Suzanne Edminister photographed this beautiful Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree at the The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest which is a protected area high in the White Mountains in Inyo County in eastern California.

Original Photographed by Suzanne Edminster

Once Suzanne’s photo above was merged together with my Milky Way I had to reduced some noise, added some clarity, tone and contrast to make the tree pop from the original photo.

Milky Way Photographed by Francesca Scalpi

This is a jpg file of the original raw file without any processing. For the final image I reduced the noise and stretched the images blacks and whites from the original Milky Way photo above.