I shot this one around 10:30pm. I got pretty bored standing in the middle of a field for 25 minutes :p
Post Processing: Raw conversion, higher blacks contrast for the sky, mask the two layers together (sky & ground), crop, dodge & burn ground, increase contrast & decrease brighness in sky, add vignette, lighten up hay bails, Neat Image several times, resize, USM, border.
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A tough one to do with this lighting but the halos on the horizon distrac. I wonder about the star trails which are great! yet I wonder why what appears to be stars tht are not producing any significnt star trails ~ could it be dead pixels on your sensor?