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Evening Splendor by Irene Becker © All rights reserved
View from Norwegian bird-island Runde
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Cool autumn weather abounds in downtown Danville, as the foliage begins it's beautiful transformation along the banks of the Crawfish River.
Danville, WI.
Autumn 2012
On this wonderfully moody morning at Cannon Beach, the rock stands tall, its majestic form accentuated by the soft, muted light. A simple yet profound sight that invites contemplation and appreciation of nature's tranquil splendor.
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Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, California
As the coastal fog begins to lift, sunbeams break through into the redwood forest.
Explored June 19, 2020
All the different coloured Crabapple trees are blooming now in Ottawa & they look amazing! They really uplift our spirit & soul!
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive." ~ Eleonora Duse
Under the shady roof
Of branching Elm Star-proof,
Follow me,
I will bring you where she sits
Clad in splendor as befits
Her deity.
Such a rural Queen
All Arcadia hath not seen.
John Milton
A FINAL WORD FROM LAX
all the past is present
and all the future present
all is present
in this present
(moment)
this present moment
present moment
present moment
all is present
in the moment
of this present
moment
in this moment
all this moment
all is present
all the past
and all the present
all is present
in this moment
-pp. 46-47, Tertium Quid by Robert Lax, Stride Publications, 2005
The Great Smoky Mountains are an absolute splendor. Captured at overlook right outside of Gatlinburg, TN.
Large panoramic stitched from 20+ images.
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Imagine taking the trail on the left up to the top, with the scene of the sunset on the right and the rock face on the left. Now you can see the splendor and beauty of Death Valley at sunset. I'm counting the days until our next visit to this magnificent national park. I took this photo on our visit to Death Valley National Park in 2016.
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The Creux du Van is a natural rocky amphitheater, located in the north-western part of Switzerland, that was formed by glacial erosion. It is approximately 1,400 metres wide and 150 metres deep.
During a short break in the November clouds, I went with my buddy benjaminbarakat to the Creux du Van and captured the splendor of the winter sky.
Mars, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Heart and Soul Nebulas, the Double Cluster, the California Nebula, the Pleiades, the Orion Complex and the Rosette Nebula are just a few of the deep sky objects visible in this image... Each of them is reason enough to stay out all night.
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Canon EOS 6D, astro modified
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
4 panel panorama, each a stack of 6 x 60s @ ISO3200
Foreground:
2 panel panorama, each a stack of 6 x 60s @ ISO6400
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Such a serene morning in Seychelles, Felicity Island. Here for my honeymoon but couldn't help myself to step out a few mornings. I usually want some type of dynamic light in the scene but the sun is rising behind the island. At least we have a moon! Ha!
A favorite place of mine in the French Pete Wilderness on the west slope of the Oregon Cascades. I had given a fellow photographer directions so he could find this beautiful little spot, but since it is so well hidden he could still not locate it. So I met up with him yesterday and brought him to see this lush and tranquil hidden gem.
Splendor: The condition of being magnificent, impressive or brilliant.
When we first scoped out this spot, Brad McGinley and I were amazed at the opportunities. Fall color, Sneffles majesty, creeks, ponds, serpentine rail fence, and horses…..many horses! We were in awe as we gazed out at this scene.
According to our guide, Susan Humphrey, the area known to locals as Willow Swamp will be impassable in a just a month blanketed by snow throughout the winter, but on this day it humbled and awed the three travelers who crossed its path.
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This is my favorite region to shoot in the entire night sky. Where else can you get such a jaw-dropping splash of red, blue, and yellow-gold nebulosity - and a globular star cluster (M4) thrown in for good measure - all in one frame? And the trails of dark nebulosity confer an impression of motion - as if the colorful fireworks are shooting forward. But the object has always been a bear to process for me, and this image has "technical difficulties," but I will come back to it later and work on improving it.
This is a stack of 52 tracked (not guided) 90-second exposures taken with a stock Fujifilm X-T10 camera and Samyang 135mm f/2 lens at f/2, ISO 1600. The images were stacked in DSS and processed in Astro Pixel Processor (APP) and Photoshop. No calibration frames were applied for this image. I took flat frames but the stacking in DSS yielded a very gray image that was hard to coax any color out of, so I'll have to go back and look at what's going on there. Fortunately, APP is very good at removing gradients and vignetting, so flat frames are not really needed - for this setup anyway.
There was a lot of smoke in the air from nearby controlled burns, which I think cut down the transparency. I had to exclude a number of the early exposures because the stars were massively bloated due to light scattering by the smoke. The camera was mounted on an Orion Sirius EQ-G equatorial mount, which provided the tracking.
I am always astonished by how much detail I can capture under good conditions from the flight deck of an airliner in cruise.
This image shows the splendor of the southern hemisphere sky captured from the flight deck of a Boeing 777-300ER at 35'000 feet over Brazil, during one of my flights to São Paulo in August.
The upper part of the image is dominated by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This irregular barred spiral galaxy was long considered to be gravitationally bound to our Milky Way. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006 (Nitya Kallivayalil et al.), however suggest the LMC may be moving too fast to be orbiting the Milky Way. Even more recent studies (Marius Cautun et al. 2019) on the other hand, found a much larger dark matter mass than expected. They predict this will eventually reverse the moving direction of the LMC and result in a merger with our Milky Way in 1.5 billion years.
In this image, the LMC is flanked on the left side by Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky and on the right side by the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy, whose gravitational bond to our Milky Way is unclear as well.
On lower left of the sky, you can see the Milky Way in the constellation Carina, with the prominent pink Eta Carinae Nebula, several beautiful open star clusters and some dark nebulae. These dark nebulae extend to the Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud Complex in the lower center of the image.
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Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2
Mount: Boeing 777-300ER
Sky:
Stack of 12x 5s @ ISO12800
Foreground:
Single exposure from the sky sequence