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Encouraged by the promising conditions and lacking the long lens I needed at this distance (this image is cropped), I decided to extend my walk to Great Links Tor, which you can see here on the far ridge line. You get a feeling for these things though, and mine were telling me it was going to rain. A lot. Enough so that this is the only shot I have. I might have liked to crop in even tighter. But having already ditched half of the original full resolution file, I settled on this composition. Ideally, of course, I would have shot it with a tele-zoom. But then I would have had to carry it (and buy one). It's something I'm thinking about.
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We don’t always get the conditions we wish for regardless of planning. Not getting out of late I was desperate for an outing. With a keen eye on the weather for several days I could see we were going to get a change with subzero temperatures forecasted. Where I planned to visit was expecting snow/sleet the day before, so on Wednesday morning scraping the ice from the windscreen inside and out my hopes were high, 45 miles later I knew it was another better luck next time. It was very cold (-7) but surprisingly little frost, so I set out with for the walk more than the photography. I usually see no one when I go to this forest but today I met the Forestry England Wildlife Range on a roe deer management mission. We had a lovely chat and a play with his thermal monocular using his bonny border terrier as a wildlife substitute, for any wildlife photographer it would be a suburb bit of kit. He’d already culled a deer which he warned was still lying along the track waiting for collection. Luckily my route was soon going to take me into the tree’s so I would avoid the poor deer. I’m anti-hunting and dislike sport hunting but this chap was a professional and it was a job not sport. I understand the issues with deer with no natural predators, so I’m pro rewilding and this chap was of the same mind. We had an interesting chat about the reintroduction of Lynx and could of talked all morning but I said my goodbyes and had a great day discovering to new oaks and a smashing walk in the hills. This photo from Dec 2022 is the sort of conditions I was hoping for, I still haven’t decided if any photos I took today will see the light.
The conditions have really closed in on us now, with cold winds blowing rain at us at over 40mph (65kph), but still, one has to get a selfie at the summit, and here I am at the first one of the day, Mayar, with the our 2nd in the distant gloom, Driesh.
After a trip back up to Aberdeen for meetings at the office, I stayed a little longer to climb Mayar and Driesh. Mayar stands at 928 meters (3044 feet) and is my 29th Munro, and gives me the 10% of Munro's bagged I have always wanted. Driesh, at 947 meters (3106 feet), is my 30th Munro and the 2nd of the two I climbed this day.
With February's snow and subzero temperatures now a fading memory, milder conditions across the UK over the past week brought that rare and wonderful combination of low wind speeds and slack tides. I was out at blue hour on several mornings to capture the scene near the Queen's Walk, where the flow of the Thames came to a standstill and created near-perfect reflections of the HMS Belfast, the riverside promenade and Tower Bridge in the distance.
This image was a combination of nine bracketed exposures, blended with luminosity masks in Photoshop and with Nik plugins to adjust the contrast and detail. The main challenge when shooting was whether to trade clarity in the water for clarity in the highlights, because extending the shutter speed and ensuring a smoother reflection also increased the size of the starbursts inside the riverside lamps, which had the potential to become a distraction. By increasing the ISO and narrowing the aperture I struck a reasonable balance, and I was then able to apply my darker exposures to the highlights to restore detail in the lamps. After this, I targeted my brighter exposures to the midtones and applied a radial gradient mask to the underside of the Belfast in order to bring out some of its metallic detail, as well as to emphasise the boat's prominence so that viewers' eyes would hopefully be guided to this part of the image first.
The colour-grading phase was a mixture of Colour Balance, Selective Colour and Gradient Map adjustments to create a colder finish and to convey the blue-hour ambience. Setting Nik's Silver Efex Pro to Luminosity and increasing the Soft Contrast and Amplify Whites sliders, I made the light inside the bridge and along the boat's upper deck slightly more dynamic. Finally, inside Colour Efex Pro, I used a sparing amount of the Glamour Glow filter in order to soften the shadows.
This last adjustment was important to me as I felt that a sense of dreaminess, particularly in the reflection, was key to conveying the sense of peace and tranquillity along the Thames that morning. Despite the imposing presence of a World War II-era cruiser in the foreground, the peaceful mood along the river at the quietest time of day was made all the more impactful by the calm conditions, creating a scene that doesn't come along all that often.
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Start Point, South Devon. Conditions were not up to much, so I had a play to see what I could do. 10 Stop Kase Wolverine filter used.
After dodging clouds for well over a month and despite some bad seeing conditions we were finally able to image Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF on 1/22/2023 this past weekend from Grand Mesa Observatory.
The Comet is heading towards its closest approach to Earth on February 1st, 2023 and should increase in brightness up to this point. It is currently faintly visible to the naked eye from a dark non-light polluted location. The Moon does complicate things a bit and will be bright in the sky and up most of the night in the coming days until it's at it reaches full Moon on Feb 6th. After the 6th the Moon will rise later in the evening giving the opportunity to see the Comet clearer the second week of February in the early evening hours. It will also be located high up in the night sky close to zenith which will also make it easier to observe and photograph.
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF will head past some interesting celestial objects in the night sky making a close pass by the bright star Capella on Feb 6; then moves through the Constellation Auriga Feb 7-9th; it also makes a close approach to Mars on Feb 10th where it will be a bit over 1 degree or about two full moon widths away from Mars in the night sky. Some very interesting photo and observing opportunities to look forward to, I hope at Grand Mesa Observatory and everyone else will have clear skies for some of them!
The appearance of this comet is interesting as well with its tails splayed out in opposite directions caused by its orientation in the solar system relative to our vantage point here on Earth. A very good explanation for this comes from Ian Whittaker a senior physics lecturer in physics at Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. who had this to say in a Newsweek article recently released:
"The neutral particles come off in a cone behind the comet as it moves—a bit like being behind a big truck on the motorway while it's raining, all the excess water hits whatever is directly behind it."
"The charged particles will do the same unless there are any electric or magnetic fields nearby. The sun itself has a magnetic dipole (like the Earth) and has a magnetic field flowing out into the solar system. So the charged particles coming off of the comet are picked up by this magnetic field and sent directly away from the sun (anti-sunward)."
This forms the traditional backward-facing tail streaming out from behind a comet.
"The third comet tail is made up of the neutral particles but is not actually traveling towards the sun, it is just the relative position of the comet, Earth, and sun," Whittaker said.
He continued: "If we go back to the analogy of the truck traveling on a lot of surface water, the spray comes out and mostly goes behind, but in a slight cone shape. If we were now in front and looked backward, we would not see the main spray hitting the car behind but a slight amount either side of the truck where the edge of the cone is. The apparent third comet tail is the same thing, we are seeing neutral particles flowing away from the comet in a cone and from where we are on the Earth we just see both edges of this cone so it looks like two tails when it is really one."
Credit Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/comet-ztf-green-tail-antitail-towards-su...
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2022_E3_(ZTF)
Technical Info:
Captured by Terry Hancock, and Kim Quick at Grand Mesa Observatory, Processed by Tom Masterson
Capture date 1/22/2023
Integration
5 x 180 sec images stacked. Total time 15 Minutes.
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Grand Mesa Observatory System 5
Camera: QHY 128 Pro C One Shot Color
Optics: Borg 107ED
Image Acquisition software N.I.N.A
Pre-Processed in Deep Sky Stacker, PixInsight
Post Processed in Photoshop, Pixinsight, StarXTerminator (for PShotoshop).
View from Brandreth. Part of Base Brown bottom right corner, ridges of Thorneythwaite Fell (Glaramara) and Rosthwaite Fell in middle distance and Low Saddle to Ullscarf beyond. Great conditions after rain cleared through.
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During our drive from Anchorage to Fairbanks, we experienced cloudy conditions with poor visibility until we were about an hour away from Denali National Park. When we were nearing the summit lake, the clouds dispersed, and sunlight appeared, revealing the distant mountain peaks. We spotted a pullout and decided to take a break to soak in the sunshine. It felt as if we were the only people for miles around, and the scenery was breathtaking. The road's slight curve created a perfect leading line toward the mountains, prompting me to capture a panorama image.
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I don't recall when exactly I began to take an interest in the bridges of Yosemite Valley. Still, I have always felt that they would make excellent subjects to capture through photography, provided the lighting conditions were just right. Usually, when my family and I visit Yosemite, we focus on the more popular viewpoints, such as Valley View and Artist's Point. However, on our most recent trip, I had some free time during mid-day, which I spent photographing some of the gorgeous bridges within the park.
Fortunately, the low water levels of the Merced River meant that I had a lot of luck with it acting as a reflection pool in many locations. One spot where the reflections worked exceptionally well with the fall colors was the Pohono Bridge. My main challenge was timing my shots to avoid getting cars in the frame, as this is a busy part of the loop road. In terms of composition, my main goal was to minimize the amount of sky in the shots since the timing meant that the sky would be overexposed mainly due to the wide dynamic range of the scene.
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Météo dantesque en ce 19/01/2021 au sommet du Hohneck (Alt : 1363m), aucune visibilité cause brouillard, vent violent soufflant à 100km/h, par une température de -10°, neige abondante, l'hôtel du Hohneck véritablement transformé en hôtel fantôme . (petite dédicace au film "Shining" de Stanley Kubrick).
The weather on 19/01/2021 at the top of the Hohneck (Alt: 1363m), no visibility causes fog, strong wind blowing at 100km/h, at a temperature of -10°, abundant snow, the Hohneck hotel truly turned into a ghost hotel. (small dedication to the film "Shining" by Stanley Kubrick).
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Perfect conditions to see the starling roost at Ham Wall this evening - one of the best views I've had. It is so hard to convey the experience in photographs.
If you look closely you can see that every reed stem is broken - this is damage done by the starlings, due to the sheer weight of numbers over the weeks they have been roosting there.
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It's hard (for me) when a lot of work goes into something and no one seems to notice the hard work… I have learned to mostly let that go, but this quote popped up and I was reminded of how much this was something I had to work through.
Theme: Working Conditions
Year Eighteen Of My 365 Project
Bleak conditions in the Brecon Beacons earlier today. This is the view across from Corn Du to Pen y Fan. Bitterly cold and high winds made for an interesting climb up to Pen Y Fan and some difficult photography. All images had to be taken 'hand held' as placing my camera onto a tripod would have seen it leaving Brecon and ending up in the Bristol Channel. LOL. Hope you like the images.
May 10, 2022
Tonight we were blessed with two hours of very good seeing conditions during my "prime time", so I was able to set up the larger telescope for some imaging of lunar details.
This is a close-up of Promontorium Laplace, the northern of the two "capes" that define the entrance to Sinus Iridum (the "Bay of Rainbows" from Mare Imbrium (the "Sea of Rains"). Here the tall cliffs of the Jura Mountains rise high above the lava plains to catch morning light. Notice the long sharp shadows cast by the 2600 meter high peak of the promontorium.
The main mass of the Jura Mountains extend across the frame just above center. These mountains are part of several mountain ranges that form the outer ring ridges that encircle the Moon's huge Imbrium Basin. The interior of the basin is filled with vast lava plains; a relatively small part of these plains fills the lower half of the photo. The plains appear smooth from our Earthly vantage, but this close-up shows the plains to be dotted by craters of all sizes. The pair of larger craters near the bottom center are Helicon (left - 25 km wide) and Le Verrier (right - 20 km wide). Le Verrier is surrounded by rougher-appearing terrain, probably ejecta from the crater itself. The smooth plains are also marked with long wavelike features, known as dorsae or wrinkle ridges. These low ridges show most impressively when illuminated by grazing sunlight.
Some isolated peaks rise above the lava plains of Mare Imbrium just interior to the ridges of the Jura Mountains. There are the long linear ridge of the Montes Recti and a cluster of isolated peaks known as the Montes Teneriffe. These mountains, together with others outside the frame of this photo are the remnants of an inner ring around the Imbrium Basin. Lower peaks of this ring were buried under the rising lava of Mare Imbrium.
Above the Jura Mountains another elongated stretch of lava plains spans the photo. This is Mare Frigoris (the "Sea of Cold"), the northernmost of the Moons great maria. It has many features similar to those of Mare Imbrium: a peppering of small craters, isolated peaks, and wrinkle ridges. Unlike most of the Moon's great maria, which were created by colossal asteroid impacts and subsequent upwelling lava, Mare Frigoris seems to have been created by a gigantic fissuring event that split the Moon's crust and allowed enormous curtain-like lava fountains to erupt across the moon's surface for thousands of kilometers. Similar eruptions on Earth are building Iceland, the volcano chains of Africa's Great Rift, and the mid-ocean ridges.
Above Mare Frigoris are the Moon's northern highlands, a jumble of craters of all ages, piled one on top of another.
The best 25% of 5,738 video frames were used to create this photo.
Stacking was done with Auto Stakkert!3. Wavelets and histogram adjustments with Registax 6. Final toning with Camera RAW and Photoshop CC 2022.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Absolutely wonderful conditions in the New Forest yesterday which I very nearly missed! I had set the alarm for 04.15, however a quick glance out of the window suggested that the dawn might not be that special so I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
Fortunately I woke again at 05.00 and by then the Moon could be seen through some thin cloud with a hint of mist forming. I hurriedly got ready and headed into the ‘Forest deciding to see what conditions were like at Mogshade.
I’m so pleased I made the effort as mornings like this don’t come around that often. A classic case of; ‘if you don’t go, you don’t know’!
Place: St-Jean-Sur Richelieu, Québec
Flight conditions:
Clear sky
Time: From 19:10 to 20:10
Temperature: 19 C
Wind speed at floor: 15 km/h (8 knots)
Cabine #8
Flight length: 60 min.
6 persons in the same basket including the pilote (almost you can't move). So impossible to take tripod with us :)
Working so hard for the take off and harder to put everything in order after the landing.
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Conditions came together for me as a Utah Railway local from Provo, passed through Salt Lake City at 8:45 p.m. on July 14, 2019. The sun's rays appeared at the last second, ducking beneath an opaque cloud bank. The sleepy moon in the sky was an unexpected bonus.
...of bad conditions. Having only one morning a week to get out with my camera can be very frustrating, especially as I am at the mercy of the weather. Once again this week there was some fantastic conditions though the week while I was at work, then more flat grey skies on my day off. This is the 3rd week in a row now so I am hoping for some better conditions before autumn is over, especially now the colours are really starting to change. This is a crop from a wider pano that I shot at Thirlmere yesterday morning where water levels are still very low.
Fantastic conditions to wander amongst the Herefordshire woodland. Early start well rewarded with solitude and light.
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The conditions weren't very favourable to get this quick shot, buried under thick foliage at the Ipswich Nature Centre. It was further complicated by the heavy Sigma Sport lens which would have been close to its minimum focussing distance.
But at least these beautiful little pair of Cockatiels were happy in the big aviary at the Centre. Sadly most of the animals seemed to have gone out for the day!
Aussie Native Birds
A former champion of the forest stripped bare for all to see. How the mighty have fallen. Still a magnificent specimen, and for once in conditions that gave this hero the atmosphere he deserved
In mucky conditions, 37800 has bought 466041 from Gillingham to be scrapped, and 37420 passes by on 5Z37 York NRM - Tyseley. 66701 on a loaded scrap train and kettle 60103 make up the shot. I was the only person here for the last scrap train, today it was crowded. I missed the head on shot of the 37 and lots of steam, keep an eye out for Terry's shot, it will be a belter.
It's been a fairly lean period for me lately, not able to get out much for one reason or another and when I could get out conditions were a bit of a battle.
This is a picture I made a couple of days ago during a bleak and miserable spell in the weather.
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Kuilei Cliffs Beach Park lies at the foothills of Diamond Head, between the Diamond Head Lighthouse and the residential community of Ka'alawai.The 11-acre beach park has a narrow beach backed by sea cliffs. The beach sand has a greenish hue and glitters in the sun. The sand along this stretch of coastline has already made an impression to early sailors. In 1825, British sailors noticed small sparkling calcite crystals in the beach sand along the crater's foothills and sea cliffs. They named the crater Diamond Hill. This name was later changed to Diamond Head. This is how the crater got its English name.
There are three popular drive-in lookouts along Diamond Head Road that offer sweeping views of this stretch of coastline (like the photograph above). To get to the beach, walk down the paved trail, located between two of the lookouts. The swimming conditions aren't good here because the nearshore ocean bottom is shallow and has a reef. However, this beach is a surfers' paradise as the reef generates waves almost every day and it is a lot less crowded here than in Waikiki. When the tradewinds are strong, this area is also popular among windsurfers.
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Can you spot all the surfers?
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Finally all the right conditions to get on the skis and get back into the back country. This was the location of a major bridge washout in the floods a couple of years ago. Now there is a temp bridge and work is underway to construct a new one.
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Small but hardy, this is one of the most northerly butterflies in the world, being recorded up to Greenland. It is common across the whole of Europe, and also occurs over large parts of North-America. Aside from native populations in the Arctic, some eastern populationsprobably resulted from an accidental introduction from Scandinavia during the colonial period.
Although not a migratory species, the Small Copper can readily colonize new territories in suitable habitat patches, in climatic conditions ranging from Mediterranean heat to arctic cold.
Ref. Butterflies of Britain and Europe by Tari Haahtela et al.
In nearly whiteout conditions, a Union Pacific flanger exits Tunnel 42 and races west through Andover, California. With snow over the rails and heavy storms on the forecast, Union Pacific’s dedicated snow fighting crews had their work cut out for them.
March 4th was a day to remember. Once the train passed, I slowly snowshoed the couple miles back to my truck. With ambient temperatures in the low 20’s and 50+ mph winds in Coldstream Canyon (making it feel closer to single digits), the trek was nothing short of memorable. Once back to the truck, it was time to head for Truckee Hotel as Interstate 80 would remain closed for several days.
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March 4th, 2022
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As I wait for my return flight home from a rather damp Croatia (I gave yet to start to review the pictures from the trip) I thought I would post another reminder of the cracking snowy conditions we found in the Dolomites.
This shot shows Mike and Craig, shortly after leaving the summit station of the Passo Pordoi gondola as they head towards the distant Piz Boe.
We have very windy conditions today, unfriendly weather for butterflies. This little fellow was battered around and seemed to gladly find safe harbor on my outstretched hand. I was able to get a good look at him, they don't seem to be made of anything more than fairy dust.
Since my one hand was occupied and I was using a manual focus lens, i focused by moving the camera back and forth. Learned that from a one armed sailor.
Challenging conditions, very warm and lots of turbulence, but I persevered today. Best of 3000 frames in PIPP, then 50% of 1200 images, stacked in AS2!
Equipment:
Skywatcher 120ED Esprit
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PGR Grasshopper 3 IMX174
Superb conditions up in the north Lakes yesterday - snow was over knee-deep in places.
The hill in the middle is Birks / St Sunday Crag, and the valley is Patterdale. Ullswater is just on view on the right. If you look closely you can see a very faint rainbow - see if you can spot it.
The very same tree that I have already photographed in conditions of dense fog, with the only difference that this was taken on another day and, due to a different intensity of the fog, the tree's structure is more delineated... it almost looks as a pencil drawing, or, at least, that's what I've thought on the spot :-)
One year is about to "leave" a new year is "coming", the truth is that none of this is actually happening, these are our earthly illusions. There is only one continuum that goes beyond our understanding, lost in the incomprehensible mists of time and space.
Basically we are like this tree, unaware of what really surrounds us out of the "big white" (which can be read metaphorically in many ways)... Only one thing is clear: as human beings, from the depths of our non-knowledge, we are constantly looking for pretexts of hope. A useful attitude, no doubt.
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