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Cosmic Continent Sequel
Several years ago I captured this beautiful region of Sky and called it “The Cosmic Continent”, here is my latest version a very wide view of The North America Nebula otherwise known as NGC7000 using data from Grand Mesa Observatory’s System 1a the William Optics Redcat together with a QHY16200A Monochrome CCD, this combination is giving a field of view of approximately 6 x 5 degrees.
Captured over 3 nights in May and June 2020 for a total acquisition time of 7 hours.
(stay tuned for the hubble palette version)
The William Optics Redcat with QHY16200A and its 7 position filter wheel is now available at Grand Mesa Observatory for subscription, see here for details.
grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
View this image in high resolution on Astrobin
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus that resembles the shape of North America and The Gulf Of Mexico. It lies at a distance of approximately 1800 light years away from us.
This image contains some very interesting areas such as The Cygnus Wall which is representative of Mexico and Central America, the nearby emission objects Pelican Nebula (IC5070) and the faint emission nebula IC5068
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
May 5th, 25th, June 8th
HA 240 min 24 x 900 sec
LRGB 180 min 9 x 300 sec
Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY16200A
Gain 0, Offset 130 Calibrated with Flat, Dark and Bias Frames.
Optics: William Optics Redcat 51 APO @ F4.9
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processing in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop CC
A friend told me when I moved to Texas that it was nothing but miles and miles of nothing for miles and miles. Boy was he right! When you drive across Texas, once you're out of the cities, you mostly see ranch land or farm land. There are some interesting spots, but it takes bloody forever to get to them. This corn field with the elevator in the distance pretty much sums up the situation and was taken on the drive out of the pan handle. I do like the minimalism quality to it. Dumas, Texas, USA, July 2020
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Working weekend/ Social Distancing Day 125, 07/18/2020, East Hampton, NY
Apple iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 7 Plus back dual camera 3.99mm f/1.8
ƒ/1.8 4.0 mm 1/120 40
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While at Echo Amphitheater in Abiquiú, I shot some infrared.
I've tended to process my infrareds to black and white as I never felt satisfied with my attempts at false color processing with channel swapping.
I've been learning more this past year about working with color prior to converting to black and white.
In the first comment box below is the unedited shot, pretty much all brown. Shot through the Hoya R72, 720 nm filter. The custom white balance that I had set keeps it from being totally magenta.
As has been my common result, using the Channel Mixer adjustment layer and swapping values for the red and blue channels wasn't great.
I've been learning what the Selective Color adjustment layer does, so opened that under the Channel Mixer layer.
It allowed me to play with how much red, yellow, green, blue, cyan and magenta are within colors and thereby fine tune what the Channel Mixer does.
Things were better.
Then I opened a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer above Channel Mixer and found that playing with the Master and moving the Hue slider helped too.
After working on tonal ranges, using midtone luminosity masks on curves layers and dodging and burning, I still didn't like how much purple was in the sky.
I tried the Select Color command to isolate the sky and that created a mask when I opened the Color Balance adjustment layer. Mostly working on shadows and midtones to reduce red, increase blue and increase green got the deep blue color.
I've been learning about the Hard Mix blend mode, and after using the color picker to grab the color of the trees, I opened a Color Fill adjustment layer, set it to Hard Mix and then reduced the Fill opacity to 7%. This enhanced the tree color.
Finally, I got a false color infrared that actually had definite color.
Why did I do all this?
This extreme edit became the underlying base to a black and white version of the shot. All the color stuff I've been learning was part of tutorials on processing for BW.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, I hope to post that on Thursday for Donnerstagsmonochrom.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
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Open your eyes child
Your very soul is at stake.
The price has been paid
There is no more time to waste.
Quit treating your life as if it's a game.
Like you can call time out or sit on the sidelines until you're ready to tell coach,
"ok, I'm ready. Put me back in the game."
I know life can seem like scenes from a long dramatic movie
but my salvation provides you with the director's cut.
But you can't continue to live your life
With your Eyes. Wide. Shut.
Poem by KPayrick21
From a visit to Newcastle's Colisseum - Antiques & Collectables. Taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 5.8cm f2 (Red T) wide open, extended.
A double exposure experimenting with a new lens, the ultra wide Rokinon 12mm F2. This is the first time I've had something this wide before. I can't wait to get in the mountains with this thing.
A very wide and colorful doodle..576 x 4608 @ 72 dpi..Free for personal usage only. Download and enjoy!
I'll be posting more images from my time with the Otter and Heron, but for now here's two very contrasting images of a female Kingfisher...
This time a wide angle image showing the Kingfisher's habitat. Anyone who has been following my photography will know I really like images like this that show the environment, as I think it tells more of a story of the subject. Portrait images with blurred backgrounds still very much have their place, but in combination it builds a varied portfolio. In my eyes at least!
This image was taken remotely using a CamRanger - I was able to control the focus and settings from a hide using my iPad.
Saint Flour le 15 Juillet 2014, nous sommes un mardi.
Fin de matinée. Un soleil dru mais la fraîcheur d'une altitude.
Des pierres massives dessinent des maisons toutes aussi massives.
Le Cantal nous surprend et nous prend.
Il faut ouvrir grand ses yeux, car nous ressentons souvent en traversant la France, l'humeur de ces villes et villages qui se sont figés dans le temps...
De plus en plus des signes forts nous indiquent l'achèvement d'un temps.
La ville est pourtant grande, animée ....
Mais dans ses rues et ruelles, tellement de boutiques anciennes aux devantures encore riches d'une histoire, sont comme pétrifiées, mortifiées, surannées et ... closes dans la poussière sous une lumière photographiques pour les touristes de passage.
Subsistent encore certaines. Celles ci sont alors un appel à notre histoire.
Nos enfances.
Nos 1ers achats en colonies de vacances ou, pour d'autres,
avec les mains serrées dans celles de leurs parents et qui ouvraient grandes leurs portes pour nous acheter notre premier couteau. ...
Avec la Chris, toujours souriante devant tout cela,
main dans la main, toujours,
nous avons acheté notre fromage à un fermier ambulant et,
le comble,
j'ai acheté un aiguiseur de couteau ...
Made in China !
Quelques shots et hop on a filé ...
...
Saint Flour July 15, 2014, we are a Tuesday.
Late morning. A thickly sun, but the freshness of altitude.
Massive stone houses draw equally massive.
Cantal surprises us and takes us.
We must open his eyes wide, as we often feel through France,
the mood of these towns and villages that are frozen in time ...
Increasingly strong signs indicate the completion of a time.
The city is still big, bustling ....
But in its streets and alleys, so the old shops storefronts still rich of history are petrified, mortified, and outdated ... closed in the dust.
Some still exist. They will then have a call to our history.
Our childhoods.
Nos1ers shopping camps or for others,
with hands clasped in that of our parents and we who opened their doors to buy us our first knife. ...dropoff Window
With Chris, still smiling at all,
together, forever,
we bought our cheese farmer and a street,
the height,
I bought a knife sharpener ...
Made in China!
Located in the State of Arizona, the Painted Desert, wedged between Petrified Forest National Park, and the Grand Canyon, offers fantastic wide open spaces to view and relish.
a great video to help improve your confidence in street photography:
body language and intention in street photography
ricoh gr : positive film : street
digital tip jar: buy me a coffee
Come pull a sheet over my eyes so I may sleep tonight,
despite what I´ve seen today
I find you guilty of a crime of sleeping at a time
when you should have been wide awake
( Audioslave, Wide Awake )
Dedicated to the Icelandic government!!
Facade of a house in Brihuega (Guadalajara, Spain), decorated during the Lavender Festival 2024.
On the occasion of flowering, several events are organized in the town, including guided tours of the fields, the Lavender Festival, balloon and paragliding flights, cooking classes and technical workshops on the cultivation of aromatic plants, pollinators at risk and similar topics.
Brihuega is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Spain. According to the 2007 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 2,835 inhabitants.
In 1710 a tough battle took place in the municipality between Lord Stanhope's troops and the Franco-Spanish army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715).
The town was also the scene of violent battles during the Battle of Guadalajara in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). (Source: Wikipedia)
Currently it is a beautiful town, worth a visit and enjoy its streets, its fields and its gastronomy.
UNA CASA DE BRIHUEGA, 2024
Fachada de una casa de Brihuega (Guadalajara, España), adornada durante las jornadas del Festival de la Lavanda 2024.
Con motivo de la floración se organizan varios actos en la localidad, entre los que destacan las visitas guiadas a los campos, la Fiesta de la Lavanda, vuelos en globo y parapente, clases de cocina y jornadas técnicas sobre el cultivo de plantas aromáticas, polinizadores en riesgo y temas similares.
Brihuega es un municipio situado en la provincia de Guadalajara, España. Según el censo de 2007 (INE), el municipio tiene una población de 2.835 habitantes.
En 1710 tuvo lugar una dura batalla en el municipio entre las tropas de Lord Stanhope y el ejército franco-español durante la Guerra de Sucesión Española (1701-1715).
La localidad también fue escenario de violentas batallas durante la Batalla de Guadalajara en la Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939). (Fuente: Wikipedia).
Actualmente es un precioso pueblo, merecedor de una visita y disfrutar de sus calles, sus campos y su gastronomía.
I've been wondering for a while how to get wide angle bokeh. Last night went out for a bit of night shooting. Here's downtown Portland, OR reflected in the Willamette River.
Another meandering path, this time the accessible trail to the quarry and visitor center at Halibut Point State Park in Rockport, Massachusetts. The yellows, reds and oranges of the fall foliage are fading, even as much green remains.
As part of the "Heber Train 125" commemoration, Rio Grande caboose No. 01503 was on display near the Heber Valley Railroad depot on Sept. 27, and 28, 2024. 01503 was built by International Car for the D&RGW in October 1966. There are a few minor external accessories remaining to be installed and the interior is undergoing a full restoration to its as original appearance.
You won't see this too often on here but here I am, fotodudenz aka Matthew. Hasselblad Xpan, 30mm lens, new haircut (including receding hairline) and multiple chins in tow. This one's for you Jon!
#Peacock #Indian #Peafowl #IndianPeafowl #Blauer #Pfau #BlauerPfau #Bird #Vogel #Wildpark #Poing #WildparkPoing #Sun #Sunny #Day #Beautiful #Light