Baby you are a shooting star.
by tjbel05

Comment:
I'm surprised you didn't post the other version as an outtake. It's beautiful.

Parker-Lake
by JulietNN

Comment:
Your effort paid off... you won a meteor challenge without any meteors. Congrats on the new personal best!

Baby you are a shooting star.
by tjbel05

Comment:
The only great capture of a Perseid in this challenge. Pity that it's cut off, and I wish you had brightened the scene to bring out the Milky way and foreground trees, but kudos for the best meteor of the bunch!

Parker-Lake
by JulietNN

Comment:
Lovely night sky photo, especially with the water reflections. You even caught a glimpse of the Andromeda Galaxy between the top center trails. The bad news is that there aren't any Perseids in it. Those streaks are almost certainly satellite trails (the one at top left could be an airplane). The radiant for this meteor shower is at the top edge of this frame along the Milky Way, so any Perseids would trace back to that point. If you look through your other shots, you may find some Persieds, although with such a wide field all but the brightest ones will look like hairlines or a very thin teardrop shape. Any meteor trails at top center would be very short since they're shooting directly at you.

Having seen an outtake, I know who took this photo and won't vote on it. Given the tiny pool of entries and DPC's penchant for dark, moody scenes, there's a good chance you reel in a red (or even blue) ribbon in the Perseid Meteor Shower challenge without capturing a single Perseid meteor. Well played!

rooftop action.. or not
by tvsometime

Comment:
Good effort even if the meteors eluded you.

illion
by GeorgesBogaert

Comment:
Not quite sure what I'm looking at here... an illustration of some sort? There aren't any significant galaxies near this shower's radiant point, and I don't recognize the star patterns.

Aeroplanes, alien beams and a small perseid
by Sisto

Comment:
Beautiful shot, albeit without any Perseid meteors. The trail at top is definitely an airplane (you can see the regular dot pattern from a blinking wingtip light), and the one at bottom is likely a plane as well. The meteor shower's radiant point is about 3/4" straight up from the right tip of the bottom trail, so any Perseids would be aimed directly from that spot. Still an excellent nightscape on its own, though.

d e p a r t u r e
by Bear_Music

Comment:
Free Study worthy. This was vastly superior to my entry in every respect (other than being the real thing).

Free at last
by LevT

Comment:
Well done! The blue ribbon was never in doubt.

Close Encounter of the Swimming Kind
by gyaban

Comment:
Nice! I once thought of shooting something like this on grass and calling it "Depth of Field."

Message edited by author 2017-04-10 13:43:09.