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Devil’s throat; Iguazu Falls, Brazil. “Photographing Iguazu Falls at night has always been one of my priority projects. I needed to obtain a special authorisation. The first challenge was to walk around the park at night knowing that several jaguars live there, which are frequently seen by employees and tourists. In the area closest to the main waterfalls, the big challenge was to make long exposure images with the strong water spray from the more than 1.5m litres per second that fall through the waterfalls. Working with exposure times longer than 10 or 15 seconds became an almost impossible task and the lens was never dry. In this image, we have one of the main waterfalls of the Iguazu Falls complex, the Santa Maria Jump. Right over the fall, we can see Saturn and the zodiacal light illuminating the horizon. Further up there is the Milky Way core. We can also identify some of the main emission nebulae present in this region of the sky”. (Photo by Victor Lima/Milky Way Photographer of the Year)
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