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Rich Jay is a New Jersey-based photographer with a love of low-light photography. A graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he began his journey into photography in 2017. While on a trip to the Allegheny Plateau in Pennsylvania to marvel at the Milky Way core in Cherry Springs, he realized that a large majority of the NY/NJ/PA tri-state had never seen the Milky Way because of the massive light pollution that blankets most of the East Coast. The following year, he returned to Cherry Springs with a DSLR and a tripod and, with his understanding of optics, began to memorialize the night sky. Friends and family were awed by the funny-looking clouds that are the Milky Way core and inspired more trips and greater mastery of this category of photography. During the fall and winter, when the Milky Way was no longer visible in the northern hemisphere, he began to document his second interest, abandoned and derelict automobiles. Using a shallow depth of field, unique angl