A pre-dawn display of noctilucent clouds on the morning of June 23, 2014, two days after solstice. The NLC clouds are low in the northeast, in the twilight, but the entire sky is blue with perpetual twilight. The Big Dipper is at upper left, the Little Dipper and Polaris at top centre. This is a single 10 second exposure at f/2.8 with the 16-35mm lens at 16mm and Canon 6D at ISO 1600.
An iridium satellite flare, on the night of summer solstice eve, June 20, 2014, shot from home. This is a single exposure of 25 seconds, at f/2.8 and ISO 3200 with the Canon 16-35mm and Canon 6D. The sky is illuminated by perpetual twilight, the ground by distant lightning, and the clouds in part by light pollution from farm lights and highway lights.
An image of dancing fireflies beneath a starry sky, on summer solstice eve, June 20, 2014, on a stormy night with many thunderstorms about. To the southeast here skies were clear but clouds and another storm was moving in from the west at right. But it was a warm night so the fireflies were dancing, caught here as the green lights trailing in the foreground. The sky is bright from perpetual twilight and the ground is partly lit by distant lightning. The forground is a stack of 3 exposures to add more firefly lights, but the sky is just one exposure, 25s at ISO 3200 at f/2.8 with the 16-35mm lens and Canon 6D.
