Venus (bright at top) and Mercury (faint and low in the twilight) with both planets about as high as they will get this spring at my latitude of 51° N in Alberta. Mercury’s date of greatest elongation is May 6.
I shot this May 2, 2015 from the bridge over the Red Deer River near Dorothy, Alberta. Light from the nearly Full Moon rising in the east behind me provides some of the landscape illumination.
This is a high dynamic range stack of 5 exposures at 1-stop intervals, using the Canon 6D and 35mm lens.
The Amazing Sky 