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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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Alpine Loyalty at Cherry Point USA on -2016-01-14-. A Transpetrol Vessel. She is taking fuel from the smaller ships- We call this refuelling as Bunkering .
Located in Switzerland at an altitude of 2100 meters, Lake Fallboden (Fallbodensee) is a man-made lake. It provides beautiful views of the Eiger and Mönch mountains. The chapel-like building on the shore is a memorial hall honoring the famous route of the first ascent of the Eiger.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Jungfrau Railway, the ‘Eiger Walk’ was established as an easy hiking route that follows the rail line from the Eiger Glacier via Lake Fallboden to Kleine Scheidegg. It is a popular route that leads through stunning alpine scenery and the tranquil lakeshore provides a nice resting place for tired feet.
Record shot of this magnificent bird seen on the North Face of Gibraltar. Spectacular and distinctive large, dark brown swift with white belly and throat patch. Noticeably larger than Common Swift and Blyth’s Swift, but with slower wingbeats and a "lazier" and wider soaring flight. Breeds colonially in cliff faces, mountains, and larger buildings. Migratory in parts of its range. Call is an extremely shrill, chittering scream. eBird
A two and a half hour drive from home, the drive up the hill on a road built for the B.C. Tel/Telus radio site gets you to beautiful views and a series alpine meadows up at Blackwall Peak in Manning Park.
Elevation 2063m / 6768ft.
Gazillions of wildflowers and grasses. As you circumnavigate the peak, you see the various phases of bloom. Areas of Southern exposure are quite advanced, areas of Northern exposure are a little behind. Just Magic! ☺
The American pika is the smallest member of the rabbit family, landing somewhere between a hamster and a Guinea pig in appearance and size. Unlike most rabbits and hares, their large ears are rounded, bringing to mind nothing so much as Mickey Mouse. Their obligate habitat is high mountain boulder fields at or above tree-line. This makes the region around the 10,947 foot summit of the Beartooth Highway (US 212) the ideal place to look for them. In one particular spot they enjoy the shelter and forage found among sparkly, colorful granite rocks. They eat grasses and other plants and also harvest them to tuck in their dens deep within the rocks to eat, hay-like, during the long, high alpine winters rather than hibernating like so many other animals do to survive the lean months.
When the photographer arrives and sets up, they retreat to crevasses among the boulders, then gradually venture into the open again. Once they conclude the photographer is no threat, they hop around among the rocks, posing momentarily between mouths-full of forage, sometimes coming so close the long telephoto can’t handle it. Their cuteness factor is very high, especially when they make their little squeaky-toy calls.
However, the most important thing to know about pikas is that they are climate change indicator species. As the landscape warms, they need to move to ever-higher, cooler elevations, and if the plants they live on don’t also move to higher ground, they cannot survive. While for the moment they seem to be thriving in the Wyoming-Montana highlands, in some parts of the U.S. they have already disappeared due to rising average temperatures.
Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Custer-Gallatin National Forest
Even though there is a little bit of blue sky, it was pretty dark (for afternoon), very dim light. The weather was coming from behind, super dark low clouds and it was just minutes before it started raining. That's one of those 'just do it' panoramas, but I took the chance despite the light cause it's not the old days anymore, this is besides a well-trodden path and so when the weather is nice, it's ..touristy by now. 😕 Would like to do this location with better conditions one day, the lake takes on all sorts of beautiful green tones (at least on the visible spectrum) due to the forest around.
Source for this is a 4 piece panorama, 12567 x 5520px, ~69,4MP, but cropped a little, to give the lake center stage.
There is some fringing going on against the sky (not a huge fan), which is in part due to the lens I think, but I'll spare you the rant.
It was also the time when I (finally) decided to jump on AdobeRGB as long as I'm lossless with the D3300, ran the D90 with an sRGB chain for IR.
Monochrome conversions turned out nice, did not offer anything distinct however, were just like regular b&w. Overall, field of view is about 180°. 👀
Nikon D3300 (APS-C / DX, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
heliopan SH-PMC deep yellow 4x (15, G) filter
ISO100, 13mm, f/8, 1/160sec
(therefore ~20mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
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
© Doug Santo
Tioga Lake just outside the eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. Mt. Dana to the right.
LA: Delphinium elatum
EN: Alpine delphinium
DE: Hoher Rittersporn
HU: Nyúlánk sarkantyúfű
This specimen is a planted flower in a show garden of endemic plants on the ÖBZ ground, in Munich.
The alpine delphinium is endemic to Southern and Central Europe and parts of Asia. Often in the mountains, at subalpine, alpine heights.
There are lots of cultivated versions of it. It is cultivated since the 16th century in the gardens of Europe.
I hope one day I will present a wild specimen.
Fall colors in bloom at 10,000 feet at sunrise near a stream in the Eastern Sierra, Little Lakes Valley, Inyo County, California, USA
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.
Driving down from col de Vars, above Guillestre, the setting sun was breaking through the clouds and shining on a few spots in the valley.
I had to post-process a bit the image to increase the contrast. I chose to make it a bit darker and to keep desaturated colors but to make part of the cloud higlights a bit more yellow and the distant mountains a bit more blue.
Technically, I used the darktable software. I made the top and bottom of the image darker with an exposure filter as well as tone curves. I used a set of contrast equalizers on the mountains and the patches of light to increase the contrast, using a combination of "clarity", "sharpen", and "sharpen and denoise" presets. On the top of the image I also used a contrast equalizer, but this time in "bloom" preset, to decrease the contrast, as well as a "soften" filter. For the colors, I give a slight yellow-green push to the image with a "color correction" filter, I desaturated the top of the image and I pushed the distant mountains and the top of the clouds to the blue. I applied a color correction selecting on pixel intensity to shift only the highlights of the left part of the clouds to the yellow. I used "color zones" to make the blue of the top of the part of the sky darker. And finally, I added some grain, making it more intense in the shadows, to compensate for the varying amount of smoothness created by the different contrast equalizers.
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
Coyote above the tree line, on Trail Ridge Road. Near the Alpine Visitors Center. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.