This year my focus was to challenge myself in less than ideal shooting situations. Typically when a photographer wants to take a night image, their camera is on a tripod, and they are shooting long exposures. This allows the photographer to keep their settings more favorable for low light shooting. So taking a high altitude flight 7,000 above the city at night in a moving, vibrating, wind swept helicopter falls right in line with a challenge. Balancing the extreme darkness and incredibly bright light was something that I had to learn while on the job. We were also working with less technology as we have today. Producing clean, sharp images with not a lot of digital noise was the feat on this flight. One that I'm quite proud of to this day.