The sun was setting when John Andersen grabbed his camera, jumped in his car, and drove west of city limits in search of his finicky nighttime subject matter. For astrophotographers like Andersen, shooting the Milky Way galaxy has traditionally been a nighttime gig—one that thrives in perfect darkness with zero sodium city lights in sight.
Andersen, from Calgary, tells The Epoch Times he’s willing go to great lengths to capture the central core of our galaxy, which, scientists believe, swirls around an invisible black hole some 4 million times as massive as the sun. It appears brightest in the fall, he says. The photographer braves a hazardous stretch of road into the secluded and rugged mountains where wildlife frequent the highways at night and big cats stalk wary visitors.
