Serene landscape of Milky Way arch at sunset spanning over a lavender field, a Fine Art photograph by Philip Richard

Galactic Allegory

First, the goal was a lavender field in Provence under a starry sky… then the geometric harmony between the galactic arch and the perspective of the lavender rows … finally I realized that the parallel went further ... in a truly dizzying illustration of the plurality of worlds ..."

There are a thousand times more stars in our galaxy than the number of tiny lavender seeds in this vast field! » We're in one of these tiny grains, lost in the midst of this very concrete multitude, wondering "what's going on in the other tiny grains? »

You see the little yellow glow at the tip of a lavender stalk in the bottom of the image ?
This is us !

Author: Philip Richard
Fine art photograph size: 5.8 Mpixels (16.6 MB uncompressed) - 2560x2263 pixels (8.5x7.5 in / 21.7x19.2 cm at 300 ppi)