The Milky Way

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Stephen Jolly

July 19, 2024

Lately I have been sharing the places I have been visiting for the first time. In this blog I want to share a series of photos I took almost 5 years ago, of The Milky Way! Back in December last year (2023) I shared just a few of these photos with you in my Blog call “The Stars”. I will add a link at the end if you wish to check it out again, or for the first time. But this time I want to share a YouTube clip I made back then as well.

Many people ask me if this is how The Milky Way really looks. Well the answer to that is a flat “No!”. A lot of work goes into adjusting the colours, brightness, and contrasts in what is called post processing.

**This is My Favourite. It got shown on the Channel 10 Weather**

These colours are there, but the human eye just cannot see them. Being my first time some of these photos look different from each other. Some look a bit warmer (Orange-ish), while others look much cooler (Blue-ish) in their colours. This shows my newness back then to editing The Milky Way.

**I love the effect this light gives. A lot of work went into this one.**

This YouTube clip finishes up with a time lapse video clip I programmed my camera to take. These I could not edit, so it gives you a closer idea of what The Milky way does look like with the naked eye. I wish I could have let this time lapse run a little longer but a storm came in and covered the stars. Also I needed to rescue my camera.

**I love the blues and magentas in this shot**

I hope you enjoy this series of photos in my YouTube Clip.

And Remember my motto! WANDER EXPLORE DISCOVER!

This comes with some nice music. Turn it up if you want to.

and here’s the link I promised to my earlier blog title The Stars.

One response to “The Milky Way”

Adelaide Dunn

July 20, 2024

Well done Stephen these are brilliant, I remember seeing one or two them before but it was good to go back and see them again. Well worth a second look.

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I’m Stephen

I love my photography. I believe it all comes down to my love of nature. I live in Adelaide, Australia, and we are so blessed to live close to the sea and close to the bush. Twenty minutes to the west and you see beautiful beaches. Twenty minutes to the east and you’re walking through the bush with koala’s in the wild. Then we have the city itself with an abundance of modern and historical architecture. But I love other things. Birds, landscapes, the stars. Flowers and bees. You will see them here on my website.