Traveled to the darkest skies I could find in the U.S. to shoot the Milky Way. This photo is the result.
Shot under Bortle 1 skies in Big Bend National Park along the Texas/Mexico border. (The Bortle scale measures light pollution with 1 being darkest and 9 – think Times Square – being the brightest. While the Milky Way is incredibly bright under Bortle 1 skies – like a glowing cloud that stretches across the sky …









