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The weather forecast was a bit bleak for us to head anywhere too far this morning, so we popped into Sydney for a sunrise at the passenger terminal.
I was waiting for the golden light to hit the sydney harbour bridge when I turned to notice the sun just peeking through that gap in the sails, so quickly turned around to shoot it in that fleeting moment that it was in position. Turned out to be my favourite shot of the morning :)
When the alarm went off at 4:30 AM a couple of weeks ago, I gritted my teeth and told myself, yet again, that a 95% burn forecast on Skyfire doesn't come along every day. I had also checked the satellite the night before and I knew there was a decent chance of some color down in Laguna, but I had been shut out PLENTY of times down there before. I can't begin to count the number of times over the past couple of years where I made the drive based on a Skyfire forecast only to show up and have the sun duck behind some clouds right at game time, or worse...have the clouds disappear altogether.
So when I groggily pulled up at Heisler Park at 5 AM, I wasn't sure what to expect. I was further unnerved by the fact that I was here on a Sunday morning and it looked like I was the only photographer who showed up. I started to set up my tripod, but one of the legs locked up and I had to improvise by hanging the stupid thing over a railing. Muttering to myself like a deranged homeless guy, I fought with the tripod and shivered as the wind had picked up substantially. "Bah!", I thought to myself. "I came all the way down here for what, exactly?"
And then I looked up. And smiled. The sky definitely began to glow early, and I really thought it was going to blow up in a big way. But just as the clouds really began to glow, the sun went behind another cloud beyond the horizon, and it looked like the show was over. Grimacing a bit, I folded up my broken tripod and headed back to the car, bummed that the sunrise fizzled out, but glad to be going home with at least a couple of shots. Just out of curiosity, I thought I should head up North a bit to Shaw's Cove to see what it looked like during high tide. Fisherman's Cove was out because most of it would be under water, but Shaw's should still work to get some scouting shots in, if nothing else.
I pulled my car around and muttered some more salty words at a scuba diver who stole my spot right in front of me, made a u turn....and my jaw hit the floor. While I had been finding a parking space, the sky had indeed blown up…in a huge way. I flew down the stairs to the Cove, ditching the broken tripod and began shooting like crazy. This was easily the most color I had ever seen in Laguna and the crimson red and fiery orange spilled out over the wet sand in all directions. And it just kept going! The reds eventually gave way to a brilliant golden glow giving me plenty of time to run up and down the beach and out onto the rocks. I think I clocked in around 600 shots by the time the sun went behind another cloud and I headed off, exhausted, to to Jack In The Box.
Kudos to Skyfire which knocked this one out of the park, This was a sunrise that I probably would have missed as I thought the cloud cover was going to be too deep. It was also a good reminder that every so often, those 4:30 AM wake up times actually pay off.
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In Birmingham tonight the weather said we could expect snow! I wouldn't mind it making one last return!!
Most of the time this was the typical weather while hiking through the high mountain plateau in Hadangervidda. The only exception here was that there was no heavy cold summer shower.
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Made another pre-dawn jaunt this morning to Covesea near Lossiemouth. Once again I was let down by a poor cloud forecast and had over an hour to wait atop this small clifftop before being finally rewarded with a brief splash of colour.
The forecast was calling for clear skies but the skies I was looking at were anything but clear. If the forecast for Forster was wrong, what confidence could I have that the forecast for Port Macquarie would be right?
Despite my doubts I decided to lay my faith in the powers of weather apps and made my way to Tacking Point Lighthouse. Apparently the 'partly cloudy' status was moving to 'clear' at around 9pm so when I arrived at 11pm to the sight of clouds I was a little heart broken.
Fortunately things did look like they were moving in the right direction so I got to work at setting myself up ready and quickly discovered that the clouds weren't my only obstacle. Firstly - the moon was throwing glare into my lens which I resolved with a change of lenses. Apparently Nikons 16-35 f4 isn't victim to the same flare as Nikons 14-24 f2.8 is at 16mm (go figure). Next was my desire to shoot with two cameras but only one intervalometer. Than my missing XQD card, than...
In the end it all came together, my clouds cleared, my cameras worked and I retreated to the car with my blanket..
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I've been watching the astronomical forecast for the last week or so, since it's Milky Way season here in the Northeastern United States. Last night was the first time the, er, stars aligned, so to speak, so I headed out to the outer part of Cape Cod to Coast Guard Beach, part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. It's one of only a handful of spots in eastern Massachusetts that gets dark enough for Milky Way photos. I had a brief moment of panic when I arrived, and just as I parked the clouds came roiling overhead, blanketing the entire sky. Fortunately, they cleared out just as fast as they came in, and I was able to get a few shots of the sky.
I was also itching to try out the new toy: after 8 years, and nearly 72,000 shots, I finally upgraded from my old D7000 body to a full-frame Nikon D750. I'll probably keep the D7000 around as a spare body for events. I'm pretty pleased with how things came out.
This is 6 shots total: 5 shot back-to-back, all 20s @ ƒ/4, ISO6400, with a 6th shot also at 20s @ ƒ/4 but with the focus tweaked to the chair and some light painting of the foreground. I used Starry Landscape Stacker to align the first five shots and get rid of some noise, and used the resulting sky mask to composite in the light painted foreground. Nikon D750 w/Tokina 17-35mm F/4 AT-X Pro FX lens. Final color finishing was done in Adobe Photoshop.
I have had very little success with the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) this year. Much of it is down to me being a little too lazy to stay up until 2 AM before venturing out. Another factor has been the number of days that were overcast when the Northern Lights were forecast. Last night, December 29 and 30th, 2022, I actually did venture out. Despite the prognostications of my phone’s weather application calling for cloud, the night was actually clear with stars visible in abundance. It was also a little windy and cold, but it would probably be my last chance in 2022 to capture the aurora so I ventured out anyway.
On this night, I elected to take the Canon EOS R instead of the Olympus E-M1. So, with a much more limited choice of lenses, I settled on the Laowa Argus FFII 35mm f/0.95. It's an all manual lens, but when mounted to a tripod non-electronic lenses are sometimes a better idea anyway. For one, I won’t forget to disable the OIS since it doesn't exist. Also, this particular lens is very fast with good sharpness even wide open. Stopped down to f/2.0 or f/2.8 and quality is absolutely not an issue while still providing a fairly wide and bright aperture. It seemed a better choice than the slower Canon lenses I own,
There was some auroral activity when I left my house around midnight (the camera’s clock metadata was showing almost an hour earlier than it was--I’ve now fixed this.). I travelled along the Alaska Highway to a point just south of the Whitehorse airport and the Hillcrest subdivision. It gave me a pretty good view of the northern sky while allowing me to include some road lights and human infrastructure, allowing for both context and reference in whatever images I took. Unfortunately, and this seems fairly normal for me, when I go in search of aurora, the time it takes to go from getting my gear together, presetting the camera, warming up the truck, and getting to my destination, things have changed considerably. In this case, the air was filling with ice crystals, almost a kind of fine suspended snow, that was hampering visibility, and the aurora had pretty much disappeared. Still, I set up my big tripod, camera and lens just in time to catch one last burst of light from the sky.
I took three shots in fairly quick succession. The first, significantly overexposing the road lights, really captured the greens in the sky, while the other two underexposed, and significantly underexposed, the sky respectively, but offered much more definition in the artificial lights below. These were to be test images, with more care taken thereafter, but everything faded so I got what I got. The result is far from perfect, but it shows how much potential exists if you’re willing to try. As a bonus, on processing the images I noticed that I may have inadvertently captured a couple meteors near the right side. Now that’s an unexpected wow for me.
Photo taken with the Canon EOS R and Laowa Argus FFII 35mm f/0.95 mounted to a Jobu Designs tripod with Acratech ball-head. Raw conversion and image stacking performed in Adobe Lightroom Classic 12, with geometric correction and additional tweaks performed in DxO PhotoLab 6.1.1.
The weather forecast was good, but in the afternoon it turned out to be terrible until it cleared up completely. Still decided to go to this beautiful place, even though it was an hour's drive. In the end, the sky became magical. On the horizon, you can see an old pier from 1930.
Although the forecast was for a warm day, the wind gusts in the region were predicted to be as high as 50 km's per hour, so we elected to explore the more sheltered route to the Memorial Lakes above Kananaskis Village. Ordinarily, Larry and I do not separate on our scrambles, but Larry was keen to summit Bogart Tower, and I was concerned about the strong winds, as well as our lack of strong documentation of the exact route. So I let Larry go ahead, and took photos from ridge below the Tower.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
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plenty more, I took too many..
I can forecast the weather and I am always accurate. I dabble in fortunes too. Come back tomorrow and have your fortune read.
Despite the weather forecast I headed up to Lake Pearson for a three days, and managed a couple of short walks between bands of rain. This photo needs no introduction to those from Canterbury, NZ, and is Castle Hill Station taken from the popular walk into the rocks area. Rain is falling in the peaks at the western end of Craigieburn Range, but thankfully the weather let me walk around the rocks with only the odd shower reaching me.
We are in for some wintery weather over the next few days. As is typical there won't be any sun so I did enjoy this lovely sunrise this morning.
Forecast said for high clouds but there weren't any that morning and it wus much colder then expected -11 °C. I have spotted this lovely tree few months ago when it still had green leaves on, I thad this unusual uniform shape. I wanted to come back when leaves turned yellow but I mussed it by few days and they were all gone. I thing this winter sunrise does it justice. What do you think, Please leave a comment below.
Once in a while, Mother Nature stops me in my tracks with my jaw hanging open. This was one of those moments.
A friend and I were led here by an #escaype forecast for a burn above low fog, and got both :)
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shout-out to Kristal Leonard for inspiring me to explore this area for the last couple years.
Series of five. Only the baby Stonechats were out today - maybe they had heard the forecast! I was ten feet from the car after my walk when the heavens opened! Amazing how wet you can get in that time!
After weeks of non eventful sunrises, I decided to give it a miss as more drab weather was forecast for Sunday. Instead I would have a much deserved lay in. Unfortunately, my dog had other ideas and went nuts in the middle of the night and must have woken the whole street by his incessant barking. I decided to get up and out and headed for Caister beach as it was only 5 minutes down the road. Just goes to show, never pay any attention to the weather forecast.
Choices based on the forecast were limited yesterday, so once again Iain and I had our hands forced and headed towards the north coast of Sutherland. We had met in time to make a sunrise en-route but with unexpected rain and zero colour we kept on driving. Reaching Crask/Altnaharra took nearly 2.5 hours from leaving home so it focused our decision making to stop at these roadside falls on the River Vastige to get something in the camera (and grab a coffee and biscuit!),
I'm ready :)
Smile on Saturday: Happy Feet.
I usually use these in the pool :)
We really need a good soaking of rain to break the drought. We do seem to go from "droughts to flooding rains" but I don't think we'll get that much!
This salt pond had become a popular spot in the bay area lately, since a lot of salt are exposed prior to the storm.
The Sunrise burn was predicte by Yiupai sunset forecast service.
Woolly Bear Caterpillar encountered near the Big Met Wetlands at the Rocky River Reservation Metro Park. So what kind of winter will it be Mr. Woolly Bear?
The forecast for Jupiter is for stormy weather at low northern latitudes. A prominent string of alternating storms is visible, forming a ‘vortex street’ as some planetary astronomers call it. This is a wave pattern of nested cyclones and anticyclones, locked together like the alternating gears of a machine moving clockwise and counterclockwise. If the storms get close enough to each other and merge together, they could build an even larger storm, potentially rivalling the current size of the Great Red Spot. The staggered pattern of cyclones and anticyclones prevents individual storms from merging. Activity is also seen interior to these storms; in the 1990s Hubble didn’t see any cyclones or anticyclones with built-in thunderstorms, but these storms have sprung up in the last decade. Strong colour differences indicate that Hubble is seeing different cloud heights and depths as well.
The orange moon Io photobombs this view of Jupiter’s multicoloured cloud tops, casting a shadow toward the planet’s western limb. Hubble’s resolution is so sharp that it can see Io’s mottled-orange appearance, the result of its numerous active volcanoes. These volcanoes were first discovered when the Voyager 1 spacecraft flew by in 1979. The moon’s molten interior is overlaid by a thin crust through which the volcanoes eject material. Sulphur takes on various hues at different temperatures, which is why Io’s surface is so colourful. This photo was taken on 12 November 2022.
[Image description: Jupiter looms large in this image. Set against a black background, the planet is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream. White and cream colored ovals punctuate the planet at all latitudes.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. H. Wong (UC Berkeley), J. DePasquale (STScI); CC BY 4.0
Nugget: bokk! bok -ko
Connie: Yes, I do see the sun☀️
Orelia: bokk b-oo-kk
Connie: No clouds ☁️
Nugget and Orelia: bokk b-b-okk! bo-k-kkkk!
Connie: Yes it’s hot and it’s getting hotter tomorrow. I’m sorry Wubbas.
Nugget: b-o-k-k!
Happy Wubba Wednesday!
Checked the forecast yesterday evening, looked promising for a nice sunrise. When I arrived this morning there was a thunderstorm approaching. Did get a nice sky though.
What it is really , a weather forecast every bit as accurate as the person on the television after the news . Whether it is the slate or the presenter with the fancy map with symbols and isobars , the weather at the moment is not doing as it is told . That sun and blue sky is proving rather elusive these days !!
Pictures from the relatively long ride over southern crest of Lagginhorn. Clouds were getting more and more which was to be expected regarding the uncertain forecast for the afternoon. At least we reached the hut early at afternoon and the bad weather came a little bit late.
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Tuesday, 22 September 2020: our temperature at 7:00 am is 5C (windchill 4C)). It is forecast to get up to 15C this afternoon. Sunrise is at 7:23 am and sunset is at 7:32 pm.
Almost three years ago, on 12 November 2017, I went with a group of seven birding friends on a very enjoyable day trip S and SE of Calgary. This old barn on one of the roads was an unexpected treat (for me) and, as I only managed to take a few rapid shots of it through the windscreen from the back seat, I was determined to one day do this drive myself and take a better look at this fine old barn (from the road, as usual).
Yesterday, 21 September 2020, was THE day! It started around 9:00 am with a drive south to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. It was very quiet at that early hour and on a weekday, though I knew it would get busier as the day wore on. There are always all sorts of things to photograph there, including colourful flowers, a chicken or two, and various odds and ends. There is sadness at the Farm at the moment, as someone stole one of their much-loved cats, named Alfie, a matter of days ago. He is a pure grey cat and he has a sister at the Farm who looks just like him. She now wanders around the farm grounds, looking for him, in vain. Despite pleas to return Alfie, there has been no response.
From the Farm, the next destination was to go and find this old barn again. When I was there in 2017, I'm not sure if I saw the old rocking horses on each fence post. We were carpooling and I suspect they were out of my view. The barn is certainly weathered, but it is still standing straight and tall.
Driving further S and SE, more barns were to be seen. Part of the drive was in an area that I had explored recently. A few old grain elevators were thrown in for good measure.
As for birds, where were they? Not a single Hawk of any kind and really no small birds, either. A handful of Grey Partridge taking off were pretty much the only birds we saw. However, this was not planned as a birding day, but as an old barn day, and it turned out to be satisfyingly rewarding!
I did not check good enough the forecast, so it was lightly raining, but the temples are really impressive in the morning.
All week if the forecast is to be believed! Dodging the showers today so more raindrops on a tulip, sometimes you just have to work with what you've got!