Still Mountain Lake Under the Milky Way

A still alpine mountain lake mirrors the Milky Way arching overhead with a rocky shoreline, small pines and jagged peaks in silhouette.

Prompt

A real photograph of a Milky Way night landscape, captured on a fast full-frame digital sensor with a 14mm wide lens at f/1.8, a seconds-long exposure that holds stars as discrete varied points, high-ISO grain and crisp real silhouette texture along the ground. A perfectly still mountain lake in a high alpine basin: the galactic band arches overhead and is mirrored in the black water, a rocky shoreline with a few small pines in the foreground and jagged peaks silhouetted around the lake. Light: the galactic band is the picture's only light, its dust structure irregular and softly pearly, faintly silvering the shoreline rocks and ridge edges, with a subtle warm airglow near the horizon on one side and the reflection leading the eye from the foreground rocks into the sky. Deep indigo blacks, restrained star whites and a clear noise-fine astro finish; vast in scale, no light pollution. Wide 16:9 landscape frame. No people, animals, buildings, readable text, signs or logos.
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