Nighttime in the Desert

Abstract

Digital photography The beauty of a dark desert sky is unmatched. As kids, we wish on shooting stars, and always look up to see the planes floating overhead. But as an adult, I look up into the sky and see the same mesmerizing stars from my childhood. However, when I look up, I also see light and noise pollution, and mistake planes and satellites for shooting stars. But no one ever thinks about how shooting stars are created most frequently by our own space trash burning up in the atmosphere. It's funny how we all see beauty in destruction. In this image, a plane creates the illusion of a shooting star.