04/09/2026
My favourite shots from a night on an ancient volcano in northern NSW 🌌🌋
As you would have seen in my last reel, I headed north from Sydney to capture the Milky Way a few weeks ago. This place was incredible thanks to its dark skies and dramatic scenery.
I chose this first frame as it faced perfectly south to capture an amazing star trail and had this beautiful grass tree that I could frame in the foreground. This shot is a composite of a single foreground frame, lit by my head torch, and a 3 hour long stitched timelapse. Incredibly happy with how it turned out!
Scroll to the next frame to see the Timelapse these photos also created… 👉🏼
As sunset, turned to dusk and then to complete darkness, the stars came out in abundance. Millions of stars slowly rotating around the southern celestial pole
A little ways back down the mountain, I found this incredible composition. The setting Milky Way perfectly aligned with the mountain range - three distant peaks that were once the core of an ancient volcano.
This one was a 5 image stack, captured with 3min exposures and tracked using a Move Shoot Move Nomad Star Track
A close up of the setting Milky Way. The detail in the core is incredible! So much detail and colour appears where you star increasing your exposure time.
And finally, a timelapse of the setting Milky Way, captured from a separate camera, shooting images across an hour long period
