Credits
I received a lot of help from a number of people in the planning, shooting and editing stage of these photos. I wanted to acknowledge their contribution and offer my gratitude to:
Loizos for his sage advice, willingness to always listen, supreme navigation skills, encyclopaedic knowledge of Cyprus, company in the dark and for generally putting up with the madness over the entire period of production,
Lambros for being the co-pilot on my very first “mission” to collect photons from a galaxy far far away and for getting me to point the camera in the right direction,
Suleyman for going beyond the call of duty and way outside his driving comfort zone in order to ferry the team up a mountain and assuage its collective Greek Cypriot paranoia,
Eliana for not letting me let it slide, for giving me the confidence that this work was worth sharing and for schooling me on the importance of hashtags,
Arda for taking time out from saving lives to sort out a last minute translation,
Alex for making the website design process painless and for coming up with some amazing ideas on how to present it all,
Andrew for introducing me to Alex and for his infectious can do attitude,
All the family and friends who offered encouragement, comments, feedback and ideas along the way and who are far too many to mention individually,
The good people at Canon, Sigma, Manfrotto, Adobe and Photopills whose amazing equipment and software makes photos such as these possible,
All the other astrophotography geeks out there who took the time (and had the kindness) to share their techniques and tips online,
Cyprus, its people and its history,
And finally to Constantinos who gifted me the ability to collect light and without whose incredible act of kindness none of this would have ever happened.
Gear
Hardware
Canon EOS 5DSR
Canon EOS 6D
Canon EOS 1DX
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Sigma 24mm f1.4 DG HSM Art
Canon EF 16-35mm f2.8L USM
Canon EF 16-35mm f2.8L II USM
Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L USM IS
Manfrotto befree & 190 series tripods
Hähnel Giga T Pro II Remote Release
Photix Aion Remote release
Software
Adobe Lightroom CC (OSX)
Adobe Photoshop CC (OSX)
Ralph D. Hill LLC Starry Landscape Stacker (OSX)
Photopills (iOS)