Chury Wang from Jinan, China
The summer Milky Way arches above a site in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, with millennia-old Buddhist stone carvings. The photographer used a Nikon DSLR and 35mm lens at f/1.4 to take 30-second sky frames at ISO 800, plus 10-second foreground frames at f/2 and ISO 3200. The final image comprises 87 stitched frames.