Nice. How did you light up the trees?

Oh! Beautiful... the blue and white colours of the stars and the yellowish hue of the trees are interesting.

WOW! I don't know what else to say!

Awesome shot, now I really want to do a (5 minute) long exposure!

I'm amazed by how little noise there is. What did you do to avoid or fix it?

vay vayyyy fogholadeh ast,man har roz sobh be vaghte inja saat 10 sobh be wvs sar mizanam va aksatono mibinam ke avaz mikonin va akse jadid mizarin,va man ba bazi aksa vaghean halam avale sobh khob misheee,inam az on aksa bod.baraye man kheili aksaton tasirgozare, nemidonam chera ? vali hamishe fogholadeh ast.

wow, i didn't know the stars where moving that way in just 5 minutes.....
cool colors for those trees.

I'm a Torontonian living abroad for a year and I just wanted to tell you that I love your site. From time to time I get homesick and your wonderful picture bring me little taste of home.

Just took one of these myself and it will be posted in a few days. I ummmmed and aaaared about including the tops of trees and ended up having them in the shot like you have.

Interestingly there seems to have been similar ground light in your shot providing the canopy some view.

In anycase, cool effect and I like it.

greattt shot :)

Hi SAM!
Excellent shoot!
I read in a book how to take a Photo like this, but untill now i did´nt trust my self to do it
(don´t ask me why)

I´m glad you did it!

It is just beautiful!

Congrats!

Excellent photo, the presence of terrestrial objects (trees in this case) makes the picture come alive. I can't figure out how you kept the trees from being overexposed.

This is (as usual) great !!!
But apart from its artistic point of view,
you also proved that the earth is indeed
rotating!!!

Great shot. Very original.

Great shot! I just love the trails against the dark blue sky that the long exposure has produced.

Great shots. Posted before the summer about the 50mm 1.8 lens, which pulls great colour. I have yet to scan my photos, but I did a few 3-5 hr exposures around polaris, which are, mind the pun, just stellar! Cheers sam!

that's a whole lot of stars. did you manually light the trees? if not, where did the orange hue of light fom from?

if that is the Hays family on 31 Mile lake then i know them and have a cottage on the lake also...it is glorious and the stars have been spectacular for the past few weeks...last weekend i slept on our dock looking up at the stars, seeing the constellations and about 8 shooting stars...if there is a heaven then i was there

Stunning. Your site's inspired me to fork out all my spare cash on a camera :)

**** WOW! *****

My first thought was -- but we haven't had much RAIN in Toronto (region) lately.....

And then I scrolled to your comments!!

Sam, you amaze. And you make each day that much richer, because you see things and capture them to share with us in the rest of the world.

What more can I say, other than: Thank you. =])

It's an amazing shot. Looks like slivers of crystal rain. You're a great photographer.
=)

Excellent, it looks like the tree is trying to jump on for the ride.

Stunning, as usual! The stars almost look like rain! Gotta love the clear sky.

Beautiful. Did you pop the flash to highlight the trees or was the light from the cabin?

Excellent!

I visit your site every day. I appreciate and look forward to each new photo.

Thanks for sharing.

Matt

You must have been really far away from the city to capture that many stars. Great shot.

Sam! You need an equatorial mount for your camera so you can do some astrophotography! You have got a great camera to do it with. You know you could do it. In a few months Orion will be overhead in the early ours of the morning and that is one of the coolest objects to take a photo of. Well, I don't know where it'll be where you're at. I'm way south. But anyway, this shot is great. Take care Sam.

Awesome! I thought it was rain.

perfect shot - i've been visiting this site every day for the past couple of months and i admire your work.

I wonder what that intense streak near the center of the image is?

I like so much shot stars, like this. You get a great moment! Congrats!

time flies...

stellar capture!

very wonderful. starry night!

wooooow

What a nice photo Sam.
I live in québec!
I do not know that the stars was movin so fast!

I reciprocate everyones' views. Very good photo. Excellent vision.

aha! So you DO have a tripod!

this picture is just visually amazing! the stars are in the top diagonal, the trees in the lower diagonal. also the center of the radial path is pointing away from trees, which separates the trees from the stars even more. yet both diagonals are beautifully in harmony.

Great shot! What's the really bright star?

I kinda wish I could do a 5 min exposure with my camera. I'm surprised the trees aren't washed out with an apperature of F4.5 for 5 mins. I would have expected maybe F14 or something. I also didn't know the Rebel XT could do 5 min exposures.

Well, I can dream for now...Great Shot.

Another great photo and EDUCATIONAL too!

Some of your viewers now know that the stars appear to be moving only because of the Earth's rotation.

Beautiful! I love these type of shots!

amazing. colors are nice. you can see how does earth spins!

oh wow....
that's fantastic.

you've just become
one of my
favorite people.

this reminds me of van gogh's the starry night. beautiful shot.

Great concept Sam, really like this one!

Answer to a post earlier: You can take exposures as long as you like with a camera that has a "Bulb" setting. The internal timer doesn't go past 30 seconds, you simply use a stopwatch.

What a wonderfull photo!!! Very, very beautifull!!! As allways, of course!

I was just looking through blogs randomly bored and your blog was on someone elses' under Interesting Blogs. Wow your photos are amazing. The simplicity is incredible..yet you capture something as simple as a spilled chocolate milk container and it is .... different. Anyways what kind of a camera do you use? I have always had such an interest in photography..but I know nothing about it really. Your pictures are so clear, and I am trying to imagine what kind of camera you have...even though, it's not just the camera that captures the picture in just the right way, it is the photographer as well. You are an amazing photographer.

amazing photo

Just wanted to know if you rememebr what that bright star is, to me it looks like Jupiter as it is brighter than the stars, but I can't be sure. I am talking about the one on middle of the image, to the right of tree branches on the mid-top right. Awesome shot btw.

You will gain further inspiration for night photos by visiting http://rosshillier.my-expressions.com/
who is a 19 year old in Johanisburg SAfrica and he takes many night pictures that look like daylight using film and no manipulation with photoshop. His exposures are often only 5 to 7 minutes as well.

You've got a good start here.

Like it says if you stay over the photo... He's using a Canon 350D, which is the Canon Digital Rebel XT (8MP)

Lovely, lovely, lovely.

Aren't cottages wonderful?

I wish you were there tomorrow night for the Perseid meteorite shower, which happens every August around this time. The odd shooting star might have made your shot even MORE interesting, though it's stunning as it is!

Thanks, Sam!

"I'm a Torontonian living abroad for a year and I just wanted to tell you that I love your site. From time to time I get homesick and your wonderful picture bring me little taste of home."

I think this is more important than just producing nice pictures. well done you!

Hey it's fun to scroll it up and down

cool!

Absolutely beautiful. The star trails are amazine and the trees really add interest of the photo.

Beautiful image

Porra, meu, muito louco!

Wow very original :-)

Quite a coincidence, or was it inspired?
http://onereaction.net/PhotoBlog/2005/7/26/337.aspx

Wow -- such a feeling of motion and intensity. I'm sure my comment is not the most technically deep. I just like this a lot. Great composition as well!

Now that's fucking talent. Awesome picture.

Gostaria, imensamente, de receber fotografias desta em meu "post mail".