Fantasy
These are all composite shots of scenes that could not exist in real life: the visible Milky Way in a light polluted sky or in a different direction. I've tried, wherever possible to place astronomical objects as close to where they would be if they were visible with some exceptions that I'll note in each individual picture.
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Milky Way over the California State Capitol
I initially wasn’t going to do this composite since I believed that the Capitol is on a true north south axis, it’s not. Looking at the Google Maps after I returned from Sacramento, I noticed that downtown Sacramento is laid out on a similar axis to downtown Los Angeles, so a composite would be believable. Of course, I only had day shots of the Capitol so I had to do a bit of work in Photoshop(changing day to night for the photo and adding lighting), but I think it worked pretty well. The Milky Way shot is an early season shot from Lockwood Valley so it works with the direction of the foreground and the light dome from Los Angeles works as some light pollution at the horizon for Sacramento.
