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Breitscheidplatz
Berlin / Germany
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This is the Large Magellanic Cloud, the main Local Group member and a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, some 160,000 light years away, It is visible only from the southern hemisphere. Nowhere else in the sky do we see such a profuse collection of star-forming nebulas as here in this frame the width typical of binocular fields, about 7.5° by 5º.
The LMC is a dwarf irregular galaxy though with structures that resemble a barred spiral galaxy. Tidal disruptions caused by its passage near our Galaxy are sparking an intense level of star formation and star death – some of the nebulas are bubbles blown out by exploding or dying stars.
The main region of nebulosity is the massive Tarantula Nebula complex (NGC 2070) at left, with its twisted and tortured structure. The other main area is the NGC 1763 complex at upper right. At upper left are the nebulas NGC 2020 and NGC 1955, among many others. At lower right is the NGC 1748 complex. At lower left is NGC 2018.
However, the region is so rich it is hard to identify which object is which, especially as most atlases don't agree on the labels. Even amateur photos such as this reveal patches of nebulosity that are not plotted as such on star charts.
While many of the nebulas are red or pink from hydrogen alpha emission, many are cyan from predominant oxygen III emission.
This is a blend of images taken through a dual-band nebula filter and without any filter. This is a stack of 12 x 10-minute exposures at ISO 3200 through an IDAS NBZ dual-band (OIII and H-a) filter that adds most of the nebulosity, blended with a stack of 20 x 5-minute exposures at ISO 800 with no filter for the main "natural light" background content.
The Canon EOS R camera I used was modified by AstroGear.net to be more sensitive to H-a light. It was on the little Sharpstar 61mm EDPH III refractor with its Reducer for f/4.4, and on the Astro-Physics AP400 mount autoguided with the Lacerta MGEN III stand-alone auto-guider. Inter-frame dithering eliminated hot pixels on this warm night. No dark frames were employed.
Taken March 4, 2024 on a perfect autumn night at the Mirrabook Cottage near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia and down the hill, literally, from the Siding Spring Observatory. While the camera was shooting I enjoyed touring the southern Milky Way with binoculars. It was stargazing heaven!
Harefield is located between Junee and Wagga, NSW Australia. No city lights or powerlines to spoil the vista.
Nikon D750. Tokina 20-35mm.
This is the first image I edited in Nik Silver Efex Pro (now free for download courtesy of Google). I used a preset with a few localized adjustments to darken a few areas and improve the contrast. I haven't used any of the other tools yet, but have always wanted to process B&W images with Silver Efex. It's easy to learn and very impressive.
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Je reviens en arrière avec Terre-Neuve. 2022 juin 06
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Photos prise dans une gros brume. J'ai réussi à le dégager.
Les guillemots :
Parcourent jusqu’à 6 000 km par année au cours de leur migration sautent du sommet de falaises de plus de 500 m de haut à l’âge de trois semaines, et ce, avant que leur plumage ne soit complètement constitué peuvent vivre jusqu’à 25 ans
effectuent les 1 000 premiers kilomètres de leur voyage de migration à la nage lorsqu’ils sont encore au stade d’oisillon.
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Magdeburg / Germany
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Budapester Straße / Zoologischer Garten Berlin
Berlin / Germany
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The receding tide left fantastic bands through the dark sand on the beach at Staffin while the Quiraing played Peek-a-boo in the mist
As seen while wandering the streets one Summer afternoon in Buffalo, NY.
Technical: Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with the m.Zuiko 75mm f1.8 lens (3 shot HDR handheld). Base exposure: ISO200 | 1/600 | f1.8.
Post-Processing: Initial RAW Processing in DxO PhotoLab 4. HDR production handled by Nik HDR Efex Pro. HDR file processing in On1 Photo RAW 2021. Mono conversion in Nik Silver Efex Pro. Final adjustments in On1 Layers.
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Chances are that you have seen a number of sunrises from me, but sunsets are quite another story. Very little sunsets in my photostream. The reason for this is simple. I am not discriminating between sunrise and sunset, of course - both are beautiful, peaceful, culminating moments. On the other hand, I quite often love to contemplate a good sunset - and I am one who loves to drive other people's attention towards the beauty of a sunset (for some obscure reason so many people do not look at the sky any more...). But shooting at a sunset usually is beyond me: work, family life... only rarely I really stand a chance to get ready to seriously capture a sunset - I mean, something more than point my smartphone and take a photo from my garden.
Sunrises are a fundamentally different matter: nobody wants anything from me at that time of the day, so my chances to enjoy a sunrise session are substantially higher ;-) This is one of those precious occasions: my family and I were on a brief vacation in Umbria (see my Then Someone drew the curtains and... or A gift of Gold & Silk for some detail about this beautiful region in Central Italy) and in those days we allowed ourselves to live at a pretty leisurely pace. This made the trick and I did not miss the opportunity when it occurred.
Beautiful, peaceful, even moving as sunsets go, I still have a problem with them. Sunset is the end of the day, the end of light. It marks the beginning of the night, that is true: sunlight dies, but the gentle light of the stars gets center stage. However I do not love endings in general - I even feel a touch of sadness as I realize that the end of a book I am reading is getting close...
Well, this is where the intimate, astronomical relationship between sunset and sunrise come to rescue the situation. Everyone knows that our lives and that of our Mother Earth are governed by the endless cycle of night and day. So the sunset is just a chapter of a predictable - yet wondrous - story where it is followed by a sunrise, in a neverending rhythm that is the very pulse of our awesome living home planet. So at last I can enjoy a beautiful sunset without longing for the day that is flowing past.
Incredibly and inexplicably this photo of mine has ended up in Explore on 2022 September 29<\a>, albeit in the long tail of the gallery, about 4 years after the date of posting.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. In the process I used to great advantage a small trick of mine involving Nik SIlverEfex Pro 2. Another good contribution to post-processing came from a cool trick by Boris Hajdukovic I have found rather serendipitously on the web.
Post-scriptum
I am afraid that colours and tones of this picture are pretty close to the edge of looking overdone. It all depends on your screen, of course: the picture looks safely good on the Samsung screen where I have processed it, but it looks a bit over-the-top on my other screen (HP), so I have rather subtly downtoned it.
Now we know that a picture cannot possibly look right on every screen - the factors affecting the results are simply too many, including largely unpredictable ones, such as personal display settings. Admittedly one should not think too much about this, but when a photo is close to the critical boundary one should struggle to find the better balance between what she would like the photo to be and the risk of looking overdone. Since this photo is important to me, I would be grateful for comments about this matter, to help me realise if I have to downtone it a bit more :-)
Thank you very much in advance!
Minutes away from the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, Box Canyon feels like you are miles away from civilization.
“I’m very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I’m exploring.” – Tim Hetherington
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En mode recherche des vieux négatifs familiaux
Searching for old family film negatives
Cette photo provient d'un négatif 4x6, archives de ma grand mère maternelle, et je la date des années 50
This photo comes from a 4x6 negative, from my maternal grandmother's archives, and I date it to the 1950s.
I took this photo during the 2019 Raptor Fest held at the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
Leftover Crack
One of the storage rooms of the facility seemed to be where the taggers liked to leave their goods when exhausted...
Hardware: Olympus OM-D e-M1.2 with my new m.Zuiko 25mm f1.2 Pro lens and Haida NanoPro 6-9 stop variable ND Filter (in-camera HDR) - 25mm | f1.2 | ISO200 | 1/25th | EV -0.7.
Software: Initial RAW processing in DxO Photo Lab 4, majority of edits in On1 Photo RAW 2021 with a roundtrip to Nik Silver Efex Pro for mono conversion and film emulation which then got blended back into the original.
From wikipedia: "Concrete Central was built between 1915 and 1917 at the height of World War I. Due to its being the largest grain elevator in the world and concerns about German sabotage, Concrete Central's method of construction was top secret. The facility was utilized for grain storage until 1966. Concrete Central stretches along the Buffalo River for almost a quarter of a mile and was the largest transfer elevator in the world at the time of its completion in 1917.[2] It is also the largest elevator ever built in the Buffalo area. When in operation, it had the capacity to handle a total of 4.5 million US bushels (160,000 m3) of grain. The elevator allowed crews to load and unload 20 railroad cars an hour, and three marine legs along the Buffalo River side could load and unload three massive lake freighters at one time."
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Meer des Vergessens
Einfach mal abschalten...
Ich wünsche euch ein entspanntes Wochenende! :))
Let's just switch off... :))
I wish you all a relaxing weekend! :))
Tools: Aperture, Viveza 2, Analog Efex Pro 2, Pixelmator.
As near as I can work out this is the island of Otrøya in Midfjorden, south of Trondheim on the west coast of Norway .
September 2015.
Fuji X-T1, XF55-200/3.5-4.8, 1/500th sec at f/16, ISO 200
Yes we do have quite a few Eastern Water Dragons in our backyard, it is nice to have peaceful visitors. Today we had a very large one and also a smaller one, probably juvenile visiting. This is an image of the smaller one. The larger one was almost 100cm long.
The Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii) is generally about half a metre long with rough scales, sharp spines and ancient features that resemble fairytale dragons. They are grey-brown in colour with black banding, and some have a red belly and chest. Usually a broad black band extends through the eye. A crest of spines runs from the head to the tail.
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