and daydreaming in the middle of the night
Galloway Forest Park is what is known as a Dark Skies Area. It's a place where light pollution is so low that, on a cloudless night, you can see for a thousands of light years in any direction. The best experience of the park can be gained by driving into the heart of the park at night. Drive south from Glasgow on the M77 and then A77 until you pass through the small village of Minishant. Take the next exit off the A77 following signs for Kirkmichael and Straiton. Sticking to this road will take you right into the heart of the park.
With a large part of it being in my own council region on South Ayrshire, I went for a walk there and soon found myself daydreaming in the middle of the night. Having spent a quarter of a century working in the Telecommunications Industry, I'm very familiar with the global network of nodes and routers that interlink our data. I tend to see the stars as more of a celestial network connecting the hearts of those physically apart from each other and the souls of the living with those in eternity. I'm rarely more in touch with the universe than when sitting under the stars on a clear winters night.
NOTE:- Where I'm starting to get keen on photography, I'm no expert. These pictures were taken on my Samsung Galaxy S10 using some of the Pro Settings with ISO set to 1600 and shutter speed to 10 seconds. Main challenge for me (which I'm sure is apparent in these pictures to the more trained eye) was keeping the camera still during exposure.
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