Sorry, but I find it rather overdone.
Also, not my type of favorite. Even if you disregard the style of development. All in one photo: interesting foreground, great main motif and the Milky Way as background. I’m more of a fan of minimalism. I also appreciate creative new approaches.
That’s an impressive image, especially considering the logistics of the capture, and the processing involved in stitching so many images.
I think astrophotography often has an unreal, processed look. Especially when it has a prominent foreground element. In most genres of photography the image has less dynamic range than the human eye can perceive. Astrophotography is different in presenting more dynamic range. (more than you’d see if you were standing beside the camera i mean).
Neither the composition with competing subjects nor the editing are to my taste, but everyone has a right to do things their way.
Okay, being a Tasmanian and often having taken my students to this very same waterfall for photography lessons I appreciate the challenge of what he has achieved and the effort he has invested into the capture. I presume it is not just an AI generation but is a genuine photographic based image. So from this Taswegian I say well done.
He says he has a tracking mount for his camera rig, for capturing the milky way.
What does it say when you’re not sure?
Sadly that is the new world we live in. Songs, music, video, photographs, documents, even the voice on the other end of the phone we can’t be sure is not AI generated.