Gorgeous!

Spectacular.  How is this done? Multiple exposures overlayed maybe?

stared at that shot for a long time. so good

Thanks so much for all your accolades.  I have been putting in a lot of time with photography since I got my first "real" camera this past February.  The Milky Way shot, for those who are interested, is pretty complex.  I took 12 shots of the night sky at around 9 pm (at 22 sec with 1 sec delay between each.)  Then I went to sleep for a few hours and woke up around 1:30 am to an 80% moon.  With the camera left as it was on the tripod, I then shot the same set up but with different exposure, focus point, ISO, aperture etc. to capture the foreground under the moonlight.  Back home I stacked the 12 night sky exposures.  This considerably reduces the noise, inherent to shooting at ISO 3200.  Then I took that shot and blended it with the moonlit foreground shot and voila!  By the way, MagicPaddler, the star shine on the water actually is consistent.  It comes from the bright star directly above it in the sky.  It does look kind of weird and I had considered removing it but, in the end, I left it.

Oh good gracious, who let the professional in? Just to add my compliment: Simply amazing.

And yes, this is going to knock out the screen-saver picture of my daughter hitting the winning shot in the championship of the Kentucky high school basketball tournament.

For now, at least.

-- kypaddler