14097380 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, chick just leaving the nest14097175 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14095871 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14095301 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14095587 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14095108 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14094297 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14093775 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14097789 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14097526 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14097446 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14096944 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, nest, feeding young14095905 - France, Doubs, bird, sparrow, Dipper (Cinclus cinclus), hunt his food at a small dam on the Doubs14094589 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14097535 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14097427 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14097080 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14096837 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14096410 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14096348 - France, Doubs, bird, sparrow, Dipper (Cinclus cinclus), hunt his food at a small dam on the Doubs14095273 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14094264 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14093917 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, chick just leaving the nest14093902 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14095965 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14095951 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14094488 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14094259 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14093923 - France, Doubs, bird, sparrow, Dipper (Cinclus cinclus), hunt his food at a small dam on the Doubs14093872 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, adult hunting to feed his young14093421 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14096165 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14095942 - France, Doubs, valley of the Creuse, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the brook, adult hunting to feed its young14095851 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the creek, bath14093683 - France, Doubs, Creuse valley, White throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) in the stream, chick just leaving the nest71064301 - Honey Dripping From Wood Dipper into Jar71064300 - Honey and Dipper on Wood Table14123951 - The Milky Way and the Big Dipper over South Coyote Buttes in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona.14093033 - The BIg Dipper beside moonlit Chimney Rock in the Maze District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.14125315 - Evening twilight with the Big Dipper over South Coyote Buttes in the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona.14092809 - The North Star & the BIg Dipper above a sandstone tower in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.13999490 - The all-sky aurora of May 5,2023,with rays converging at the magnetic zenith. Light from the Full Moon provides the illumination. The Big Dipper is above centre.13999468 - A colourful display of aurora on March 23,2023 during the great equinox show that night. This is looking northwest toward the Big Dipper and Little Dipper with Polaris,and with nice green and magenta curtains. The dark streak is an aircraft contrail seen in silhouette in front of the Lights.13998752 - Auroral curtains converging overhead,with the Big Dipper and Ursa Major at centre. This was February 25,2023 from the observing deck at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre,Churchill,Manitoba.13900517 - A complex of halo phenomena on the evening of April 15, 2022, Good Friday of the 2022 Easter weekend, around the almost Full Moon. Ice crystals in the high cloud created the halos and arcs, set in the spring night sky, with the Big Dipper at top, Arcturus to the left, and Regulus and Leo at right. The colours of the arcs and sundogs were just visible to the unaided eye.13900286 - Curtains of aurora during an active storm on February 18, 2018 from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in the early evening in the last of the twilight. This night the aurora was brightest early in the evening. The Big Dipper is at left.13899539 - The Big Dipper and Ursa Major over moonlit formations at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Illumination is from the waxing gibbous Moon, setting in the southwest so it is providing a warm "bronze-hour" light.13899379 - This is a moonlit nightscape of the historic Hearst Church in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, at 7000 feet altitude (thus the name “High Pines”) and on the Continental Divide. In the sky above, the Big Dipper is at right, and Polaris is at left over the church.13898568 - The fine colours of the aurora in the darkening twilight over Madeline Lake, near Yellowknife, September 7, 2019, with autumn colours on the trees on the far shore. The Big Dipper is at left.13898013 - The Big Dipper in deep sunset twilight over Reesor Lake in the Cypress Hills of southeast Alberta. Taken July 28, 2017.13897404 - Photographer Stephen Bedingfield is shooting the Northern Lights at the Ramparts waterfalls on the Cameron River, September 8, 2019. The Big Dipper is at centre. The aspen trees are nicely turning colour.13998902 - A panorama of the Northern Lights from home in southern Alberta,over a wheat field in the moonlight. Light is from the waning gibbous Moon at far right,with Jupiter the bright object to the left of the Moon. The Big Dipper is near centre. This was September 1,2023 on a Kp4 night.13998668 - A fish-eye lens image of auroral curtains and rays converging toward the zenith overhead at centre,with the camera looking straight up from the parking lot of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre. Taken February 19,2023. The Big Dipper is at centre.13998319 - The aurora of April 23,2023,looking straight up to the zenith to capture the converging curtains in a coronal display. The Big Dipper is at top.13900317 - A faint aurora glowing over the harvest in progress this night, with trucks and combines lighting the field at left, and the Harvest Moon itself - actually three days after Full Moon - lighting the scene at right. The combination of lighting from manmade and natural sources makes for an interesting illumination on the grain bins. The Big Dipper is left of centre, pointing down to Arcturus at far left, and Perseus is at right. The Pleiades are just rising over the far right bins.13900144 - The Big Dipper reflected in the still waters of the lake at Police Outpost Provincial Park, in southern Alberta, on September 26, 2016, with an aurora to the north at right. Only in autumn can one shoot the Dipper reflected in the water in the evening sky, as it is then riding low along the northern horizon. This is from a latitude of 49° N where the Dipper is circumpolar. It is also called the Plough in Great Britain.13899971 - An arc of Northern Lights appears in the evening twilight over Prelude Lake near Yellowknife, NWT, on September 9, 2019. The Big Dipper is at left. Capella is at right.13899655 - The Big Dipper over Castle Mountain, Banff, on a partly cloudy and dewy night. Taken as part of a 150-frame time-lapse. With the 24mm lens and Canon 5D MkII for 30 seconds at f/2 and ISO 1600.13898758 - Guests in the Learning Vacations program at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre view the aurora on their first night of the program for 2019 on January 31. This is looking east, with the Big Dipper at left and Orion at right.13898308 - The stars of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, over the waters of Peyto Lake, Banff, in deep twilight. Arcturus in Böotes, the Bear Driver, is setting over the peak at left. Ursa Major contains the seven stars that make up the Big Dipper, aka the Plough or the Wagon. This was October 13, 2022 on a very clear night in the Rocky Mountains.13897627 - Aurora reflected in the calm waters of Frame Lake this evening and arching over the Prince of Wales Museum in Yellowknife, NWT, on Sept 5, 2019. The Museum exterior is lit by rippling coloured LED lights that mimic the aurora. The Big Dipper and Ursa Major are above the aurora. The arc of the Lights was brighter earlier on this evening but had faded by the time I got set, but came back somewhat, as I shot here. I shot this from Somba K’e Park.13836868 - An aurora borealis and the Big Dipper constellation above a mountain peak. Andenes, Vesteralen Islands, Nordland, Norway.71429868 - Dipper feeding young in mountain stream (Cinclus cinclus), Alps, Upper Bavaria, Germany13999617 - The passage of the SpaceX G2-9 Starlink group at about 3:30 am on May 15,2023,with the satellite chain still bright five days after its May 10 launch from Vandenburgh Air Force Base in California. This is most of the group,though a bright leader satellite did pass by a minute prior following the same path. The satellites were predicted to be magntiude 3.0 but appear as bright as first magnitude stars. This is looking northwest toward the Big Dipper at top. The glow of morning twilight brightening the sky. The satellite train is traveling from left to right here,from southwest to north. This is13999481 - A fine showing of auroral curtains in the northeastern sky,with the Big Dipper and Ursa Major at upper left,with the sky and ground also illumimnated by the light of the waxing crescent Moon. This was February 25,2023 from the observing deck at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre,Churchill,Manitoba.13999239 - This wide-field image frames the end stars of the Big Dipper's handle — Mizar at top,and Alkaid at bottom — and to also include in the frame the bright galaxies Messier 101 (at left) and Messier 51 (at lower right,aka the Whirlpool Galaxy). They are small on this image scale but the image serves for a finder chart illustration of the location of these galaxies relative to the Handle. The famous double star Mizar and Alcor is also obvious at top,as is the red giant star 83 Ursa Majoris. The field is 10° x 15°,so wider than binoculars.13998900 - The northern sky over the Hoodoos badlands formations in the Red Deer River valley near Drumheller,Alberta,on a night with some aurora tinting the sky yellow and magenta,with a touch of blue. The foreground is lit partly by a yardlight nearby and car headlights. The Big Dipper is at left; Polaris and the Little Dipper are above centre; the W of Cassiopeia is at upper right.13998745 - A framing of the converging rays of aurora overhead at the magnetic zenith,a little south of the true zenith at 90° altitude. This was the superb Kp6 to 7 display on March 23,2023,with the aurora in a pulsating mode rather than forming rippling curtains. Leo is just below the convergence point. The Big Dipper is at top. At this time later in the display the rays showed a lot of red as well as green. A short exposure helped freeze the rapid pulsations and capture the structure.13900385 - The Big Dipper (at right) trailing over Pyramid Mountain in Jasper National Park, on a moonlit night on October 24/25, 2015. An Iridium satellite, in fact two following each other on the same path, streak at left.13900093 - An all-sky aurora with green and purple curtains, the night of June 7-8, 2014, starting up about 12:30 and going until dawn. This shot was near its peak, from the old barn site near home in southern Alberta. Foreground illumination is from the aurora and ambient sky -- the Moon had set. The Big Dipper is above the Barn. The purple colour is from blue scatttered sunlight hitting the red tops of the auroral curtains. This was with the 16-35mm lens at f/3.2 for 20 seconds at ISO 1600 with the Canon 6D.13899683 - Circumpolar star trails spinning behind Double Arch at Arches National Park, Utah, as the waning gibbous Moon lights the arches toward the end of the sequence. The Big Dipper is streakng into frame at top right from behind the butte at right, while Jupiter is the bright object at top left streaking down into the scene.13898793 - Circumpolar star trails on a moonlit night in the Gila National Forest in southern New Mexico, north of Pinos Altos. Polaris is at upper left, the Little Dipper hanging below it, and the stars of the Big Dipper are rising at right, with the end star of the handle still to clear the horizon. Illumination is from the waxing quarter Moon. The night had a lot of high cloud drifting through, adding the streaks and patchiness to the sky.13898704 - A group of aurora tourists take in the show at Madeline Lake, on the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife, NWT, a popular spot for the busloads of visitors being shuttled around each night. The Big Dipper is at centre.13898062 - The Columbia Icefields and Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, just before the waning Moon rose over the mountains to light the foreground, but as it was already lighting the peaks around the Icefields. The Milky Way is fading into the blue sky of a moonlit night. The Moon is rising just left of centre below the Pleiades cluster. The Big Dipper is at far left to the north.13898027 - An all-sky aurora with green and purple curtains, the night of June 7-8, 2014, starting up about 12:30 and going until dawn. This shot was near its peak, from the old barn site near home in southern Alberta. Foreground illumination is from the aurora and ambient sky -- the Moon had set. The Big Dipper is above the Barn. The purple colour is from blue scatttered sunlight hitting the red tops of the auroral curtains. This was with the 16-35mm lens at f/3.2 for 20 seconds at ISO 1600 with the Canon 6D.13897565 - A 360° fish-eye view of a sky-filling aurora on March 4, 2022 taken from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. This is looking north but with the lens taking in most of the sky including the zenith at top where the curtains are converging and swirling, and near the Big Dipper. Note the subtle nitrogen pink fringe along the lower curtain.13999655 - A fine showing of auroral curtains in the northeastern sky,with the Big Dipper and Ursa Major at upper left,with the sky and ground also illumimnated by the light of the waxing crescent Moon. This was February 25,2023 from the observing deck at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre,Churchill,Manitoba.13998877 - A particularly colourful display of aurora on March 23,2023 during the great equinox show that night. This is looking northwest toward the Big Dipper and over my house in southern Alberta.13998717 - A 180° panorama of the aurora curtains across the northern sky,on February 22,2023,from the grounds northeast of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre,in Churchill,Manitoba. This was a Kp5 level aurora this night,active from twilight on and peaking here at about 9:30 pm. Polaris is at top just left of centre. Cassiopeia is at left,the Big Dipper at right.13900261 - The stars of the Big Dipper over the iconic peak of Pyramid Mountain from Pyramid Island, a popular location in Jasper National Park, Alberta, for nightscape and aurora photography. This was on a very clear night in mid-October, 2022, with many aspen stands still in full autumn colour. The images for this scene were shot at moonrise, with the waning gibbous Moon off frame at right lighting the sky blue and landscape with warm alpenglow moonlight. As bonus, a short bright meteor and its orange "smoke" trail appeared on the sky exposures. I shot this during the first weekend of the 2022 Jasper D13900160 - Reflections of the Northern Lights in the calm and misty waters of Madeline Lake on the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife, NWT on Sept 7, 2019. This is one of a series of “reflection” images. The Big Dipper is at left. Capella is at right.13899580 - The Big Dipper in a long exposure, trailing over Peyto Lake, Banff, Alberta in a film shot from the 1990s. A single long exposure about 20 minutes on slow Fuji Velvia film.13899572 - The Northern Lights on Feb 16, 2015, as seen from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba at 58° latitude, and under the auroral oval. The aurora appeared as skies cleared somewhat during a blizzard with high winds and blowing snow conditions. I shot these from the second floor deck of the Centre, out of the wind and off the ground. Jupiter is at right, the Big Dipper at left.13899422 - Star trails over Patricia Lake and Pyramid Mountain in Jasper National Park. Moonlight provides the illumination and a faint aurora is at lower right in the northeast. The Big Dipper is the main pattern right of centre.13899054 - A panorama of Lake Edith in Jasper National Park, Alberta, on a calm autumn night, looking north to the stars of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, and the Big Dipper in deep twilight. Arcturus is at far left setting in the northwest over Pyramid Mountain, while Capella in Auriga and the stars of Perseus are rising at right in the northeast. This was on a mid-October night when the Big Dipper rides low in the northern sky from this latitude of 53° N.13898992 - The northern circumpolar sky with the Big Dipper at right rising, and Deneb in Cygnus and Vega in Lyra at left settting, over the moonlit badland hills of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, on November 27, 2017. The Dipper points up to Polaris and the Little Dipper. The Moon was a day past first quarter. Polaris and the Little Dipper are at centre, so this is looking north to the circumpolar sky.13898957 - Big Dipper stars and Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.13898535 - The constellation of Ursa Major, the Great Bear, and the asterism of the Big Dipper low in the north over Lake Edith in Jasper National Park, on a clear autumn night. Arcturus is at left setting over Pyramid Mountain.13898479 - The Northern Lights in an arc across the northern sky over the Cameron River, downriver from the Ramparts Falls. This was September 8, 2019 with the trees turning in their fall colours. The Big Dipper at top centre.13898436 - An arc of a Kp-5 aurora over a wheatfield from home in southern Alberta. The panorama takes in the northern stars, from the Big Dipper and Ursa Major at left, to the W of Cassiopeia at top right of centre, with Perseus below Cassiopeia, and Andromeda and Pegasus at right. Moonlight from the waxing gibbous Moon low in the southwest illuminates the scene. Jupiter is rising at far right low in the southeast. This was taken when the display was at its most active. An hour later as it was fading STEVE appeared in a fabulous show.13897728 - Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) over the still waters this night of Crawling Lake in southern Alberta. The Big Dipper is at top. Even in this short exposure, the two tails — dust and ion — are visible. This was July 20, 2020. The blue ion tail is extending up into the Bowl of the Big Dipper, for some 20° in length. Very impressive!13776390 - American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) wading with Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) egg in bill after scavenging it from the bottom of an Alaskan stream during autumn; Alaska, United States of America71429869 - Dipper feeding young in mountain stream (Cinclus cinclus), Alps, Upper Bavaria, Germany13999227 - A fine showing of auroral curtains in the northeastern sky,with the Big Dipper and Ursa Major at upper left,with the sky and ground also illumimnated by the light of the waxing crescent Moon. This was February 25,2023 from the observing deck at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre,Churchill,Manitoba.13998783 - A fish-eye 360° view of the Great April Aurora of April 23,2023,from home in southern Alberta,Canada. The Kp level reached 7 to 8 this day. The Big Dipper is above centre. This is looking north.13998720 - A fish-eye 360° view of the Great April Aurora of April 23,2023,from home in southern Alberta,Canada. The Kp level reached 7 to 8 this day. The Big Dipper is above centre. This is looking south.13899915 - The Big Dipper in hazy clouds over the Waterton River at Maskinonge Pond, September 23, 2016, taken at the Night Photography Workshop I conducted there that night. The glow at right is light pollution from the Shell Waterton Gas Plant and from Pincher Creek to the north.13899855 - Reflections of the Northern Lights in the calm and misty waters of Madeline Lake on the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife, NWT on Sept 7, 2019. This is one of a series of “reflection” images. The Big Dipper is at right. Arcturus is just setting over the ridge and is reflected in the water.13899019 - The Big Dipper dipping below the Badland hills on a late autumn or early winter evening at the Hoodoos in the Red Deer River valley near Drumheller, Alberta. Illumination is from the waxing gibbous Moon.next page
