First of all apologies if I've entered a photo that doesn't comply with the rules - this was not intentional!! if it's causing to much hassle this month then I won't be offended if you exclude it from this months competition. Whatever the decision is it's cool with me
On the other hand and may'be something to consider going forward - A lot of people shoot HDR or bracketed images of the same scene to control the dynamic range of an image then blend them in post. I do this often as sometimes I don't have the correct filters to capture the scene in one shot.
I have also saw images in this competition in the past where the milky way has been captured really well and blended with a 2nd image where the foreground is exposed correctly. This is the exact same concept that I applied, except I took one image for the foreground, left the camera on a timer taking 184 images to capture the sense of time moving in the sky, the trails... while I sat freezing for an hour and a half waiting for it to finish haha
I've entered a star trails image before and nothing was mentioned then so i thought it was ok to enter a similar image again.
Just some food for thought going forward.
Thanks,
Graham