Iain Leitch Photography

 For the first time since Covid-19 hit in March 2020, I was able to go back up to Red Pine Camp on Golden Lake. I didn't really see much to photograph this time as all of the birds were high up in the trees and refusing to come down. So instead on my last night there, the clouds disappeared and I was able to capture this beautiful photo of the milky way over Golden Lake. With very little light pollution this was a great location for this type of photography. 

This is part 2/4 in the series called Hunting Camp. This part of the series focuses on the stars and the night sky. The Hunting Camp is just south of Algonquin park which means that the night sky is amazing. Without any city lights to interfere it is possible to see almost everything.  The first photo is just a normal star picture that I took overlooking the main lake that we use. The bright star down near the bottom right is Jupiter, you are also able to see Saturn and Mars in this picture too but they are over on the bottom left and not as bright. It is also possible to see the milky way on the left side of the picture too. The bright glow is what I think is city lights coming from possibly Bancroft or maybe even as far away as Ottawa or Toronto but I'm not too sure. The second picture is a star trails one. This one photo is over 200 photos stacked on top of each other using StarStaX. I had to crop this photo on the left due to the sheer amount of planes. This...