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This digital painting took what can only be described as a ridiculously long time to do. I hope you all like it. No stock or references of any kind were used.
This photo was taken in Abruzzo Italy on 24 February 2012, shortly after sunset. It shows the Gran Sasso, a mountain massif whose peak is the highest of the Apennine mountains. The Gran Sasso is also known as the sleeping giant, because its profile resembles an asleep colossal creature.
Canon EOS 600D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS, Adobe Lightroom , Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Taken in late May 2015, this is a shot of the Milky Way over a partially thawed Bow Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Taken just after the Moon had set with some light cloud cover.
A 3-light-year-long pillar, bathed in the glow of light from hot, massive stars to the top of the image. Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from these stars are sculpting the pillar and causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of gas and dust can be seen flowing off the top of the structure.
Nestled inside this dense structure are fledgling stars. They cannot be seen in this image because they are hidden by a wall of gas and dust. Although the stars themselves are invisible, one of them is providing evidence of its existence. Thin puffs of material can be seen traveling to the left and to the right of a dark notch in the center of the pillar. The matter is part of a jet produced by a young star. Farther away, on the left, the jet is visible as a grouping of small, wispy clouds. A few small clouds are visible at a similar distance on the right side of the jet. Astronomers estimate that the jet is moving at speeds of up to 850,000 miles an hour. The jet's total length is about 10 light-years.
Composed of gas and dust, the pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina.
Taken near Oberjoch, Bavaria, Germany. The mountain you can see in the image is the Hirschberg, from where I took my picture "Foggy Valley with Milky Way". I hope you like it!
Canon EOS 550D, Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX AF 11-16mm f/2.8. Exposure time was 13 minutes.