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Two years ago in early November I bought my current and first DSLR camera. I had not done any night shooting prior to my coming to the annual lighting of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse's Fresnel Lens. I was a nervous wreck trying to get set up, and a fellow photographer even attempted to sabotage me by telling me to do things that made my shots worse.
I came away that evening with a decent shot, but because I used a high ISO a very grainy shot. Well, it's been two years and they re-lit the lens tonight and I was able to try getting that shot one more time.
I met some wonderful people and got to hang with my friend Paul and even saw another flickr contact I haven't seen in a while.
It was a fantastic evening!
A night by Collins Pool with a tiny island view, under the dazzling rise of the Southern Milky Way and the auroras.
Just as if nature had planned it, the Aurora Australis started to paint the sky in soft waves of pink, red, and yellow.
Most people know the northern lights, but our southern auroras are rarer because of how the Earth’s magnetic field interacts down here. Without as many land masses in the south, it’s a treat we don’t often get to see as brightly in the south. In fact, I didn't even realize the #auroras were that bright until I was already into my 2nd shot of this sky's pano, had I known, I would've used a wider lens...easier to stitch.
The image is a composite, the ground was shot while the moon was out while the sky was captured on the same night after the moon had set.
Sky
Nikon D5500 (fullspectrum mod)
Nikon 50mm f/1.8
Star Adventurer Pro 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
40x20s, f/2.8
Foreground
Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
6 shots in portrait mode at f/4
Back when you could still get this view on North Canal. If you try to get this angle in 2025, you'll be very disappointed.
July 15, 1999.
After getting stuck in traffic on I-20 East, I found myself way further behind the KCS L-BC202-10 than I had wanted to be. Speeding ahead of it on Hwy 164 into Sibley, I made a swift right hand turn, parked it on the bridge, and took the shot. I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. The engineer has the three GPs in throttle as they enter Sibley, Louisiana with 31 cars of interchange traffic for the Louisiana Southern in Minden.
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for its crimson-colored hoodoos, or spire-shaped rock formations. The park’s main road leads past the expansive Bryce Amphitheater, a hoodoo-filled depression lying below the Rim Trail hiking path. It has overlooks at Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, Inspiration Point and Bryce Point. Prime viewing times are around sunup and sundown.
Located between Dead Horse Point and Island in the Sky, Marlboro Point looks out on two joined rock prominences and Shafer Canyon, with the Needles District of Canyonlands and Abajo Mountains off in the distance. The sunlit rock is mostly Wingate sandstone, deposited as massive sand dunes around 200 million years ago.
The view from Marlboro point doesn't pick up the warmest light at sunset due to a fairly close canyon rim to the west (right), but does look lovely in the golden hour light, and after sunset (or at sunrise) when clouds light up in warm colors. A storm had moved off in the early afternoon, and by sunset the sky rapidly cleared, so this was the best light I got.
The origin of the name of the point is sketchy- it doesn't appear on any official USGS documents nor is it mentioned in any of the place name sources I found. A photo in a Smithsonian web page suggests this is where the original cigarette ad was filmed, but I've found no support for that (and spent too much time looking at commercials to evaluate the claim). My guess is that someone thought this resembled "Marlboro country" and named it accordingly.
Zabriskie Point is a part of Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence
Southbound B669 crossing Pool Point bridge near Elkhorn City, KY this morning with a pair of CN EMD’s on the point.
The Douse Point Range Lighthouse in Murray River, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Built in 1899 and decommissioned in 1984.
A night hike led me to this view of the sandstone formations at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park. In the gulch the eroded ground was very hard as if packed by a steam roller. The mounds of sandstone are off limits to hiking. So with respect to the land, I snapped some panoramas from the gulch. The moon wasn't due out for another 2.5 to 3 hours, and the wind was picking up. It was getting colder and I was getting hungry.
A 5 shot panorama of the foreground with a 12mm ultra wide lens, and 10 shot panorama of the night sky shot at 28mm (DX) lens. The sky was shot at Mojave National Preserve in April 2017. The main foreground was shot in December 2015. Edited in Lightroom, auto stitched in Microsoft ICE, and layered in Corel Paintshop.
On a clear night in Death Valley a lot of stars appear after twilight. Even in Dec when most of the Milky Way is below the horizon, it's sill visible going across the sky.
Here's a link to my Death Valley Video:
Thanks for viewing.
Tenby Point on a cloudy afternoon. This was taken early afternoon which I am finding a good time for contrasty Black and white conversion. It was humid and things were building up to thunderstorms later in the afternoon. I was using a 6 stop ND filter to get a longer exposure and smooth out the water.
Swanage, Dorset UK.
The Wellington clock tower is a structure that stands on the seafront at Swanage in Dorset, England. It was originally built by the Commissioners for Lighting the West Division of Southwark at the southern end of London Bridge in 1854. It was intended as a memorial to the recently deceased Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, though funds proved insufficient to provide a statue of the man at the top of the tower, as had been originally intended. It housed a clock with four faces that were illuminated from within and a small telegraph office. Within 10 years the structure was overshadowed by the construction of nearby railway structures and became an obstruction to traffic using the bridge. It was disassembled in 1867.
The structure was saved by the Swanage-based contractor George Burt and shipped back to his hometown, without the clock mechanism. He gifted it to fellow contractor Thomas Docwra who erected it in the grounds of his house at Peveril Point. Later owners removed the spire in 1904, though the structure remains a prominent landmark in the town and was granted grade II protection as a listed building in 1952.
Text curtsey of Wikipedia.
On the National Register of Historical Place.This lighthouse is located between the lighthouse at Point Loma in San Diego and Point Conception 50 miles W of Santa Barbara.
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