We had the luck to be on Bali during Nyepi, Silence Day.
I have some images of the parade, not the spectacle in the end, because health got in the way, but some pictures I have. They’re in the edit queue.
But what I didn’t want to keep from you was this:
D800, ISO3200, 15 sec @ f/2.8, Nikkor 14mm
The parade is the night before Silence Day, and on Silence Day everyone is… silent. Yes. No one is allowed to work, no one is really even allowed to leave the house. No lights are allowed to be on, save for maybe some small candles (I’ll tell a bit more about Nyepi in the other post with the parade pictures).
And that makes this kind of photography fantastic. Absolutely no light pollution and the Universe at your feet. There are SO many stars visible, it’s hard to fathom. And the Milky Way is right there, at the tip of your fingers.
It’s breath-taking, it’s beyond words. To enjoy this in silence, to enjoy the silence of this.
Marvelous!
Arno,
Lovely, very nice, I wish I could have been there too. When young and at sea standing watch at midnight, thousands of miles from land, saw this image hundreds of times but sorry to say, I didn’t have a camera. If I would have had a camera, the motion of the ship would have created zig-zag star trails.
Again, thank you for sharing…
R/ The PhotogDog