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Not exactly the Shot I wanted. Wings a bit tattered; Focus not exact, Pose could be better. So, I still haven’t found what I'm looking for… But isn’t that what makes this photography thing so much fun, and a reason to get up tomorrow and try again :-)
(Nikon - Sigma 150-600 @ 600MM - 1/500 @ f7.1 - ISO 200)
For Old Fart F unit Friday we have a helper set with 2 F7's and a GP7 on a caboose hop about to leave the Erwin terminal on November 24, 1973.
This one was on the ground under trees
He was moving and so doing this photo was not an easy job
Big crop and very low light conditions so ISO 10k
Sony A7S
Tamron 150-600 G1
LA-EA4 adapter
600mm
F7.1
1/1250s
ISO 10k
(DSC07569-denoise1540-600mmF71ISO10k-1250s-11600-denoise1015+crb+crb)
One of my favorite things about travel photography is seeing beautiful things that are new to me, then the focus becomes trying to capture them in less than ideal conditions with limited amounts of time while also trying not to bore your travel partner. This scene of a stream come salt marsh captured my eye while driving along the Northside Road from Shipwreck Point, so much so that I had to turn around and drive back to capture it. Sometimes the most beautiful details in life are the unexpected things we find between departure and arrival, this is the good stuff, we are all on a journey to the same destination some long some short but the trick is to make sure you enjoy the ride.
I took this on Sept 15, 2022 with my D850 and Tamron 24-70 f2.8 G2 Lens at 42mm, 1/60s, f7.1 ISO 64 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia ,Topaz, and DXO Nik
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress
Part 1 of a double WhaMmy for F unit Friday. WM 52 in circus paint has arrived in Brewster leading a trio of F's on Sunday September 30, 1973 with a mixed freight Alpha Jet
Deer and other wildlife in parks often acclimatize to humans and loose their natural fear. This is good for wildlife photographers, but bad for wildlife. Once they leave the protection of the park they are easy targets for hunters and poachers. I easily approached to within 50 feet of this a small group of deer very near the Tioga Pass entrance. They largely ignored me. I hope they stay in the park and don't stray into nearby Inyo National Forest.
Nikon D500, Nikon 200-500mm f5.6E
Focal length 500mm f7.1 1/640s ISO 2000
IC443, Jellyfish Nebula. This is my 1st of 2 images taken between the 16th and 21st January, very unusual to get 3 out of 4 clear nights, it was actually clear on the 22nd as well but decided not to go out.
I also image this about a year ago using my Meade 115mm APO with the Same Explore 0.7 focal reducer but decided I wanted to retake this in a wide field, longer exposures and more of them. This was easily the most subs over the longest time I’ve ever undertaken, 8h 20min over 2 nights. I wasn’t planning to but I got a bonus night on the 21st and it was either start on a new subject or double the amount of subs on the jellyfish, I went with the latter.
Note:
I removed all the stars after the initial processing using StarNet++ and then added the combined Ha Oiii stars back in at the end.
IC443 also known as the “Jellyfish Nebula” is a supernova remnant located in the constellation Gemini. It’s is approximately 5000 Light Years from earth with apparent size of 50’x40’ arcmin. This nebula contains the collapsed remnants of a stellar core and is one of the most studied supernova remnants. The age of this supernova is uncertain but is believed to have happened some 3,000 - 30,000 years ago.
EQUIPMENT:-
Telescope: Explore Scientific 102mm F7 APO Carbon
Focal Reducer: Explore Scientific 0.7
Mount: AZ-EQ6 GT
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos
Guide Camera: Orion Mini Auto Guide
Filter: Astronomik 6nm Ha
Filter: Astronomik 6nm Oiii
IMAGING DETAILS:-
IC443 Jellyfish Nebula (Gemini)
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC
Dithering
50 Ha subs@300sec (4h 10min)
50 Oiii subs@300sec (4h 10min
Total imaging Time 8h 20min
20 Darks
25 Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
APT "Astro Photograph Tools"
StarNet++
DSS
PS CS2
On August 10, 1985, Streamline Excursions, Inc. sponsored the "Return of the 400," a round trip passenger excursion between Amtrak's St. Paul-Minneapolis Midway Station to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on the Chicago & North Western’s main line to Milwaukee and Chicago, once the route of the famous “400.” Pulling the passenger train was C&NW F7s Nos. 402 and 401, shown during a runby at the depot in Hudson, Wisconsin, toward the end of the day on the return trip.
Sigma/500mm-f4.5-ex-dg-hsm-apo +
Sigma APO 1,4x EX DG teleconverter -> 700mm
D800E ^ 1/1250 ^ f5.0 = f7.1
Digicam VNG-> Tiff version + DXO Tiff file version merge
70/30%
+ SuperDenoising for Apple
ISO 320 (-0.7)
35%Crop
Another one from last week in the meadow not far from where I found the Soldier Beetle. Noticed this woodlouse perched on the very tip of a grass seed head. Unusual in that it didn't move at all during the time I was taking the shots, but when I switched lenses to try a higher mag shot, it suddenly woke up and walked off!
This is a 12 shot focus stack taken using a Laowa 100mm f2.8 1.5:1 lifesize, ISO100, F7.1, 1.3 sec
Best viewed very large.
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After dropping off their passengers in downtown Jim Thorpe, JTOS is seen heading south across the Lehigh River as they wye the train for the trip back south to Reading
RBMN JTOS
RBMN F9-A #270
RBMN F7-B #275
RBMN SD50-2 #5018
RBMN SD50-2 #5019
The 1140 'Polar Express' from Mount Dora Plaza arrives at Tavares, 23 Nov 2018.
The train is being worked top and tail by 1912 and 800
Not good but don't think any of us will get to overtake Extra 233 East with a brace of F-Units from the eastbound High Level El Capitan any time soon. 1968.
Delivered from ALCo in 1938, The Milwaukee Road F7 Hudson's were in my opinion, the most beautiful steam locomotives to grace the high iron. I personally never had seen one, but stories from my father and others brought the magnificent Hudson to life in my mind. Here in a summer of 1944 scene, engine 102 screams across the C&NW at Mayfair crossing, bound for Chicago Union Station.
MILW 102
Mayfair IL.
Summer 1944
Unknown Photographer
D.A.Longley collection
Exercising my mind / Flights of fancy - making some digitial collages from found creative common elements and my own work
The SOO GP7's disappeared from Upper Michigan in late 79 with the odd curtain call until February 1980. Catching 377 leading an extra west with 703 at Gilchrist was my last picture of a GP7 leading in the UP. I shot this on 2-6-80..We still had a few F7's pass through until April 1980 but after that it was a fairly steady steam of SD40/40-2, GP38-2's with the odd GP9 or early 2 generation hood mixed it until Lake States. A rescan.
This intriguing dark nebula is LDN 1622 and appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only easily seen in long telescopic exposures of the region. LDN 1622 lies near the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, close on the sky to Barnard's Loop - a large cloud surrounding the rich complex of emission nebulae found in the Belt and Sword of Orion.
Apo TEC140 (140/f7.2) - FLI Proline 16803 - Ha (330m) L (240m) R (120m) G (120m) B (120m) - Warrumbungle Observatory, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia
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WP F7 918-D is being prepared for an eastbound trip through the Feather River Canyon on the WP’s Third Subdivision. The 918-D is paired with GP20 2008 and F7 921-D.
Kodacolor Negative by Bob Black. Photo circa 1972. #1956