The waxing crescent Moon over Vermilion Lakes, Banff, Alberta, on August 4, 2011. This is an HDR stack of 5 exposures at 2/3rds stop intervals to capture the dark foreground detail and the bright Moon on one image. Lights from passing traffic on Highway 1 above the lakes produced the streak at right.
The waxing gibbous Moon over Sulphur Mountain and the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Taken July 10, 2011 from hotel overlook viewpoint on Tunnel Mountain Drive in Banff, Alberta in evening twilight with high cirrus cloud. This is a 3-image HDR stack of exposures with the Canon 7D and 16-35mm lens. Exposures were 0.5, 1.3 and 3.2 seconds at ISO 100 and f/5.6 and 25mm lens setting. Combined in Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro.
9-day-old gibbous Moon, taken April 23, 2010, with Astro-Physics 130mm apo refractor, plus 2x Barlow for f/12 and 1600mm focal length. Canon 7D camera at ISO 100. Seeing poor -- this was the sharpest of the lot.
