It was early fall and I had decided to drive up to the      Eastern Sierra in the hopes of doing some  photography.  Upon arriving, I was disappointed to find lots of smoke from the recent fires, but, they indicated that I would just have to make the best of it.

The smoke finally did begin to clear, and I was able to capture some beautiful images.  I had also wanted to do some night sky photography  while there.  During the daytime I decided to  spend some time scouting out a really nice  scene of the Milky Way.  So, I drove over to South Mono Lake and spent several hours
looking for just the right scene to capture.

I located what I believed was a great  scene with the Milky Way and I went back that night to capture the scene.  This photograph I named "Pathway to the Galaxy" because it reminds me of  being on some ancient planet.  The tall Tufa towers of Mono Lake and the pathway that takes one to the Milky Way Galaxy gives one the feeling of being on some distant planet in another galaxy.