Crux, the Southern Cross, and the Pointers caught in a beam of light from the Smoky Cape Lighthouse, NSW, Australia. I shot this in the deep blue of a late twilight. But the Milky Way is showing up. The beam is from the lighthouse behind the camera, but it is shining out to sea and seems to be lighting a small rocky island with its own small lighthouse on it. This is a single 1.6-second exposure at f/1.4 and ISO 12800 — wide and fast to prevent the sweeping beam from blurring too much.
Crux, the Southern Cross, at top, and the Pointer Stars, at bottom, over the Pacific Ocean in deep blue twilight from the Smoky Cape Lighthouse viewpoint. The Milky Way is just visible. The globular cluster Omega Centauri is at left. This is a single exposure for 5 seconds at f/2 and ISO 6400 with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D.
Beams from the Smoky Cape Lighthouse in the twilight sky, beaming out beside the stars of the Southern Cross and the Pointers (Alpha and Beta Centauri) below, rising into the southeast sky in the deepening blue twilight. The Lighthouse is near South West Rocks on Trial Bay on the coast of NSW, Australia. The lighthouse has a pattern of three closely spaced beams followed by a longer gap. The lenses project three sets of three beams, one set shooting here toward the camera, and two others shooting away from the camera out to sea. This is a single 0.6-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 6400.
