Milky Way Panorama at Mani Peninsula

A photo composite of multiple exposures. From the photographer: “During my last visit to the peninsula of Mani, I managed to capture some of my favourite nightscape images. On this trip, I had only one thing left on my bucket list; a milky way arch 180° panorama. I drove till the (almost) southernmost point of mainland Greece, a generally very dark place, the same spot where I captured the milky way rising the last time in order to capture what I imagined. The lights in the distance are coming from some settlements where during summer are becoming very famous. This is also the reason why you see some lights in the far distance, these are ships trying to satisfy the needs of the tourist period of summer. All these downsides weren’t enough to prevent the colours of the night sky pop into my image. In order to create a more artistic and ethereal look to it, I decided to use a diffuser filter and that was something that I won’t regret!”

Technical details: Two panel panorama of eight images each panel. Sky images were tracked and untracked for the foreground.