Silence between the stars

Silence between the stars. 2018.

A dead white tree stands lit like a stage prop in the paddock, its tangled limbs catching the light while the Milky Way drifts silently above. The long exposure turns the stars into a soft river and the grass into a quiet, luminous floor, so the tree feels caught between two timescales, human and cosmic. This photograph is less about astronomy than about endurance, a portrait of something long finished with leaves that is still stubbornly holding its place under a sky that never stops moving.

24 mm • f/2.8 • 30 sec • ISO 400