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On vacation in Norway in the region of Nordfjordeid I took the chance of extremely low light pollution and did some experiments to take panoramic photos of the Milky Way. Back home I failed in stitching but I detected something interesting on the northlooking pictures: Aurora Borealis!
The We're Here! gang is looking for triangles today.
This is a shamrock plant that my friend Val gave me yeeeeears ago. It continues to bloom!
It was hard to tell if these picture frames had just been thrown into a corner of a room or someone had set them up like this
As I was shooting aurora last night I tried to light the foreground with a flashlight and must have caught the lens with the flash....that created an effect that looked like what was previously called a proton arc and is now known as Steve.
2-3 weeks ago there was an electrical fire near us when a high tension wire cam in contact with a tree. The top half of this 25m high tree turned to coal and split from the trunk exposing a large bee hive. A large number of bees have since then taken over our yard, threatening anybody who dares to show up.
When I saw that the skies were staying clear, I headed out for a bit of night photography -- after all, what else should I have done on the last day of the Jasper Dark Sky Festival? I was pretty happy with my shots while I was there -- and even happier when I got home and realised I'd captured a bit of aurora without even noticing. Truly an accidental aurora!
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It may have been accidental ICM (Intentional Camera Movement), but I like the look.
2 April 2020.
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▶ COVID-19: The statewide shelter-at-home order permits me to take the dog out for short walks. The camera comes with us.
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I had put this DIY diffuser on the flash for the first time and was trying out exposure and flash power adjustment. So in that trial, I took this shot of a lily stamen and surprisingly, almost everything was in place. Moreover, the subject was nicely in focus too.
"Our bodies moved and hardened
Hurting parts of your garden
With no room for a pardon
In a place where no one knows what we have done"
Song illustrations for my graded Unit
ZEISS IKON 531/16
ZEISS OPTON TESSAR 75/3.5
2 exposures of unknown length @ undefined f-stop
Fomapan 100 @ 100 ASA
ADOX RODINAL 1+25 H2O @ 20°C
4'30" AGFA-shake 3x any 30"
scan: Olympus PenF
I was playing ball with the dogs and didn't take a lot of notice when I saw, out of the corner of my eye, some yellow leaves drifting down and settling on the Hawthorn tree I was stood beside. But then I noticed the 'leaves' still moving - and realised it was a flock of about 15 Yellowhammers!
Keeping them in sight (ie, not looking where I was walking) I edged around the clump of ferns that surrounded the tree, trying to find one Yellowhammer that wasn't obscured by twigs. Of course it was Sod's Law that one foot went down a rabbit hole and toppled me over, but when I looked up from my now sitting position I saw this view of the setting sun, which I thought was quite pretty.
I hadn't intended to take this photo.
At the little crossroads I decided to take this left turn, where I normally turn right.
Just out of sight I met a large truck coming in the other direction, so of course I backed, to this little passing place, and waited for him to come past.
As I waited I liked this view, whipped out the camera and snapped a couple of shots. Still no truck. Perhaps he had got stuck.
So I backed a bit more, found a turning place, and went my usual way. And, yes you've guessed it, met the same truck, which had also backed up and taken the alternative route. Wouldn't it have been great if we had repeated the manoeuvre .
But not being a Marx Brothers film, there was a passing place, and we grinned at each other and went our separate ways; me, with a shot in the can.