This Labour Day, Angela and I spent the weekend at the Verhoeven's cottage on Baptiste Lake, near Bancroft. The very first night we were treated to one of the best aurora borealis shows that I have ever seen. The cottage is on the lake and it faces due north, so the view was fantastic. I quickly grabbed my camera and tripod and did my best to photograph the event before it disappeared. So, this is a view from the dock across Baptiste Lake on that night.

This was shot with the Rebel XT + kit lens at 18mm, ISO-800, f/3.5, 18 second exposure. I would have preferred to use my new Canon 1.8 prime lens, but unfortunately I didn't pack it as I wasn't expecting to do any astrophotography.

Comments

Hello Mike,

This picture looks fantastic!!!  Could you pleas email me some of
the pictures you took this past weekend?
Thank you, Teresa

The aurora looks really good when I tilt my LCD screen back and forth.

Simply Fantastic

Teresa Verhoeven   where are you from? my email is pumpenai@yahoo.com
Write me
:) May you are from Holland?

I guess every web site eventually devolves into a personals site.