Just before dawn the Milky Way begins its descent behind the historic Frank Schott stone barn in rural western Minnesota.
The core of the Milky Way rises above the historic Frank Schott Stone Barn in far western Minnesota on an early May morning.
Backed by the Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, Valley Grove Church sits in one of the darkest parts of southern Minnesota, creating the perfect foreground for a night of Milky Way astrophotography.