A full 360° panorama looking south at sunset from the Howse Pass Viewpoint near Saskatchewan River Crossing on the Icefields Parkway at the David Thompson Highway 11 intersection. The scene includes the North Saskatchewan River, the peaks of the Continental Divide to the south including Mt. Cephren, and Mt. Murchison at left. Howse Pass, site of the famous passage used for a time by David Thompson in the fur trade in the early 1800s, is at right. The river plain here was also a sacred site for the Pikanii First Nation people. I shot the frames for this 12-section panorama August 12, 2014 using the Canon 5D MkII and Rokinon 14mm lens, portrait orientation, and stitched them with PTGui.
A 360° fish-eye panorama of the winter sky in mid-February, shot from home in southern Alberta. Orion is to the south at bottom, with the winter Milky Way arcing across the sky from southeast, at bottom, to northwest, at top. A faint glow of Zodiacal Light extends across the sky from west (right) to east (left). Urban sky glow lights the sky to the west. To the north at top, an auroral arc extends along the horizon. The Big Dipper is at upper left in the northeast. Polaris is at top centre. Venus is bright and setting low in the west at right. Leo is rising in the east at left. This is a stitch of 6 segments, each shot with the Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8, for 30 seconds each at ISO 6400 with the Nikon D750. Stitched with PTGui.
Dinosaur Park in Alberta, at moonrise on May 26, 2013, with a weak aurora to the north. Lighting is from the rising nearly Full Moon off frame to the right and twilight to the left. A stack of 100 frames from a 370-frame time-lapse, each frame at 20 seconds at f/4 with the Canon 10-22mm lens at 10mm and Canon 60Da at ISO 1250. Combined in Long Streak mode with StarCircleAcademy Advanced Star Trails
