This photograph was my first semi-successful experiment with my recently purchased fisheye lens. I’ve decided that fisheye-lens pictures are an acquired taste that I have not quite yet developed. Nonetheless, no other lens could have captured so much of the entire night sky in a single frame. The brightest object to the right of the base of the Milky Way is Jupiter. On the other side is Saturn, just above the handle on the “Teapot” asterism in Sagittarius. After spreading its garland through the Summer Triangle, the Milky Way peters out in a barely recognizable, fisheye perspective of Cassiopeia. (Maybe I need to think like a fish to fully appreciate such photos?) The picture was taken from Long Beach on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. With only minor, visible light pollution from Ucluelet and Tofino on the lower-left and lower-right horizons respectively, it was the best opportunity I have had to date to take such a photograph – motivation for me to venture well beyond the light-polluted skies of Metro Vancouver. I was also pleased by the performance of my relatively inexpensive, manual Rokinon fisheye lens – though not with my failure to check the aperture which I believe was likely in the 18-22 range – not exactly optimal for nightscape photography. Capture details: Canon 5D camera on a fixed mount, 8 mm Rokinon fisheye lens, aperture not recorded, exposure time 20 sec, ISO 3200.