The nearly Full Moon (0ne day before Full) rising at the end of Bow Lake, with purple flowers (Purple Saxifrage?) in the foreground. Taken August 9, 2014. This is an HDR High Dynamic Range stack of 5 exposures at 2/3rds stop intervals, with the Canon 16-35mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 400.
The red setting Sun in haze, casting shadows across the sky – crepuscular rays - and lighting the clouds, over a ripening wheatfield near home in Alberta. This is an HDR stack of 5 exposures, handheld, with the 24mm lens and Canon 6D, at 2/3rd stop intervals, and composited with Photomatix Pro. Taken August 6,, 2014.
The Big Dipper and Ursa Major at the end of the backroad on the summit of Mt Kobau, near Osoyoos, BC, taken at the Mt Kobau Star Party, July 28, 2014. A meteor streaks down at left. This is a stack of two exposures, with the 24mm lens at f/2.5 and Canon 6D at ISO 6400, but one for the sky at 40 seconds and one for the ground at 1m40s to expose more detail in the ground lit only by starlight.