few phone calls , pleaded my case , got permission and had the best night of shooting ever . The imagination runs wild in the dead of night with a star-filled sky and these monstrous contraptions pointing to the heavens . My senses had never been more alive . Perhaps the locals were right and I was being watched , but if I was , it was not by something of this Earth . “ This image is a single shot captured with a Nikon D750 . I wanted to create a sense of motion in the sky , a kind of ‘ Big Bang ’ or ‘ warp speed ’ effect , so during the 25 second exposure , I carefully zoomed the lens from 24mm to 14mm for about 5 seconds with the main image at 14mm burning into the frame for the remaining 20 seconds . Nikkor 14-24 F2.8 , ISO 8000 , on an Induro CGT214 Grand Turismo tripod . Finally the RAW image was edited in Lightroom with tweaks in clarity , saturation and other basic adjustments .”
GUIDING LIGHT
“ Living in an industrial city like Hamilton , smack in the middle of the ‘ Golden Horseshoe ’ between Toronto and Niagara , it can be challenging to find dark sky locations for astrophotography . One of the best locations from where I live is almost straight south until I hit the shores of Lake Erie . As the galactic core of the Milky Way tends to be south , a large body of water with no cities built on it gives me a fighting chance to capture some beautiful skies . Unfortunately , much of the shores of Lake Erie are developed and-or privately owned , so the locations that
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