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Cosmic shoreline

Rob Lyons from Vancouver, British Columbia

The Milky Way meets the horizon on the shores of Mackenzie Beach (Tinwis) on Vancouver Island, accompanied by a glow of bioluminescent plankton in this shot taken with a Sony a7S III mirrorless camera and 14mm f/1.4 l ens. The sky was twenty 13-second subframes and the foreground is one 13-second image.

September 2025