I stacked ten images in Starry Landscape Stacker to reduce noise and enhance detail.
Canon 80D 15.0 sec at f /2.8 ISO 2500 on the Rokinon 14mm lens.

A nice feature of the Photopills app is that I can look back at certain dates and locations to find sunset and blue hour information for my photos. I also used it to plan this image just after we arrived.

The benefit of fall Milky Way photography is that you can catch the golden hour, sunset, blue hour, and the Milky Way Core within a few hours and fall asleep reasonably early. On this night, the sunset was at seven, and the core was visible from eight-thirty to ten-thirty. I took this image around 9

155 image time-lapse October 6, 2025
Canon EOS 6D 1/80 sec at f/8.0 ISO 100 on the Canon EF 70-300mm f-4-5.6 IS II USM Lens.

This time-lapse was taken a few hours after the moon peaked above the horizon. Sometimes I like to set up my camera, take a picture every few seconds, and let the Moon slowly move out of frame. There is something sad and beautiful about the darkness it leaves behind.

20 seconds without a tracker will trail a little on a 14mm lens. If you aren’t experienced looking for trails, you may want to go for 30 seconds or a minute. 
 
Canon 6D 20.0 seconds at f /3.2 ISO 5000 on the Rokinon 14mm lens

 
 

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This was a test shot for my tracker to check that everything was in focus, not trailing, and well-exposed before I lowered the ISO and lengthened the time.  You always want to check everything before waiting 3 minutes and then realizing something is wrong.

There is something I like about making the sky the start of the show, though. Maybe because it reminds me of my first images when just seeing the stars pop up on my viewfinder in focus was all I wanted.

This image is blended, tracked, and stacked. The stars were tracked on the iOptron Sky Tracker Pro.⠀
The stars are eight tracked images that were stacked in Photoshop. 

 Canon 6D and Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens

Stars- 200 seconds, f/3.2, ISO 400
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Light painted foreground- 30s at f /3.5 ISO 400

So, a special happy Mother's Day to you, Mom. I love you.  

 A few years ago, I was taking pictures the night my cousin gave birth to her long-awaited baby. This is what the stars looked like the minute he was born. It was fun to put this together and give her a print for her first Mother's Day.

Single Image captured in May of 2022
Canon 6D 1/80 sec ISO 250 on the Celestron Nexstar 4SE telescope with a camera adapter. The 4SE has a focal length of 1325 mm.

I took some artistic license with the placement of the Milky Way.

This is a composite image 
The stars were taken on a Canon 6D, 263s at f /3.5, ISO 640 on the Rokinon 14mm lens
 The foreground was taken on a Canon 80D 28 mm1/250 s at f /11 ISO 320 at 28 mm on the Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

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Please take a quiet moment to enjoy the beauty of our world or the night sky this weekend, and choose to hope. May your best days be yet to come.

Canon 6D 30.0 sec at f/4.0 ISO 6400 on the Rokinon 14mm lens