This is my favorite image of 2023 because it is the best meteor shower image that I have ever taken. Lake Irene in Rocky Mountain National Park provided an ideal foreground for the Perseid Meteors on August 12-13, 2023. This image is a composite of 48 exposures taken over a four hour period.

I chose this image as it's my first (what I consider) successful tracked deep sky image. It is a composite image; the sky was taken prior to moonrise, while the foreground was taken after the moon rose close to midnight. It's in the Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley, CA - one of my happy places.

This image was taken in late summer at Yellowstone National Park. It was really dark that night with the Milky Way vertical and bright in the sky, with Jupiter just above the horizon. When I processed the image, I was delighted to find that it captured geyser activity in the foreground. The vast night sky, the lake with reflections and the geysers made it my best of 2019.