I'm not one for crowded spaces. I like to get away from the chaos, so my wife and I accompanied by our two dogs, Choco & Bella, hiked up the hill behind our house to get a different perspective of the Fourth of July festivities here in beautiful South Lake Tahoe, California. I used a tripod to stabilize the camera, set the mode to bulb, used a cable release to trigger the camera and just let it expose everything. Camera settings: f/5.6 @ 408 seconds, roughly 7 minutes, ISO 100. Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 15mm Fisheye.
Mount Tallac is the prominent mountain on the left, and to give perspective, Mt. Tallac sits at 9700' elevation. The moon was nearly full and accounts for the amount of available light. The treeline shadow on the bottom third of the photo was caused by the moonlight being blocked from the mountain we were on.
Hope you enjoy the view, we had it all to ourselves.
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