"Startrails over Dolomites"
The second place winner in the Beauty of the Night Sky category of the Third International Earth and Sky Photo Contest on Dark Skies.

"The rugged peaks of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Italian Alps are famous among mountain climbers and landscape photographers, but few have attempted to capture their nighttime beauty.
German astrophotographer Cristoph Otawa won second place in the Beauty of the Night Sky category with this 3-hour-long circumpolar startrail image.
It shows a natural combination of stars and night-time landscape lights, considering that digital startrails images often lack star colors or display the sky
filled with too many stars because of high ISO settings or oversaturated processing."

Christoph Otawa am 28.09.2011 (36 Fotos x 5min ergeben 3h Gesamtbelichtungszeit)