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A rural roadside scene that took my attention somewhere along our drive through the back country of the Pohangina Valley yesterday.
© Dominic Scott 2024
[This is a pano version of a single frame capture posted last year.]
Yosemite's Half Dome peeks through a veil of mist during evening golden hour.
This trip was full of unexpected surprises. For one, the weather forecast said it would snow at night and be clear all day, perfect for shooting fresh snow. Well, that snowstorm hung around all day and blotted out all the iconic sights. It was getting a little depressing when all of a sudden, hints of blue showed up in the sky directly above. On that, we made for Cook's Meadow for the third time, hoping to catch a glimpse of "the bald one". About as soon as I was setup at the stream and ready to shoot, Half Dome appeared as if on cue the give the crowd a very brief but welcome show. Nobody fell in, but most of us experienced an unwelcomed "shoe dunk" when stepping on a void in the snow. Dry feet were not an option.
This is a pano using the DFA90Macro lens on the 645Z.
Monument Valley, Arizona
Camera: Pentax 645z (Medium format digital)
Lens: HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
Monument Valley, Arizona
Camera: Pentax 645z (Medium format digital)
Lens: HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
From the gorgeous east bay hills above Walnut Creek, I met up with Laura and Lee Ann to observe comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS. Laura had scouted a grand distant oak tree for a telephoto compression shot.
After dark, the comet appeared above the tree and descended generally along this route, but slightly left. Well, in all the confusion to grab my dark frames, flats and bias shots, I forgot to re-shoot the moonlit tree when it was looking its best.
So, this is a composite of the comet against the scene 1 hour earlier. Both were captured from the same position with the same focal length, 600mm using the A* 600/5.6 on the 645Z.
Those people under the tree were a surprise when I raised the shadows.
Thanks for looking!
Monument Valley, Arizona-Utah
Camera: Pentax 645z (medium format digital)
Lens: HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
Kicking off "Milky Way season" 2020 with Miguel at Tioga Lake, CA. This is from early Monday morning.
That golden glow on the right horizon is light pollution from Fresno, 90 miles southwest. Far left is rising Venus. EXIF shows 9,684 ft elevation at this spot.
Lens is the DFA 25mm f/4 on the 645Z. This is a stacked median blend with composite exposure for the foreground, manually blended. I used 15, 8-sec star exposures at ISO 10,000 and a foreground exposure of 4 minutes, and fed them into Sequator for processing. The exposure is cranked because the only light on the mountain is coming from the stars. There is more than my usual amount of "movie magic" applied to this image, just sayin'.
Thanks Miguel for the outing! My son Parker also made his first photo trip with dad, so that was exciting. We spent much more time driving(social distancing in separate vehicles no less) than actually shooting, but it was well worth it! Though Dad loved it, Parker reports he will think twice before agreeing to any future journeys of this nature.
Hope you like this one!
Toby Earth II - Pentax 645z
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Death Valley National Park, California
Camera: Pentax 645z (medium format digital),
Lens: HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
If you look at my photo and think Teletubbies, you might be a Millennial. If you see it and think Windows XP, you're a GenX-er.
Claritin? OK Boomer.
Passing this green hill today with kids in tow, I suddenly remembered the Windows XP wallpaper, "Bliss", and ran home to grab a camera.
To emulate the original picture, I absolutely cranked the vibrance nearly as far as it would go, so this oversaturated image offers no resemblance of reality...but hey, to relive 2001, if for just a moment.
Lens is the DFA 55mm f/1.8 on the 645Z.
Monument Valley, Arizona
Camera: Pentax 645z (Medium format digital)
Lens: HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
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A bit of a gift for our first location on the second day of the recent Italian trip. Sunrise inside the Oculus Tower was quite simply about as good as it gets light wise.
Shot with the amazing Pentax 645Z and Brian 3 Legged Thing tripod.
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2009 was the last and only time that I have visited the small town of Burdick, Kansas. Population around 60. It was sad to see that the old wooden elevator was gone. The old high school was in much worse shape than the last time I saw it. The old truck parked in front in 2009 was located about 15 feet to right of where it is now. This is a six image panorama made with a Pentax 645Z.
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And if you prefer your arch without the flashlight wielding intruder, here you go.
Lens is the D FA35mm f/3.5 on the 645Z.
Shot with a Pentax 645z Camera + Pentax 90mm f/2.8 D FA 645 Lens. For wedding photography go to my other flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/nicksparksweddings
This image was captured on a quiet day some 4 years ago. I would imagine today that Mount Rainier National Park's Paradise area will be totally overrun this July 4th weekend in 2021. While I miss this park, I'm glad I'm not going to be there at this time. Hopefully, provided nothing unforeseen (like the other eye going out on me) occurs prior to my Mount Rainier trip, I'll get to see and photograph its beauty in a couple of weeks' time. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed.
At the time of this photograph, I had a Pentax 645z medium format camera. Also, at the time, I wasn't certain I much cared for the aspect ratio of a medium format, but I did like the way this image turned out. It was a beautiful summer morning and the light and wisps of mist paralleling the Tatoosh Range added to an already beautiful scene.
Copyright Rebecca L. Latson, all rights reserved.
Camera: Pentax 645z (Medium format digital)
Lens: HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5ED AW SR
Cholla (Cylindropuntia fulgida)
After a long midday drive from the bay area and waiting for moonrise at Mono Lake, Rob Y and I hurried to Hot Creek near Mammoth to grab a shot. We arrived around 1 am but the moon would not be directly overhead until 3:45-ish so we set the alarm to sneak in some much needed rest. Sleeping in the car when it is 23 deg F is not the most fun ever, but I guess it is slightly better than sleeping OUTSIDE.
The alarm dinged and we sprung awake and out the door to take our picture. By this time, morning twilight had begun and some overhead clouds were reflecting orange in the meandering creek.
We finished and raced down to Bishop for our next adventure...offroading through dry creek beds in the Chidago Canyon petroglyph area...in 100 degree heat!
Hot Creek flows down from Mammoth Lakes and becomes geothermally heated as it mixes with another source. These steam effusions are the result of the ambient temp being below freezing in this case(23 F) and the flowing creek water being much warmer or even hot. There are periodic geysers as well that shoot 6ft straight up. People are no longer permitted to swim here as there have been 14 deaths in recent years.
This is a vertical pano with the DFA 90mm 2.8 Macro lens on the 645Z. This is mostly straight from camera as it required little additional processing work.
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