Orion at right, rising into the dawn sky on an August morning at Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, August 26, 2019. The waning crescent Moon is bright in the clouds at left. Castor and Pollux in Gemini are at left of the tree,; Procyon is rising to the right of the tree. Taken from the Two Trees Road — this is one of the trees! This is a stack of 5 exposures for the ground to smooth noise, and one exposure for the sky. All with the Nikon D750 and Sigma 24mm lens for 15 seconds at f/2.5 and ISO 1600.
The rising of the almost exactly Full Moon on July 16, 2019, the 50th Anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. The scene is looking over a green field of wheat for a minimalist landscape. A few hours before this moonrise, the Moon was partially eclipsed as seen over Europe, Africa and Asia, just about everywhere but here in North America. This is a single exposure with the Sony a7III through the A&M 80mm apo refractor at f/6 (for 480mm focal length), taken after I shot a 6-minute 4K video of the moonrise from horizon to this point. This is shot from the gravel pit hill south of home.
The almost Full Moon beside Jupiter as they rise out of clouds and are reflected in Maskinonge Pond at Waterton Lakes National Park on June 16, 2019. I shot this during a photo workshop I was conducting that night. This was a very contrasty scene requiring HDR techniques (what I used here) or luminosity mask blending. This is a 5-exposure HDR stack to record the dark foreground and bright sky, merged with Adobe Camera Raw with ghost removal off – with it on it left patches of high noise areas where the image came from only one exposure. Vignette applied with Zone System Express, noise reduction with Neat Image, and a soft Orton glow applied with Luminar Flex.
