this shot was taken around 3am in the diyala province of iraq. i used my canon rebel xti w/ its 18-55 mm canon lens and a wide angle screw on attachement, the camera was mounted on a 7inch flexible tripod and i used a shutter release cable to expose the fil for 48sec @ f/3.5 iso 800 post processing included brightness and contrast changes through adobe photoshop elements 6.0.