Orion over Mt. Athabasca (left) and Mt. Andromeda (right) at the Columbia Icefields, Jasper National Park, on the morning of Sept 13, 2014 in bright moonlight from the waning gibbous Moon off frame at upper right, and from brightening morning twilight. 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. This is a single 10 second exposure at f/2.5 with the Canon 24mm lens and Canon 6D at ISO 800.
The northern winter constellations setting in the west and the Zodiacal Light in the western evening sky, shot from Chiricahua National Monument, at Massai Point, 6800 feet, in southeastern Arizona, April 29, 2014. Orion is setting at left of centre, and Sirius is at the left edge. The Pleiades are just going down behind the ridge at right, while Aldebaran and the Hyades sit amid the spring evening Zodiacal Light. I shot this as part of a 300-frame day-to-night time-lapse sequence using the Canon 6D and 24mm lens. This is a 30-second exposure at f/4 and ISO 3200.
Orion, from Australia, March 2014, with it setting into the west. This is a stack of 4 x 4 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the 35mm lens on the Canon 60Da at ISO 800, plus two stacked exposures taken thru the Kenko Softon filter layered in for the star glows.
