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Happy Earth Day!
Despite continued vigorous search, astronomers have yet to find another planet like Earth. All around us, we can easily see the unique beauty and qualities of our planet. Yet at the same time, we also witness its abuse through environmental mismanagement and unchecked pollution.
Among the five major types of pollution, I'm passionate about raising awareness of and fighting against light pollution. Here in the Southwest, we have some of the darkest night skies. However, many around the world have never seen the Milky Way. The disappearance of dark skies has impacts beyond stargazing including wildlife safety and energy conservation. Start today and do your part to help control light pollution and preserve our dark skies!
www.darksky.org/5-things-you-can-do-to-protect-the-night-...
For this shot, I chose a night where a 20% moon would be setting right before the Milky Way would be in perfect position over Zion Canyon. I shot the foreground with the moonlight and then shot the night sky shortly after the moon had set (all from the same tripod position). This was essential to be able to bring contrast and light into this dark canyon.
The night sky provides fascinating patterns and colours. The lighthouse at Grosnez, Jersey is situated in the foreground.
Almost perfect alignment and symmetry. There are about 25 of those up-squirts in the fountain.
Civic Center, Santa Clara, California.
Three of my favorite shots from the planetary alignment on February 20, 2015. Pigeon Point Lighthouse is in the foreground. The advancing fog bank caused the composition to change, with the planets and moon ducking in and out of sight. Finally, it swallowed them all.
Sony A7S, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm, f/2.8, 1 second, ISO12,800
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So for one week of the year, the sun, tides, and sometimes the weather, all come together to produce the perfect alignment for a particular shot... today was not that day! Mice and Men 0 - Tide 1
Car tail lights trails on a dirt road through the Alabama Hill, under a starry night sky.
Miles Morgan does it better: Both Miles and I photographed this dirt road, exposing the streaking tail lights of our cars. Miles took a narrower view from the hill to the right, just above the road —allowing him to shoot from a higher position and capture more of an "S" curve composition to the road. Instead of shooting in the middle of the night like I did, he shot in the pre-dawn hour and used the setting moon in the sky rather than stars. I think you'll agree that his "blue hour" shot tops my starry night view! After admiring his great photograph, be sure to scroll down and read the story behind the image. It's worth the time. Miles is just as good with a pen as he is with a camera.
Exploring the Alabama Hills: I just returned from a week-long scouting trip in the Alabama Hills of Eastern California, where I will be conducting a starry "NightScape" workshop in April 2014 (we will also be doing a lot of daytime photography).
My new ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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I took advantage of the New Moon and clear skies, and drove out to Coleyville (southwest of Brisbane) last night for some Milky Way photography. These are panoramas taken with my EOS R and Samyang 24mm f/1.4 lens.
One interesting thing about this period (autumn) is that the moon is no longer setting in the west like during the month of June, no, our satellite sets exactly halfway between south and west.
On 28.10.14 this halfway was pretty much mathematically perfect, the moon (phase 36%) was setting south-west shortly after dusk, allowing to observe its slow passage behind the north face of Monviso (3.842 m) exactly during the sunset time.
Here you can see the dorsal of the mountain slightly exposed to the west that takes fire at sunset. As happened during my first visit the previous week, again a crystal clear sky allowed the slanting rays of the setting sun to express themselves in full power, without blocks, deviations or attenuations, that the presence of clouds could generate.
Within a few hours the moon will fall behind the horizon, right between Punta Roma and Punta Udine, allowing the night to get really dark.
This photo, observed at the original high-resolution, allows to see clearly both the crosses on the summit of Monviso and on its secondary peak: the Viso di Vallanta (it's the most geometrically marked part of the ridge, right under the moon) for its form also known as Dado di Viso... in italian "dado" means nut/dice.
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I usually try to line up the moon and Wisconsin's capitol from across Lake Mendota or Monona but a few weeks ago I decided to change it up a bit. I walked to the top of a parking garage near State St and hoped that my calculations for alignment would pan out. They did and I couldn't be happier. The hardest part was finding a proper exposure to balance out the light of the rapidly brightening moon and the dome of the capitol. I've found that the best time to shoot is just after sunset when there is still an ambient glow from the setting sun, helping to balance the two subjects.
The crews of Conrail ME-2 and an NJ Transit local exchange waves as their trains meet in New Brunswick. ME-2 is on the Delco Lead spotting cars at Cal-Chlor while the Trenton-bound commuter train is on the Northeast Corridor. An alternate title for this photo is "The Lean". Both the cab car and the GP40-2 are leaning to the right. Curves on the Northeast Corridor are, of course, superelevated. I'd wager the Delco Lead is not...it's probably just a bit out of alignment here.
Conrail ME-2:
CSXT 6150 GP40-2
Last night was amazingly clear showing the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn in alignment high up in the night sky. This is a montage of 2 photos - one of the moon which was very bright and the 2 planets in the correct positions as seen last night.
“The name "London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark in central London since Roman times. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It replaced a 19th-century stone-arched bridge, which in turn superseded a 600-year-old stone-built medieval structure. In addition to the roadway, for much of its history, the broad medieval bridge supported an extensive built up area of homes and businesses, part of the City's Bridge ward, and its southern end in Southwark was guarded by a large stone City gateway. The medieval bridge was preceded by a succession of timber bridges, the first of which was built by the Roman founders of London (Londinium) around AD 50.
The current bridge stands at the western end of the Pool of London and is positioned 30 metres upstream from previous alignments. The approaches to the medieval bridge were marked by the church of St Magnus-the-Martyr on the northern bank and by Southwark Cathedral on the southern shore. Until Putney Bridge opened in 1729, London Bridge was the only road crossing of the Thames downstream of Kingston upon Thames. London Bridge has been depicted in its several forms, in art, literature, and songs, including the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down", and the epic poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot.
The modern bridge is owned and maintained by Bridge House Estates, an independent charity of medieval origin overseen by the City of London Corporation. It carries the A3 road, which is maintained by the Greater London Authority. The crossing also delineates an area along the southern bank of the River Thames, between London Bridge and Tower Bridge, that has been designated as a business improvement district.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge#New_London_Bridge_(1831%E2%80%931967)
I was up at 4:30 a.m. but did not really go out to the backyard until well after 5:00 (it was 56'ish degrees and windy!). And although I saw that it was overcast, I set up the camera on a tripod anyway, hoping that the sky might clear up before the sunrise "erases" any visible trace of the alignment of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury. But it was not to be. Oh, well...there's still tomorrow.
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An incredible display of light as the sun rises beyond Bryce Canyon's "Silent City" during monsoon season.
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This one has grown on me since uploading the other version. Camera rotation long exposure light art.
I stumbled upon this scene back in autumn. Feels like weeks but it's been months now. But looking at the photo brings back all of the emotion I felt in the moment. The brightness of the sky was dampened by thick cloud cover. But a break in the overcast allowed the sun to peek out momentarily. The suns; brilliance seemed channeled into a narrow beam that was largely blocked by the canopy of autumn leaves that were layered above me. I found that standing in this exact spot allowed the sun to reach my upturned face. The backlighting on the maple leaves was pure magic. But the illusion vanished with just a couple of steps in any direction. This moment was all about place and time, and the sheer happenstance (or subconscious guidance) of finding myself here to observe it.
I got to thinking about this image earlier today when reading about the conjunction of planets Pluto and Mars that comes to a peak today (February 14). It's an astronomical event, but one with astrological implications. The alignment creates a sort of flashpoint for potentially dramatic events here on earth. Much like the way the sunlight impacted me way down on the forest floor, four months ago, it's all about alignment and perspective.
I was unable to get out to shoot the moon last night, so here is a shot I took back on March 15th of this year.
This is a 3 shot panorama in the portrait position taken with a 600mm lens.
Well I'm off, and starting my drive up to Mount Rainier today. I'll be back in a week.
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Ahhh! Time to give #346 a ride on the new turntable at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. I imagine the stumble bums (or road apples) will summon forth the effort to push the turntable into a new alignment. Labor would have been thin in the old days.
The old burned out D&RG diesel is parked on the left. I spot the rebuilt C&N and the D&RGW boxes. I guess the C&N is probably older. The Colorado & Northwestern took over after a flood took out the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific trackage in Four Mile Canyon above Boulder, Colorado in the spring of 1893, see comments. The D&RGW stands for Dangerous & Rapidly Growing Worse, of course.
As it worked, the staff said Sunday would be more sane, I say barely any more. Everyone at the place got three loops. Only those with sharp elbows got the cupola in the caboose or a ride in the cab. They also do railroad modeling over here but they prefer modeling at a 12 inches to the foot scale. Area and other fans ought to make the trek; take your camera, empty and ready to go! The CRRM log is a Who's Who of worldly travelers. Rides for the kiddies of all ages started at 10:00 AM. Eddie the slug and I were chatting up a storm with some of the unhired help by the roundhouse. I spent time calling out all the hardware to fast Eddie and describing their utility. Knowledge that is too soon lost.
CRRM has done enormous work since last I spent time down there and the library was new. A recent roundhouse and turntable have been built as well as a complete narrow gauge loop for the all too popular steamups. Everything seems new.
A high exaggeration of a simple astro comp I shot near Windy, NSW two years ago. I found time to tinker it around and finally post it, especially when the milky way is not so shy these days.
A seagull sitting on a flagpole in front of the sun setting over Saint-Quay-Portrieux.
Tried different exposures but went with this silhouette version in the end.
The Female Red-tailed Hawk adjusts not only herself, but her tail feathers as well, guess they were out of alignment.
Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy.
This image is from my Tuscany series. Please view my other Tuscany images in my Tuscany set.
The Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta is located in the hills of the Val d'Orcia on the road between San Quirico d'Orcia and Pienza in Tuscany, Italy, and is one of the most beautiful and evocative places in this incredible territory, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The small chapel, framed by two rows of cypress trees was built in the spot where legend says the Virgin Mary appeared to a shepherdess. In 1533, a statue of the Virgin Mary by Andrea della Robbia was installed in the church, today conserved in the Church of Madonna di Vitaleta in San Quirico.
This shot was planned using PhotoPills. While I had plenty of time for setup I really squandered the opportunity by not exposing for the sun (as much as that is possible). Live and learn. Still, I want to post this image to share what is possible using PhotoPills.
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