Taking advantage of clear night, I set out to attempt an image I’d had in mind for a long time: the Milky Way over Boundary Bay. By framing our galaxy's core (at 100mm) over Lummi Island, a small but relatively tall island located over 40 kilometers (25 miles) south across the US/Canada border, I hoped to give a sense of the massive scale of space relative to land here on Earth. Photographing from near the city makes astrophotography difficult. Although I was about 40 minutes from Vancouver, the effects of light pollution were still significant. To help overcome this, I utilized long exposure and stacking techniques. This final image integrates 72 stacked images totaling 35 minutes of exposure time, helping to reduce noise and increase detail. However, the glow of cities in Washington state remain visible on the horizon, and I chose to leave the light pollution colour cast created by sodium-vapor lamps in nearby cities in the final image, resulting in warm colour tones.