an artist, and as a human being searching for an answer.
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