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.

I captured this image in June during a very hot weekend in Joshua Tree National Park. It was my first attempt at taking an image during blue hour and blending with an image of the Milky Way taken a few hours later. I like the result but it was a lot of work in PS to figure out the blending, and I still have much to learn. It was another spectacular night under the stars!

This is the Mongla Stupa in the Khumbu Region of Nepal. This is my 2019 favorite because I took it while my husband and I were on a 15 day trek from Lukla to Gokyo. The trip included summiting Gokyo Ri (17575 ft) at sunrise to view Mt Everest. We had hoped for many nights of astrophotography but this was the only clear night. We were lucky enough to be staying in the tea house right above this stupa. It was a magical trip that I will never forget.