The Big Dipper and Polaris witha faint green and purple aurora in the north, from the Reesor Ranch looking north to the prairie from Cypress Hills. This is a single frame from a time-lapse movie, taken with the Canon 60Da at ISO 1600 and 10-22mm lens at f/3.5 for 60 seconds.
Looking north July 12, 2013 from the Log Cabin at Reesor Ranch, at 3 am as morning twilight was beginning to brighten and blue the northern sky. A faint aurora glows along the horizon. This is a stack of 5 x 2 minute tracked exposures with the foreground from one of the exposures to minimize blurring. With the Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600 and 14mm Samyang 14mm lens at f/2.8.
The old Atlas Coal Mine near East Coulee, Alberta, now a museum and tourist attraction. This is a composite of 20 x 1 minute exposures with the Canon 5D MkII and 16-35mm lens at 16mm and f/2.8, and ISO 1250. Taken June 27, 2013. While the Moon was up it was in some cloud and most of the illumination of the foreground comes from a sodium vapour light just off camera at right.
