These stunning photographs are some of the winners of this year’s Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition
, captured from prime spots around the world, are curated and published by Dan Zafra, editor of travel photography blog Capture the Atlas.
Tom Rae’s entry , shows the Milky Way emerging from New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, on a winter’s night. “In rare alpine weather conditions, I embarked on a journey up the glacial valley one night,” said Rae in an announcement on Zafra’s site. “Upon reaching the lake, the scene that unfolded made me feel like I had landed on another planet.”In another elevated endeavour, Andrea Curzi captured an “arch” of the Milky Way over Passo Giau, a mountain pass in Italy.
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