Stargazing from rock boulders close to my room

Namibia is well known for its star-gazing. There is very little light pollution if none at all, especially in remote areas like Mowani. Siggi is a keen star-gazer and photographer, and tracked the best times for seeing the stars at their brightest. From a photography point of view its best to try and photograph the stars with as little moonlight as possible. The moon is so bright it reduces the impact of stars in an image. What that translated to was a 2.30am start to be up watching and photographing stars. Having photographed stars before, I wanted to incorporate the foreground into the image to give more context. I did some research on this prior to the trip and using LED panels seemed to be the best way to do this. Fortunately, there are plenty of portable versions of these you can buy online, so I brought them along. It was great fun testing it out and I’m relatively pleased with the results - definitely something to work on! I hope I didn’t wake anyone in the camp!