Starry Night...

I went out about midnight to find a place away from town to try and photograph the Orionid meteor shower. The sky was clear and the moon had set a little earlier.

I found a large oak tree, framed the shot and made exposures of about 25 seconds.

 

 

I was trying something new for me. In the past I had used low iso settings and long exposure times of minutes and hours to create star trails. This time I was using an iso of 3200 and 25 second exposures to try and capture the sky more as the eye sees it.

 

 

I was seeing lots of meteors but wasn't able to capture them in my images. I did capture this photo of light from a farmhouse diffused through trees.

 

 

It was a beautiful night to be out in northern Wisconsin.

 

 

Before heading home I found this large white pine tree in a field. I still didn't capture the meteors as they fell just out of frame, but I heard several packs of coyotes singing in the distance. All in all it was a very good night.







 

No pain in the aspen

Many trees had already lost their leaves by the time decent fall color showed up near Clam Lake Wisconsin.

So I was pleased to find this stand of quaking aspen

 

 

 

 

 

Looking resplendent in gold against the blue afternoon sky. 

 

I was near Clam Lake to try and photograph wild Wisconsin elk and finally found a lone bull just after sunset.

 

 



 

 

Still no elk, but a little fall color

I hadn't had much luck photographing Wisconsin elk near Clam Lake.


 

So I decide to try the fall color. 

 

 

I found pockets of maple trees with beautiful leaves of gold and orange.

 

As a few clouds moved across the sky.

 

 

After photographing the colorful trees I resumed my search for elk before the sun set.

 

 

I didn't find any elk, but I did capture these jet contrails reflected in the water at sunset.

 

 

And a little bit of color just before dark.