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"top crop" pics are uploaded in no particular order, 33 in total, I tried top 10 and there's no way I could restrict myself to 10, top 20 didn't work either, 33 made the cut (paddle up/down stream for more), I'll re-upload 3 a day before the New Year
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that one got probably most exuberant praise from the comments and I guess I can see why, strangely again I do like it but probably not as much as commenters did, it just goes to show ... show what? ... you know, it goes to show something or other ...
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There was this old(ish) Soviet comedy movie, where 3 friends have a tradition of going to a sauna every New Year's eve. On this occasion, they had a few too many shots of vodka after the sauna and sent one of the guys (wrong guy) to a wrong city on a wrong flight... All sorts of hilarity ensue, all ends up with a heart warming love story. The movie Is a masterpiece. It is being screened and watched every year around New Year's eve for like 40 years now. It is a Russian reply to Love Actually. Only it's been out 20 years earlier so LA would be Brits' reply to it.
But I digress. I broke my wrist last year just before Christmas so I thought "that sounds like a good Xmas tradition, why not make it an annual affair?" And I did. That's my going to sauna annual gig now.
Now in a cast and a man of enforced leisure I am picking my top shots of the year.
The exercise has demonstrated to me 2 things:
- it's been a good year. In photographic terms. I ended up with 33 shots which I am determined to keep in the winners' bunch, none of them I want to dismiss. 33 photos I really like from one year is a very good crop in my book. It's 10% of good stuff out of all shots. I wouldn't ask for more.
- I have to renew "photo a day" business. I have PaD to thank for the shots I got. The discipline and relentless photoing of PaD inevitably produce good shots. If it wasn't for PaD I wouldn't have most of the shots in my top crop bunch. And who am I to rob humankind of great photos? I am in no position to do such a thing. So I have to start PaD for the sake of humanity.
...carefully crop out the unnecessary complications and look at it in a different perspective. It might not be right but you could have been wrong...
A cropped version of the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946). This image is comprised of data from two separate sessions a year apart. There were no reported supernovae in the galaxy between the two dates. The data from 2020 was closely framed enough for the more recent data to be added to it giving an exposure time of 5 hours and 40 minutes. The long exposure time certainly brought out more detail. However, the stars on the earlier set of images are a little misshapen and that affected the final image.
The Fireworks Galaxy (also known as NGC 6946) is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, located 25.2 million light-years away from Earth between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. It is part of the Virgo Supercluster but not part of the Local Group. On Wikipedia, there is a debate about the diameter of NGC 6946 with the article claiming it's 40,000 light-years in diameter, while a professional researcher in extragalactic astrophysics claims the diameter is around 70,000 light-years. I measured it using the given distance (which isn't being debated) and found it to be 66,590 light-years, close to the astrophysicist's measurement. NGC 6946 contains roughly half the number of stars as the Milky Way. It is heavily obscured by interstellar matter due to its location close to the galactic plane of the Milky Way, making it challenging to image in detail. Due to its prodigious star formation, it has been classified as an active starburst galaxy. Ten supernovae have been observed in NGC 6946 in the 20th and early 21st century, the most recent occurring in May 2017. This is about ten times the rate observed in our Milky Way galaxy leading some to refer to it as the Fireworks Galaxy.
29/05/2020
038 x 300-second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
050 x dark frames
040 x flat frames
100 x bias frames
Binning 1x1
16/07/2021
030 x 300-second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
050 x dark frames
035 x flat frames
100 x bias frames
Binning 1x1
Total integration time = 5 hours and 40 minutes
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in Nebulosity and Photoshop
Equipment:
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro with anti-dew heater
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector
Optolong L-Pro filter
This crop duster was spraying the cotton fields in Lee County, AR while I was travelling down highway US79.
The hay bales, like most other things, remind me of food. Every time I see them, I get visions of delicious swiss rolls dancing in my head.
The only better vision than swiss rolls (with the possible exception of those visions that are better) are visions of swiss rolls covered in whipped cream!
Pavlov should have experimented on me rather than animals.
Taken in Tanzania.
HDR (3 exposures)
5D II 17-40 @ 17mm
Processing in Photomatix (Tonemaping) and PS (Curves & saturation layers)
blogged! bloomingleopold.blogspot.com
leather wood wedges - madewell
patchwork denim shorts - thrifted
1990's floral crop top - thrifted
red grosgrain ribbon - gift
Excited to show Avalons newest item the 2 styled male crop top
Available in the marketplace under Avalon
marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Avalon-Mens-Cropped-Shirt-Fa...
navy blue schoolboy blazer- vintage
gray tank- sophomore nyc
jeggings- silence + noise
rust platforms- seychelles
black leather handbag with giant gold hardware- balenciaga
crystal necklace in bullet- unearthen
With the weather being dull and grey I thought I'd take the opportunity to brush up my photoshop skills using one of the shots from Cleadon last Sunday night. I've been working on trying to bring out the "glow" you get at sunset a little more in my post processing and this was a nice test image since it was partially side-lit so the barley was catching the light.
Also, this was a really interesting field - full of circular patches withou any barley - not proper crop circles (I wish we had some nutters up in Northumberland who did the full on crop circle stuff!) but circular boggy patches where the farmer had left it alone.
Anyway, I'd be interested in people's thoughts as to whether this is a little more "luminous" than my standard stuff. Photoshop is still a bit of a mystery to me!
EOS 50D / Sigma 10-20mm / Hitech 0.9 ND HE
Airplane View, Western United States
I've always liked the pattern left by these giant irrigation systems. Perfect green circles in an otherwise parched land. This photo was taken on 18 minutes after the previous image but the landscape looks totally different. I'm guessing this is still in New Mexico but maybe we are close to Arizona.