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As the sun begins to set on the West Coast, the last strong rays touch on the inselbergs and taller Joshua trees of the high Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree National Park.
Captured near the parking lot for the Barker Dam Nature Trail, I like the way the light is caught only by the tallest inselberg, the spines of the Joshua Trees, and the few clouds in the sky.
Recognition:
Selected for Display - JUN 2023 San Diego County Fair International Exhibition of Photography (Monochrome Landscape category
Accepted for Display - OCT 2022 Darkroomers Photographic Club, and can be found in the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park, San Diego.
Freedom Tower WTC & Lower Manhattan View at Sunset from North 5th St Pier and Park Williamsburg Brooklyn New York City NY P00685 DSC_1485
Black-Capped Chickadee.
Between 4 3/4 to 5 3/4 inches long. Black cap and throat, white cheeks, gray back and dull white underparts. Wing feathers edged with white.
They can be found in deciduous and mixed forests, and open woodlands and suburban areas in winter.
They range from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to northern California and east to northern New Jersey. They winter south to Maryland and Texas.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Black-Capped Chickadee.
Between 4 3/4 to 5 3/4 inches long. Black cap and throat, white cheesk, gray back and dull white underparts. Wing feathers narrowly and indistinctly edged with white.
They can be found in deciduous and mixed forests, and open woodlands and suburban areas in winter.
They range from Alaska east across Canada to Newfoundland, and south to northern California, northern New Mexico, Missouri and northern New jersy. Winters south to Maryland and Texas.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
New Point Comfort Light (during the golden hour).
www.newpointcomfortlighthouse.org/
New Point Comfort Natural Area Preserve
www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/united...
A cairn on the ascending trail to the Mont Jacques Cartier summit (Parc National de la Gaspésie, Québec, Canada)
On our trip last September to observe the last of the woodland caribous in Gaspésie, we stopped next to a stone cairn to take a peak at the surrounding landscape through the dissipating fog.
The sight is a reminder of what the caribous have to endure to avoid predators, reaching the cold summit to find food. It was disappointing not to see any caribou on that part of the trail, but we were expecting this; the ones living here are the only herd of this species still living south of the St. Lawrence River, and in spite of the protection measures in place across the park, their survival is threatened.
A caribou we did manage to see on the path down, on a car path surrounded by thick woods; it stared at us but quickly vanished among the trees before we could even lift the cameras. We could not snap any pictures, but were happy witnesses nevertheless!
At Circle B Bar Reserve, Polk County, Florida, USA.
In Florida, Bald Eagles( Haliaeetus leucocephalus) begin nest maintenance and building in mid-October. It takes about 20 weeks to hatch eggs and raise the young until they fly. During the nesting cycle, the parents remain within one to two miles of the nest. We rarely see Bald Eagles in Florida from May to October.
Das Bergland um San Cristóbal wird hauptsächlich von Mayas bewohnt. In den vom Maya-Stamm der Tzotzil bewohnten Ortschaften im Norden und Nordwesten San Cristóbals wie Chamula und Zinacantán werden zum Teil noch indigene Traditionen und Lebensweisen bewahrt und gepflegt. Die Bewohner dieser Dörfer sprechen häufig, wenn überhaupt, Spanisch nur als erste Fremdsprache.
Anfang 1994 geriet San Cristóbal de las Casas kurzzeitig in den Fokus der Weltöffentlichkeit, als dort die Zapatisten ihren Aufstand begannen, organisiert in der EZLN, die sich für die Rechte der indigenen Bevölkerung einsetzt und den Folgen der Globalisierung kritisch gegenübersteht. San Cristóbal wurde ab dem 1. Januar drei Tage von den Zapatisten besetzt, bis sie von der mexikanischen Armee verdrängt wurden. Die Zapatisten zogen sich darauf ins umliegende Bergland und in die Urwälder an der Grenze zu Guatemala zurück.
White-Tailed Deer fawn.
From between 27 to 45 inches tall and 6 to 7 feet long and weighing 150-310 pounds (male) and 90 to 211 pounds (female). Tan or reddish brown in summer and graying brown in winter. Belly, throat, nose band, eye ring and inside of ears are white. Tail brown and edged with white above often with a dark stripe down the center and white below. Black spots on side of chin. Buck's antlers can spread to 3 feet. Does rarely have antlers. Fawns are spotted.
The White-Tailed Deer inhabits farmlands, brushy areas, woods, suburbs and gardens.
They range throughtout the southern half of the southern tier of Canadian provinces and through most of the United States except for the Southwest.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
In 1927 Dr. Edward E. Webber opened the Webber Hospital at 5601 Grand Avenue in a neoclassical building of brick and sandstone designed by Harold Starin and A. Reinhold Melander. The building features an entry with stone columns and carvings of medical symbols. When it first opened it also housed the Webber Pharmacy along Grand Avenue.
zenithcity.com/archive/historic-architecture/west-duluths...
White-Tailed Deer (Albino).
From between 27 to 45 inches tall and 6 to 7 feet long and weighing 150-310 pounds (male) and 90 to 211 pounds (female). Tan or reddish brown in summer and grayish brown in winter. Belly, throat, nose band, eye ring and inside of ears are white. Tail brown and edged with white above often with a dark stripe down the center and white below. Black spots on side of chin. Buck's antlers can spread to 3 feet. Does rarely have antlers. Fawns are spotted.
The White-Tailed Deer inhabits farmlands, brushy areas, woods, suburbs and gardens.
They range throughtout the southern half of the southern tier of Canadian provinces and through most of the United States except for the Southwest.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Black-Capped Chickadee.
Between 4 3/4 to 5 3/4 inches long. Black cap and throat, white cheeks, gray back and dull white underparts. Wing feathers edged with white.
They can be found in deciduous and mixed forests, and open woodlands and suburban areas in winter.
They range from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to northern California and east to northern New Jersey. They winter south to Maryland and Texas.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia
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The Past: the Stone House (1848)
The Present: the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, 20 December 2020
The Future: the Park Ranger who unbeknownst to me is about to chase me out of the park…
The Great Conjunction hasn’t happened in almost 400 years, since 1623; Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the night sky to form a single bright point on December 21, 2020. A similar event over 2000 years ago is thought by some historians to be the Star of Bethlehem that led the wise men to the Infant Jesus.
What you see here was supposed to be a practice shot the night before but wound up being my best photo of this little adventure.
I have been planning this photo since I found out about the celestial event taking place…it will not happen again until 2080. I have wanted to try my hand at landscape astrophotography for a while, and this event was perfect for a first time. The Stone House is such a wonderful and iconic historic building and its relatively remote location was ideal for the angle needed to see the conjunction (between 220˚ and 240˚).
The Stone House served as an impromptu field hospital for not just one, but two massive battles of the American Civil War: the first major battle of the war First Manassas (Bull Run according to the North, July 21, 1861), and it’s even more tragic follow up Second Manassas (Second Bull Run, August 28 - 30, 1862). The grounds around it were fought over in both battles and several artillery shells are still lodged in its walls. While it sits just under a mile away from the main battlefield, it is part of Manassas National Battlefield Park.
Well preserved and photogenic, the Stone House is very easy to visit with its own parking lot outside the main National Park area and a convenient location…too convenient as it turned out. The car light trails from the nearby intersection proved to give off too much light pollution.
I had just taken this shot, only my second of the night, and was in the process of adjusting to another shot due to the light pollution present when a Park Ranger showed up, lights blaring on her patrol car. She chased out two other photographers from the parking lot, but I foolishly hoped she would ignore me. No such luck.
“The park closed an hour ago sir,” she said through her patrol car window. She followed me out of the parking lot, flashing lights still on.
And the Great Conjunction dropped behind a cloud by the time I found another location. And the following nights were full cloud cover. Lucky I got this shot! PhotoPills and StarWalk 2 for planning, and Capture One for post processing.
Selected for FLICKR Explore December 22, 2020, # 81.
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This image was rendered from the same data set that was used for the North America nebula image that was uploaded on 2025-07-09. The difference was that I used synthL in the July image, but I did not use synthL in this image. After studying synthL in situations like the present narrowband image where a dedicated luinance filter is not available, I came to the conclusion that synthL does nothing boost image quality in the same way that luminance does when using a luminance filter as part of an LRGB filter set, and processing the luminance master image in a manner that emphasizes sharpness, contrast, and noise reduction. The only way to get a similiar boost in image quality is to accumulate more integration time through the three filters in the SHO or RGB filter set.
Here is a link to the YouTube video that convinced me that synthL does not boost image quality.
Equipment:
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (SHO)
TeleVue NP101is (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Software:
Captured in NINA
Processed in PixInsight
Finished in Affinity Photo
Integration:
SII 13 x 600s = 4:00
Ha 17 x 600s = 5:30
OIII 16 x 600s = 5:30
Total integration: 15:00