The summer Milky Way over the Log Cabin at the Reesor Ranch, July 16, 2013. This is a stack of 5 x 4 minute tracked exposures for the sky + one 4 minute untracked exposure for the ground. Each at f/2.8 with the 15mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600.
The Milky Way with Sagittarius and Scutum star clouds, over misty Reesor Lake in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, July 13/14, 2013. This is a single 30-second untracked exposure (not a composite) with the 24mm lens at f/2 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. I painted the foreground mist with a white LED flashlight.
A 12-section panorama of the night sky at the Reesor Lake picnic area, in the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, taken July 13/14, 2013. A display of Northern Lights illuminates the northern sky above the hills. The lake is covered with a mist, as a foreground to the Milky Way in the south. Each segment was a 30-second untracked exposure at f/2 with the 24mm lens and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 3200. Dark frames subtracted.