As the first part of this project, I wanted to show the night landscapes of the area where I live. Greater Poland is a historical region of west-central Poland with long traditions. This region possesses its own distinctive folk costumes, architecture, cuisine, dialect, and other traditions that differ from other parts of Poland. When it comes to the natural landscape, the area is mostly flat, with lots of lakes and some rivers. Some people might say it's nothing special, but I live here so I try to find those "special places" and show them to others. This time, I have "painted" those places with unnatural light, showing their beauty at night.

The name of this project is in Latin, not because I know Latin or because I wanted to be so cool by using Latin names. In this way, I wanted to refer to the work of Reuben Wu, whose project "Lux Noctis" was a very strong inspiration for me when creating this series and the greatest motivation to start painting my landscape photos with a light from a drone.

It took me 4 months to capture those 10 photos as I wanted to show the New Moon in one part of the project. All photos in this series were taken with the same 35mm lens and a full-frame camera to keep perspective consistency. The moon, stars, and other night sky elements are in their original positions. I have not added them in Photoshop, but obviously I've sometimes merged a few shots to get the final frame (Perseids, for example). Light lines are the actual drone path—this wasn't added in Photoshop either.

I hope you will enjoy this series and hopefully, Lumina Desuper will continue.