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The Sebastian Inlet, where the Atlantic Ocean and The Indian River flow into one another under the inlet bridge in the distance, under the light of the moon.
Brown pelican, milliseconds before plunging into the ocean in an attempt to scoop up a school of fish for lunch
A recent trip to Sebastian State Park. Although the inlet entrance was somewhat calm. Taking a walk into the park produced some activity.
not done. is this an image? earlier today, this was a description, a description of a process, a process that produced a photograph, a photograph that was anti-algorithmic. and now we remove the pixels and are left with the letters, words, sentences, the ideas that are the essence of what the image was intended to communicate. is this the image? done.
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The Waxing Gibbous Moon met the International Space Station, at least that's what it looked like from near the Sebastian Inlet Tuesday night.
A mere 438km away, the Space Station flew across the face of the Moon in just over a half a second (.59, to be exact). This is the first time I've shot stills of a Lunar Transit (aka "spray and pray"), and I managed to capture the ISS in 4 frames, shown here in a 4-shot composite. It was breezy, chilly, and the Moon was quite high in the sky. Considering how much the lens was moving around in the breeze, I was uncertain I'd capture anything, but at least one of the frames is pretty sharp.
Also, I was shooting with the always-talented John Kraus / John Kraus Photos and Marcus Cote / Marcus Cote Photography, both of whom got great shots. Go check them out.
Details:
ISO800, f5.6 and 1/3200 sec, shot with a Canon 7D2 with a 500mm + 1.4x combo.
Transit details (from transit-finder.com):
Tuesday 2019-01-15 20:50:48.50 • Lunar transit
ISS angular size: 63.02″; distance: 438.46 km
Angular separation: 0.0′; azimuth: 227.9°; altitude: 67.6°
Center line distance: 0.03 km; visibility path width: 4.06 km
Transit duration: 0.59 s; transit chord length: 31.7′
R.A.: 03h 02m; Dec: +11° 51′; parallactic angle: -38.4°
ISS velocity: 54.2 ′/s (angular); 6.91 km/s (transverse)
ISS velocity: -2.62 km/s (radial); 7.39 km/s (total);
Direction of motion relative to zenith: -2.3°
Moon angular size: 31.7′; 30.2 times larger than the ISS
Moon phase: 67.9%; angular separation from Sun: 110.9°
Sun altitude: -39.8°; the ISS will be in shadow
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Mar 19, 2015.
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I'm spending the winter months of 2014-2015 in a warm spot on the beach in Indialantic, FL (if I have Internet access, it doesn't matter too much where I'm physically located).
While most of my photos have been taken at sunrise, on the eastern side of the long island/sand-bar that runs from Cape Canaveral down to Port St. Lucie, I thought I should take at least one batch of sunset shots.
So I drove about 20 miles south, down to the Sebastian Inlet State Park, and found a long spit of land that reached out into the Indian River, facing due west.
I mounted my camera on a tripod, and took about 20 3-shot HDR compositions as the sun dropped down to the horizon. But every one of the pictures looked almost the same -- except that most of them were fairly blurry, because the waves were all in slightly different positions as my Photomatix program combined each of the three HDR images.
This is about the only one that looked fairly reasonable.
But at least now you can say that you've seen one sunset shot among all of my sunrise/dawn photos ...
As the sun was about to disappear... sometimes in Florida you can get a real nice sunset... (as well as sunrise)... I never tire of watching it...