05/15/2026
I didn’t plan on this lineup. My time-lapse was located 20 minutes away, where I planned on attempting to find a composition and location to use my star tracker, but with too many trees to find Polaris I decided to go back to my car and take a nap while the sky was still cloudy and I didn’t know if it would clear up. Luckily, I heard the water flowing and decided to go check it out, only to find this location with a clear and perfect lineup with the Milky Way. Finding any waterfall with an open southern view in New England is rare, and to blindly stumble upon one feels infinitesimally lucky.
This image is a combination of two three minute images, one with the star tracker for the sky and immediately afterwards a three minute exposure with the tracker turned off for the foreground. Both images were at 16mm, f2.2 for 180 seconds at ISO 800 and 1600.
Photographed on the traditional lands of the Mohican Peoples.