The waxing crescent Moon, just over a day old, in the evening spring sky as seen from New Mexico, near Silver City, April 30, 2014. The sky was quite dark by the time I took this set, revealing the stars as well as the illuminated Earthshine on the dark side of the Moon. Aldebaran and the Hyades are at left, and the Pleiades at right of the Moon. The sky was also quite hazy from wind-borne dust earlier in the day. In this case, headlights from an approaching car lit the trees. Very handy! This is a high dynamic range stack of 6 images at 2/3 stop intervals from 2 to 20 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 800 with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D. Stacked in Photoshop HDR Pro and tone mapped in Adobe Camera Raw 32 bit mode.
Sunset twilight colours and the waxing gibbous Moon over the Chiricahua Mountains in southeast Arizona, south of Willcox. Taken December 15, 2013 on Highway 186. Taken with the 24mm lens and Canon 5D MkII. Some dark crepuscular rays are visible converging to the anti-solar point.
