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Struggled a little bit doing these. I didn't think ahead to realise the flash duration of my Elinchrom lights would be too slow for the motion of the water, so I had to switch over to my Nikon SB-25's instead.

The setup in the end was reasonably simple, one light mostly for the background and one to create highlights in the water. Both speedlights were set to 1/16th of a second and were triggered by a set of Cactus V4's.

61 images stacked, 20 seconds per image (1830 sec total).

I took a short drive out to Bells Rapids for my first 52 photo of the year. I had planned on doing some star trails, so I headed up a road that I hadn't been down before and found myself climbing high into the hills of Perth.

All of a sudden my rear-view mirror was filled with a perfectly clear image of the city and I knew I was on the right track. It took me a while to find a suitable spot to pull over and set up my camera, this was made especially hard by the total darkness!

After shooting some landscapes of the city I set my camera up on the tripod and fired off some test shots to figure out my framing. I was hoping to get the southern celestial pole in the image, but it looks like I just missed!

I'm pretty happy with how the images turned out, even though I had two cars drive through my shot!

12 Minutes over 3 stacked exposures.