In this composited image of an Astro reflection, I wanted to depict how we may be feeling about the current worldwide situation and our need to reflect on certain concepts. Whenever we aim our camera to the night sky we face two major obstacles: 1) the light reaching us from the stars is very dim, so we need to take long exposures, but... 2) The earth is spinning! So if we take really long exposures, beyond certain limits, the stars begin to trail and will show as little lines instead of pinpoint stars.

This photo was taken at the Meridian Gate just outside the Forbidden City in Beijing. I shot the image using a Nikon D810 with the Irix 11mm wide angle lens. I used my trusted Manfrotto 055Xpro3 to setup and frame the shot! This shot took out about 6 hours to execute as I took 710 images at 30 seconds each. I set my aperture to f/5.6 and kept myISO at 640.