by Mohammad Al-Mumen

This is not Catherine Zeta-jones Star but it is the stars of Zeta, a small place next to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. I stacked 240 images of 30-sec star trail images to get the total exposure.

Equipment: Nikon D700

Mohammad Al-Mumen

by Marc Adamus

Night sky featuring the Milky Way over peaks and cascades in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

Equipment: Canon 1Ds Mark III, 16-35 f/2.8 II

Marc Adamus

I am a professional landscape photographer based in the Northwest US. My love in life is wilderness. I seek to bring my experiences to you through photography.

by Orvaratli

The night was perfectly calm so we went to Lake Kleifarvatn. It started of quietly but around 11pm the show started. It lasted for an amazing 1 hour. Frame after frame we shot. Re-framing and re-positioning is not that common while shooting Aurora because they usually come in short bursts. This time it was different. This is what I consider my best frame from that awesome session.
Settings:
Aperture: f3.5
Shutter:25 sec
ISO: 800

Equipment: Canon 30D – Canon EFS 10-22mm @ 10mm

Orvaratli

by Orvaratli

The freezing cold during the last couple of weeks has frozen all lakes and ponds and often covers them with snow as well. The ocean is the only thing offering reflections now.
After driving around in the moonlight night shooting some Aurora, I last visited Straumur YET again. It never fails to deliver, there is always a different angle or light each time.
My canon EOS 30D camera settings:
Aperture: f4.5
Shutter speed: 10 sec
ISO: 400
Lens: Canon EF-S 10-22mm @ 15mm

Orvaratli

by Christian Klepp

The Rocky Mountains in Waterton Glacier reflect in the calm waters of a nighttime glacial lake. The starry sky at new moon sparkles like diamonds in total darkness revealing detailed insight into our galaxies central structure of dense star fields and light absorbing nebular dust. The Milky Way’s galactic center with its assumed black hole position is located just over the horizon, deeply hidden by dark clouds of interstellar dust. Thus our view on the Milky Way in the Sagittarius constellation shows a bifurcated appearance. The small but bright reddish object above is the Lagoon Nebula, M8, a star-forming region in a distance of 5200 light years. The brightest object left of the Milky Way is Jupiter. The star tracks remain visible in the lake due to the mirroring effect of tracking in the opposite direction.

Equipment: Canon 20D, Canon 10-22mm, f/3.5, static and dynamic exposure of 6 min, ISO 1600, tripod, AstroTrac TT320 digital astronomical mount

Christian Klepp

Raised in Hamburg, Germany, I very early discovered my love for pristine nature. One day my dream may come true to entirely link my photographic passion with my profession. Climate research and landscape photography is much closer linked than one might think of. Passionate photography of natures beauty opens up the heart and demands for the need to protect it. A deeper understanding for natures cause and effect and the ability of admiration leads to the urgent will to preserve the last sanctuaries on Earth. We should leave only footprints, so that the ones coming after us can still see how beautiful nature is.

by Orvaratli

Here is my wife posing as the observer.
This day the moon was shining bright, making the foreground much more visible than with non-snow, non-moon Aurora shots.

Orvaratli

by Will & Matt B-L

This photograph of a spectacled caiman was taken at night in the Brazilian Pantanal. The caiman was in a small stream waiting for unfortunate fish to pass through its open jaws. We exposed the foreground with a remote flash and then left the shutter open to capture the star trails.

Will & Matt B-L

We are brothers from the UK with a shared passion for wildlife photography.

by Mohammad Al-Mumen

This is a 2 hours exposure time to capture star trails over Taif, west of Saudi Arabia.
I used digital star trails techniqe as explained here.

Mohammad Al-Mumen

by Robbie Graham

For those interested in the technical details…
100 exposures overlaid with ’startrails.exe’ (pretty good little free tool). 30 seconds per exposure, ISO 400, F7.1. The exposure time was a compromise between over-exposing the bridge (it ends up looking a bit too red here) and getting enough stars exposed. I think in the depths of winter with a totally clear sky you could get a better balance.
There were clouds skidding over the sky – looks amazing in the camera preview screen when you whiz through all the images quickly! However this has watered down the stars a little. Still, for the Forth, I was surprised at the amount of stars that were visible. Given the amount of exposure time, all the trains and ships are reduced to lines of light.

Robbie Graham

by Juan Iglesias

Northern lights in Trollfjord, Lofoten Islands (Norway).

Equipment: Canon EOS 1 D Mark II + Canon EF 16-35 f2.8 L

Juan Iglesias

I was born in Oviedo (Spain), in 1971. I studied Biology at the Oviedo University. I worked during many years in brown bears (Ursus arctos), wolf (Canis lupus signatus) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes) research projects. Now I’m freelance wildlife photographer since 1994, especialized in wildlife and landscapes, but also travel and other reports.