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[I'm re-visiting this milky way shot from 2018, running the star frames through Sequator this time, instead of manually stacking and fitting as was my pre-2020 process.]
Original Entry: From early this morning, hanging out with Clint at Lake Alpine, CA. We drove back and forth between various lakes so many times, I lost count. Finally ended up here just in time for the milky way to stand upright over the lake. Big old ants, and a few mosquitoes, but it definitely wasn't cold.
Part of the experience for me is to spend time contemplating how we all fit in to this vast universe. Seeing the center of our own galaxy like this is evocative and inspirational.
Lens is the DFA 55mm f/2.8 on the 645Z. I adhered to the "500 rule" and stacked about 17 frames (10s at ISO 5000) for some noise reduction. Foreground was 187s at ISO 2000.
Sky is classified Bortle-2.
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There is no better nickname for the Eastern Sierras than the Range of Light. Seriously. I challenge you. 20 bucks.
North Lake, CA
Alpine Texas has only 5000 residents but it's a great place to visit and a damn good view coming into town. From this point it's about 4 miles to get to the town
The Alpine chough, or yellow-billed chough, is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax. Its two subspecies breed in high mountains from Spain eastwards through southern Europe and North Africa to Central Asia and Nepal, and it may nest at a higher altitude than any other bird. The eggs have adaptations to the thin atmosphere that improve oxygen take-up and reduce water loss.
This bird has glossy black plumage, a yellow beak, red legs, and distinctive calls. It has a buoyant acrobatic flight with widely spread flight feathers. The Alpine chough pairs for life and displays fidelity to its breeding site, which is usually a cave or crevice in a cliff face. It builds a lined stick nest and lays three to five brown-blotched whitish eggs. It feeds, usually in flocks, on short grazed grassland, taking mainly invertebrate prey in summer and fruit in winter; it will readily approach tourist sites to find supplementary food.
An awesome reflection from my recent visit to Italy :)
I absolutely love those rough mountains combined with beautiful nature.
Fall colors in bloom at 10,000 feet at sunrise near a stream in the Eastern Sierra, Little Lakes Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
The beauty of this world is available to all those who wish to seek it. A simple concept, symbolized here by my partner who admires a waterfall in the French Alps.
The lust for power (so popular in this period) here counts nothing, rather it is just necessary to have an authentic and motivated soul, and spirit of sacrifice in earning the right spot.
Earth will survive us, all we can do is admire its beauty during our rapid passage. Every minute is precious, let's not waste it.
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Not prize- winning, but I was chuffed to get these images of a pair of Alpine Swifts over Scarborough today.
Pulsatilla Halleri, also known as alpine pasque flower. Here flowering in the Arctic Alpine Botanic Garden in Tromsø, Norway.
I spent this past week just outside of Mackenzie, BC. On Tuesday I went up above the treeline at the top of Morfee Mountain to look for ptarmigan and was very surprised to find this Baird's Sandpiper right at the summit of the mountain just relaxing in the sun...
An Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris) in afternoon light in Chhukhung, Solukhumbu, Nepal. #onlyinnepal
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Everest trek blog post: www.ianhearn.com/post/everest-region-2
Our Everest trek (video): youtu.be/rM0Or_7HswQ
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Tioga Lake just outside the eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. Mt. Dana to the right.
Skies are getting bluer than a mountain lake now. You just can't hope for more! This signpost is located at the 3fork on Yarisawa Valley, one directing you to Tenguhara (aka Glacier Park) and another to Mt Yari, (whose gorgeous shape is often compared to Matterhorn on the tongues of avid alps fans). There's no alternative to not making left here to Tenguhara. Yes, it has still been on my bucket list, Last time I came around, due to terrible weather, I couldn't make it to Tenguhara, neither was I able to make my way to Mt Minami. Both are a must-go place for a guy like myself.
Coyote above the tree line, on Trail Ridge Road. Near the Alpine Visitors Center. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
An Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris) poses on a lichen-covered rock in Solukhumbu, Nepal.
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LA: Pinguicula alpina
EN: Alpine butterwort
DE: Alpen-Fettkraut
HU: Havasi hízóka
A perennial carnivorous little plant.
Eurasian arctic-alpine areas are its home on the northern hemisphere.
The leaves are arranged in a rosette. Their surface is sticky and full of glands that produce digestive enzymes. Little insects landing on their leaves become trapped in the sticky mucous ground and the leaf edges roll toward the center, to bring more glands in contact with the victim.
Bon appétit!
It takes several years before one plant blooms.
In Germany strongly protected.
LA: Rhinanthus alpinus ssp. alpinus
(syn: Rhinanthus pulcher, Rhinanthus riphaeus)
EN: Alpine yellow rattle
DE: Alpen Klappertopf
HU: Alpesi / Havasi kakascímer
A semiparasite plant, as all Rhinanthus species.
Endemic only to Europe's mountains, on mountain meadows.
Walmendinger Horn, Kleinwalsertal, Austria.
I can't think of a better place to be right now than up at 12,500' in a remote alpine environment of the beautiful San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado.
It is refreshingly lush everywhere we travel this summer. The weather is a bit tricky this year as the rains are frequent so it is easy to get stuck out there in a lightning storm as I did just before this shot. In a matter of 15 minutes I saw a torrential downpour to a full rainbow that only lasted 20 seconds to dark clouds again.
I just can't get enough of this and find myself thinking about it day and night. Nature is really reaching out to us this summer and I plan on taking full advantage of it!
I posted a few other pictures to my website from our trip,
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This is one of the plants growing in one of our many pots and containers outside in e garden. There is a very large bunch of these in a large container, and for the fiirst time in years, one of them flowered. This can be seen in a recent upload with the bee.
A mixed train of ABe 4/4 III's and three loaded log wagons negotiate the S curves below Lago Bianco as it continues its climb towards the summit of the RhB at Ospizio Bernina. The logs are bound for the small lumber yard in Tirano, Italy.
Rhaetian Railway, Bernina Line
RhB ABe 4/4 III #53
Bernina Lagalb, Pontresina, CH