• Chris Marler
    Chris Marler
    This is a composite shot taken in November at Skogafoss Falls in Iceland. It’s my favorite of 2019 because I’ve been trying to capture the northern lights for years, and I was finally able to do that on this trip. I used the technique Brad taught us by combining a long exposure foreground shot with a 20 second sky shot.
  • Bill Mickle
    Bill Mickle
    This is a shot of another surreal landscape, similar to Bisti, yet unique. It makes me feel like I am relaxing on a Martian landscape, listening to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd - a very calming effect.
  • David Wilson
    David Wilson
    This is a picture take on a tour in Armenia to the Garni Temple at night. The Garni temple was built in the first or second century and was destroyed by an earthquake in 1679. It was reconstructed in 1969-1975 by the Russians. Garni is the only remaining pagan temple in Armenia. On the tour we had 15 minutes to explore. In those 15 minutes, I pulled up starwalk 2, figured out where the milky way was and found it to be standing nearly vertical.
  • Yoshiki Nakamura
    Yoshiki Nakamura
    This is from Mt. Rainier when the moon began shedding light on the mountain top.
  • Christine Whitten
    Christine Whitten
    This is a composite panorama shot at Yosemite national Park October 2019 at about 11 pm. The rest of the photography group I was with had tired after a long day shooting fall colors. Everyone was anxious to leave as dawn and the next photo shoot would come all too soon. As they were packing the cars, I fired off a series of 6 shots as quick as I could, shooting blindly overhead in the dark and not having enough time to bracket for a separate foreground exposure. Although grainy, I am very pleased with the results. It's also fun that I caught the Andromeda Galaxy.
  • Esther Fleming
    Esther Fleming
    I took this in Arizona during monsoon season. I liked the starry sky with the thunderstorm below. After a long day of storm chasing, we were headed to the hotel when this one last storm popped up. We pulled off the interstate and started shooting. I was delighted when I saw the opportunity for stars. It turned out to be one of my favorite pictures of the trip.
  • Carol Gaupp
    Carol Gaupp
    This doesn't match the nighttime photography theme, but is the shot of the year for me. While canoeing in the BWCA in Northern Minnesota this past September, we came across this adult loon attempting to swallow an enormous smallmouth bass. The battle between the loon and fish took about four minutes before it was swallowed whole. It needed to be lined up yet right (head first). I like this shot because of the details, the water pouring out of the mouth of the doomed fish, etc. Ended up being published in the Star Tribune newspaper.
  • Howard Goldman
    Howard Goldman
    Sony Ar7ii late at night after dinner at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario. Light pollution from Thunder Bay on the right. Remember Mars was prominent in summer, 2019. We anchored the boat in a bay to the right.
  • Christine Rudkin
    Christine Rudkin
    I chose this picture because even though this lighthouse in the Outer Banks has been shot many times I really liked the composition and the fact that it was without the Milky Way. It does have a funny story behind it, while I shot it I had no idea if I was staying in a remote beach house without a car alone with a serial murderer. (he wasn’t) So this shot also has a sense of fear to me.
  • Tim Herring
    Tim Herring
    The dark skies of SE Oregon were my go to location in 2019, with four visits during the year. Several of the trips were to experiment with new gear combinations, mounting vintage fish-eyes on a new mirror-less body, pushing f/5.6 lenses with new sensors, or trying really fast glass under the stars. The heavy green air glow made it a challenging year, still figuring out the best way to adapt to it. In the fall I hoped to be there when a land speed record would chased, but the day before I was to go they tragically had a crash that claimed the drivers life. I postponed my trip until a month later and enjoyed crisp nights with brilliant stars, and a somber visit to lake bed. This image sums up the year, great skies under the watch of the Steens, with tracks leading to who knows where. caelum certe patet
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