Shutterbug Photo of the Day

Today’s Shutterbug Photo of the Day is a stellar night sky shot by Yvonne Bauer. Bauer is now in the running to win a $1,000 Canon Pixma Pro-1 photo printer or a $500 Gift Certificate from LensRentals.com in our April Photo of the Month contest. Details on how to enter here.

“I thought my summer of camping and backpacking was over when I tore my meniscus in my right knee,” Bauer writes of this image. “But at one point I became pretty antsy and wanted to get out, so I decided to do a bit of car camping in Southern Utah. I camped near Panguitch Lake and set up my camera at my campsite to capture the Milky Way before the moon would rise. I only had a pretty narrow window of an hour and a half, but was able to capture this shot. I also lit the foreground with my headlamp.

The image is a 30-exposure that Bauer captured with a Nikon D7000 and Tokina 11-16mm lens at 11mm. She mounted the camera on a Feisol tripod and here settings were F/2.8 and  ISO 2000.

See a larger version of the photo in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day gallery here.

If you want to enter Shutterbug Photo of the Day, post an image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day Gallery and include your real name and some background on the image (how and where it was shot; the story behind the image; gear and settings used etc.) in the description field to qualify.

We will select one Shutterbug Photo of the Day image every month to run as a full-page feature in the magazine.