The Astrophotographer At Work. Photographed September 6, 2013.
While out photographing our Milky Way galaxy in the middle of the night I happened to notice some color coming from the North and sure enough it was the familiar green and purple hues of the Northern Lights spiking up. Although I could barely see this display with the naked eye, the camera picked it up quite well as usual. The bright lights and other colors on either side of the aurora are man-made light pollution coming from Augusta, Maine which is 20 miles away from where I was shooting. The Northern section of the Milky Way can easily be seen on the right hand side of this image which is a composite of two different exposures, one for the sky and one for the foreground road and fields. Sky: Nikon D600 & 14-24 @ 14mm f/2.8 - 30 secs - ISO 2000 05/08/14 – 3:09AM Foreground: Nikon D600 & 14-24 @ 14mm f/2.8 - 90 secs - ISO 1600 05/08/14 – 3:20AM
The Electric Sky above Park Loop Road in Acadia National Park. This is 15 frames of stacked star trails with a lot of "bling" added via Star Spikes. Photographed May 5, 2013.
