Back in early 2019, I was out on the Tasman Peninsula shooting the rising Milky Way for the first time in the season.

As the first traces of sunlight started to intrude into the Bortle 2 skies, a lone Brushtail possum snuck into the scene for several frames, posing atop this now-fallen dock under the rising Milky Way. Suitably, the image is named The Visitor.

Have you had wildlife interrupt your shoot?

#photography #astrophotography #wildlife

@benalldridge what a lovely image! 🤩 just gorgeous! did you have to run down to the end and “plant” lights in that boathouse at the end of the dock?
@exkclamation it was actually my mate’s phone! The door was open which it never is otherwise, so it was a unique opportunity while we were shooting.
@benalldridge glad you got the opportunity, it’s a beautiful photo!