Asiago Plateau, Italy Photograph by Vittorio Poli, Your ShotThe small town where I live (Asiago plateau, Italy) is shrouded in fog in this image taken from the top of a mountain.
Green Light Photo and caption by Teava MagyariIt was during a dark winter night in the northern part of Scandinavia. I had always dreamt of seeing these magical lights. Download wallpaper for: Your Monitor iPad iPhone 4
Milky Way Shadows Photo and caption by Alex CherneyFar away from man-made lights the Port Campbell National Park (Victoria, Australia) is very dark on a moonless night. The stars in centre our Milky Way Galaxy are the most significant source of light which helped to create dark reflections on the water in the middle of the frame. To render the dark scene close to what I saw I took 7 consecutive 15-second exposures in under 2 minutes interval. The sky in the exposures was de-rotated to compensate for the rotation of Earth, then images were stacked together producing an image identical to a single exposure but with less digital noise.
White Sands, Black Mountains, Red Sunset, Milky Way Photo and caption by James LeeA single 30 second exposure. My LED headlamp lit the white sand dune. Residual sunlight from a sun already set lit the horizon and clouds while the stars and Milky Way galaxy revealed themselves up above.
Mining Camp, Chile Photograph by Tomás MunitaThe Chilean desert and highlands are littered with abandoned mining towns. Near the Bolivian border, the volcano Aucanquilcha looms over the remains of Buenaventura, which operated as a sulfur-mining camp through most of the 20th century.
Cows, Netherlands Photograph by Jorinde van Ringen, My ShotI was taking photos of a couple of trees and when I walked back to my car I was followed by this herd of nosey cows. I had already packed all my equipment in the car but I had to take a photo of this. They lined up perfectly for me as if they were posing. I was really lucky with the weather as well. Download Wallpaper (1600 x 1200 pixels)
Explosive Aurora Photograph by Thilo Bubek Sparked by charged particles that had been ejected by the sun three days earlier, an aurora borealis streaks into view in the wee hours of September 15 over Ersfjord, Norway. The same night, similar shows enlivened skies over northern Canada and elsewhere in Europe. When a charged-particle cloud enters the upper atmosphere of Earth, it smashes into and breaks up gas molecules, creating the northern lights (or in the Southern Hemisphere, the southern lights). “Like gas inside a neon sign, as the atoms smash together they begin to glow—producing a great light show,” Manuel said. The colors a sky-watcher sees depends on what type of gas is being hit and how high it is. For example, the green aurora pictured was the result of oxygen-atom collisions about 60 to 120 miles (100 to 200 kilometers) up.