Jacob Dedman, Looking to the stars (PEOPLE 2024)

The beauty of the universe is vast, and abundant in so many ways... Here in Australia we're so lucky to be able to see the southern stars so clearly, with the milky way sending a subtle spotlight across the sky, and I was so lucky to be there to witness it in the Australian outback at Cunnamulla, in Queensland. It is, in a way, a self portrait, as I put myself in the frame, yet it really could be anyone, shining a light up to the galaxies above, in awe of the magnificence surrounding the place we call home: Earth.

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