Starry Night over the Tetons Metal Print

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At 2:20 AM one June, I was standing with a small group of photographers on the small walking bridge just south of String Lake in Grand Teton National Park. My primary objective was to shoot the Milky Way, with the Teton Range off to the right. The temperature was near perfect with a light, westerly wind blowing some small, low-level clouds across the scene. The yellow seen in the image is light pollution from Jackson, Wyoming. What a wondrous sight!

Don Mercer is an author and freelance fine art photographer. Research for one book took him to the middle of Cambodia in 1999, as he was the first from among his wartime unit to return to that country. During the War in Southeast Asia - known to most as the Vietnam War, he flew over two hundred combat missions as an Air Force pilot in the Cessna O-2A. His combat assignment was as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. The majority of his combat missions were flown in Cambodia at night. While in Southeast Asia in 1970-71, his interest in photography intensified with the purchase of his first two of numerous Nikon cameras. Black and white, as well as color, 35mm, and Super 8 movie films were used at the time. The transition to digital...