The universe is so large and we are so small. One of the more positive experiences I have had with photography is figuring out time exposure; it is personally rewarding for some reason. And, one of the best directions to point a camera to experiment with time exposed photos is the night sky.
The photos here (below) were the result of me setting up outside on a chilly October night trying to get a lucky shot of a shooting star. It was a prime opportunity, for sure: debris from Halley’s Comet has graced our night skies yearly in the form of meteorites, and the Orionids meteor shower can produce some surprisingly bright objects for viewing. As it is, I only saw one shooting star and did not even capture it on film. Once the night got cold enough, I folded up my tripod and headed back indoors.
I did get some night sky pictures. Here are three: the first is a picture of Cassiopeia with the corner of a tree captured along with it. The second is a photo of the night sky with an abandoned house in the foreground; part of the constellation Pisces is peeking through the treetops. The third is a shot straight up from the ground (actually I laid my camera on an old stump); not only is a bit of the starfield capture, but also a power line and transformer from a telephone pole. Light pollution is all three photos was unavoidable, but made them a little more interesting in a way.
The Imagists 