This image was taken on March 31, 2019, along a stretch of the Dalton Highway north of Fairbanks, Alaska, nicknamed ‘The Enchanted Forest’. While I got many nice photos of the aurora while I was there, this is my favorite because the trees and snow provided a nice foreground to the curtains of auroral light overhead. It was taken with a Nikon D850 DSLR and the Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens, at 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200, 3 sec.

This is my favorite image of 2023 because it is the best meteor shower image that I have ever taken. Lake Irene in Rocky Mountain National Park provided an ideal foreground for the Perseid Meteors on August 12-13, 2023. This image is a composite of 48 exposures taken over a four hour period.