NavList:

Silly me.  Being from the southern hemisphere originally, the mention of a bright star/double star and a nearby weak star immediately got me thinking of Rigel Kentaurus, but the sky around there is full of navigation stars, so Frank's comment of only two navigation stars in frame threw me.

And of course I could not see in the picture what I expected to see.  So I see that David's analysis makes sense.

As for latitude, we don't have a great horizon in the picture because the trees.  Given Frank's non-astronomical assumption that the photograph is intended to depict an individual within the U.S., and given the orientation of the sky, I don't think this can be below the 49th parallel.  I live bewteen 47 and 48N and I don't get quite the same height in the sky for Vega with that orientation.  It would not be materially different at the northen edge of Maine.  So I need to go north, into Eastern Alaska or maybe as far north as Anchorage, about 61N. and about 132W.  If I pretend that the light to the right is light polution from a city that might work.  Otherwise I need to be before dawn maybe sometime in October.  Putting that into Stellarium, I can just about get there in mid-October before 5am (local) with Vega to the north.