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Placed 10^th in the challenge. Composite of 120 star trail images and 1 landscape shot.

Placed 12^th in the challenge. Wild cat doing what comes naturally!

Wow thanks Ben, appreciate your positive feedback, makes it worth trying these mad experiments! Good luck with getting to NZ it is an amazing place.

Thanks a lot, I suppose if everyone liked the same things it would be a boring World...?

See my comment below for the shooting specs, I should have checked the info when I uploaded the pic sorry.

Thanks so much Mark, I keep hankering after a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 but I can't complain about the 18-55mm. Be interesting to see what a wider angle might get but they're not cheap!

Sure, what sort of size would you like? I could do an A4 for minimal cost...(NZ$20 + postage). Could look into prices for larger prints. Thanks

Dead right! This is a composite of 121 images! 120 x 30s exposures for the star trails and 1 for the camp scene. The EXIF data is from the last image in the comp... the camp fire.

My first winner!!!! Thanks all for your votes and kind comments, was worth the effort in the end.

Placed 43^rd in the challenge.

Sure, I did this as an experiment... not sure I have the patience to do it again! I set the camera to automatically take a 30s exposure every 33s (this seemed to be the fastest time the camera...

Sure, I did this as an experiment... not sure I have the patience to do it again! I set the camera to automatically take a 30s exposure every 33s (this seemed to be the fastest time the camera...

Placed 2^nd in the challenge.

Placed 1^st in the challenge.