Alouette Lake by abirkill

Alouette Lake

A panorama of Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park, taken last weekend.

This panorama consists of 18 photographs for the sky, taken at f/2.8, ISO 4000, and 6 photographs for the ground, taken at f/2.8, ISO 800.

The lights on the horizon are from campers, and I managed to capture a shooting star in the upper left corner of the shot. A lot of aircraft were passing over, but I was able to avoid capturing any in this panorama.

The timing for this shot was tricky, as the park gate is closed at 11, but astronomical dusk wasn't until around 9:35. Taking this series of shots took about 28 minutes, with the shutter closing on the final shot at 10:46pm, leaving me 14 minutes to run the best part of a kilometer back to the car, and drive a further 8 kilometers to the gate! Happily I made it with two minutes to spare (and yes, the ranger was parked at the gate waiting!)

Not an amazing shot -- rather a lot of skyglow -- but I like the reflections of the stars in the lake, and I've been working on it for most of the week so I figured I should post it!

See the stars by viewing it large!
I think it's rather amazing!
April 6th, 2013  
Worth the wait and the rush to exit! I love the stars' reflection as well, and the POV. Bravo!
April 6th, 2013  
another gorgeous shot!! I think your night sky shots are the best on 365. They are always amazing.
April 6th, 2013  
Fantastic and those stars and their reflections are brilliant.
April 6th, 2013  
Stunning!
April 6th, 2013  
great capture!
April 6th, 2013  
Fabulous capture! :)
April 6th, 2013  
Glorious! What a lot of effort you put into your shots.
April 6th, 2013  
This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing the info on how you accomplish this type of photo
April 6th, 2013  
Stunning!!
April 6th, 2013  
beautiful!
April 6th, 2013  
You are amazing!! Wish I have your skills!! :-)
April 6th, 2013  
Awesome
April 7th, 2013  
The star reflections are very cool.
April 7th, 2013  
You definitely put a lot of effort into this and it paid off. Really interesting technique.
April 7th, 2013  
gorgeous!
April 7th, 2013  
Looks like the reflections came out nicely. Are you sure that's a shooting star and not a satellite? The path looks kind of curved, or is that just a result of the projection.
April 7th, 2013  
Terrific stuff!!! FAV!
April 7th, 2013  
Well worth the effort. I like this a lot.
April 8th, 2013  
This looks like those nights that you get to lay below the stars when your out camping, it's exactly what you'd see! Beautiful shot, love the reflections
April 16th, 2013  
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