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“After every storm comes a calm”, or so they say. After a pretty big storm had cleared from over the NC coast, I saw my chance for this photo as the clouds gave way to a brilliantly clear sky in which stars were vividly visible.
There were challenges for this shot, as the foreground in front of the lighthouse is a grassy area which floods only when there is a significant amount of rain. Capturing a large enough puddle for the reflection, with a new moon and clear skies was a big ask.
I was at this location well before sunset and was happy to see the water exactly where the galactic core was supposed to be later that night. However, between the sunset and the Milky Way rise, the water started seeping into the ground and the puddle slowly began to disappear. When I had initially setup my camera, the entire lighthouse was visible in the reflection but by the time I got the Milky Way as I wanted in the frame, what you see is all that remained of the reflection. Within another hour, the puddle of water was all but gone. It was the transient nature of the reflection that inspired the title of this image.
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