Seth Lazar, Castle Rock (May theme: The night sky)

Castle Rock is a giant monolith south of Canberra, with nothing between it and the city to the north, so the whole face as you see it in the image is illuminated by orange streetlight (it's about 10k south). But then behind the rocks, away to the South and West, there's just nothing. To give a sense of scale I did a silhouetted shadow in one shot; I'm still figuring lighting out so it's not the most impressive effort. But it gives you a sense of how big this thing is, I would guess at about 25m easy. Many many shots went into the making of this mosaic. Tracked of course. The rock is on private property and I was kindly allowed by the landowners to go up for the night (and use the images); it was a pretty wild scramble down from the hill at about 3 in the morning. Didn't help that I was sick as a dog and had an injured hip. Ah the things we do for a photo... Exif Foreground about 180s at f4 ISO 2000 Sky 120s f3.2 ISO 2000 Skywatcher Star Adventurer Tracking Mount Samyang 20mm f1.8 Nikon d750

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