Orion, at left, in moonlight and brightening morning twilight over the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park, with Athabasca and Dome Glaciers on the morning of Sept 13, 2014. The waning gibbous Moon is just off the frame to the top. This is a panorama made of 4 untracked images, each with the 24mm lens for 10 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 800 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui. Though hard to see, there are a couple of spots of light on the glacier on Mt. Athabasca at left from headlamps from climbers ascending before dawn. I was able to watch their lights moving up the mountain while I was doing this pre-dawn shoot.
Orion setting in March over Mt Temple near Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta. Taken in full moonlight with Plaubel Makina 6x7 camera, Fujichrome Velvia 50 slide film, 120-format, 80mm lens at f/5.6 and about 25 minute exposure. taken from Bow Valley viewpoint on Bow Valley Parkway. Taken March 1995.
A 360° panorama of the night sky and prairie landscape from the Visitor Centre and farmyard at the Old Man on His Back Prairie & Heritage Conservation Area in southwest Saskatchewan. The Milky Way arches across the eastern sky from north to south, while an aurora display (faint to the naked eye) glows in an arch of green and magenta across the northern horizon. The pioneer house was built in the 1920s and this was a working ranch until the 1990s when the land was turned over to the Nature Conservancy of Canada to turn into a natural area to preserve the short grass prairie habitat. This a stitch of 8 segments, each a 1 minute untracked exposure at f/3.5 with the 15mm lens and ISO 4000 with the Canon 6D. Stitched with PTGui software. I shot these May 18, 2015.
