The whole picture tells a story too. The framing of the rock (for lack of a better word) and then the bright colors of the hikers. The angle of the path. Just beautiful.
I live in the Sacramento area and went up to Yosemite a few months ago to try to capture some night photos of the stars after a dream I had where my son came to me and said, "Mom, I have to show you something." We traveled to a remote area, it was nighttime. He pointed up to the night sky and said, "Look". I saw a beautiful star constellation, breathtaking. The constellation had different colors, pinks and blues and purples. It was truly beautiful. In my dream, I told my son "I wish I had brought my camera," and he laughed and said "Mom, just use your iphone" (He was really into phone cameras, particularly Samsung). I laughed back and said, "oh, right". Just like we used to joke when he was alive.
The next morning, one of the people I follow on Twitter, who is a Lakota Indian, posted about a Lakota belief that when a child is born, they are each given a star spirit called a "wanagi". Lakota believe that when we die, our soul returns to their star spirit through the Milky Way. Wow, what are the odds my son came to me in a dream just hours before and told me he had to show me this star constellation? And then I see that tweet about Wanagi?
I googled "Milky Way" and saw that many photos of it show different colors. I did not know that, I never thought of any star constellations as having different colors. This is the closest I can find to the colors I had in my dream, but they were even more beautiful and vivid in my dream: https://share.google/yULonHrxdEybRvSGm
Anyway, I tried to get some night pictures myself, but they didn't come out. I think there was still too much light.
Didn't mean to go on and on. But, again, your post was timely. Maybe it's also a sign from my son to get out there and try again. Thank you for posting.
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