I put this under art because it's going to have more pictures than words. That's basically the guide as to what category I choose. Anyway, straight to the point:

I was out at my parents last night (returning mum's car which she had kindly leant to me for a couple of weeks) and I happened to notice that it was a very dark and freezing night. Forgetting to take warm clothes helped with this revelation. Well as some of you might know, on a moonless night it's quite possible to see the Milky Way, (looking back towards the center of our galaxy you can see a cloud of stars across the night sky). If you haven't seen it, here is a picture of roughly how it looks to the naked eye.



And another brighter one done with the 50mm lens (so wide apature and high ISO letting me use a relatively short shutter speed). Unfortunately this was still a 15 sec shutter so you can see the stars have moved during that time to form little lines.



Using the 50mm lens I was only able to capture a small part of the milky way in that photo so I did a longer exposure using the ultra-wide angle lens which gives a better look at the Milky Way but the stars have moved significantly over the 5 or 6 minutes so it makes everything look blurred.



And finally, something I've been wanting to do for ages but never seem to get the right weather for, a 35 minute exposure looking West taking in a large section of the night sky. Last night was still a bit windier than I would have liked but the end result is still pretty neat. I might have a bit of a tweak of this one in photoshop when I get the chance but this is the original.



As usual, feel free to request larger copies of these (instructions on how to do this are here).
Enjoy!
Maz