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McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (msn47733/862) Banking on short final to align with (at the time) runway 18 at DCA
Full moon night. But moonrise about two hours after sunset. So just enough time to capture some stars. Guess the glow on the horizon is left over from sunset. Amazing how long it takes to completely disappear. Probably longer than two hours. Of course it would be nice to think it's the Aurora Australis. I doubt that.
Processing technique:
9x 15s ISO640 14mm F2.8 images.
1. Open as layers in PS
2. Mask out the land and copy mask to all;
3. Group into "sky" group;
4. Duplicate that group and make a "land" group;
5. Auto align the nine images in the sky group;
6. Delete all the masks in the sky group;
7. Convert to smart object;
8. Blend-mode Median;
Now do the land group: invert the masks and do same as above.
Finish by blending the two groups together.
Merci de bien vouloir signer la pétition contre le nouveau nom de région.
Au lieu de Roussillon, nous serions englobés dans le nom d'Occitanie.
Cela revient à nier l'identité Catalane.
Merci pour votre soutien !
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While daylight-scouting foregrounds for a Milky Way panorama in Joshua Tree National Park, I went to a famous spot, trying make up my mind whether to try my take of it or not. Unsurprisingly, it was crowded by tourists, photographers and two instagrammers who obviously owned the place. I didn’t even check my planning app, as I knew how the Milky Way would align from countless images on social media. After watching the freak show for a while, I moved on, still unsure if I was willing to return for a night shot.
A short distance away, I was alone again. Glad to have escaped the zoo at the overcrowded spot, I took a deep breath and glanced around. There was nice looking group of rocks with some scattered Yuccas and bushes in the foreground. This peaceful scene immediately made me stop. If I was not completely mistaken, the Milky Way would nicely align here. A quick check of my planning app confirmed my suspicion and I knew that I just had found the place for my Milky Way panorama.
EXIF
Canon EOS R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
iOptron Skytracker Pro
IDAS NBZ filter
Sky:
Panorama of 6 panels, each a stack of 5x 45s @ ISO1600, f/2, unfiltered & 3x105s @ ISO6400, f/2, filtered
Foreground:
Panorama of 7 panels, each 6s @ ISO400, f/11, during blue hour
Another frame from a perfectly aligned wave. I can't wait for the sun to move back along the horizon.
This nice hoverfly (not wasp) went astray from the flowers right into my open photography bag (charging cable). I gently guided it outside, so that it didn't get caught in there.
The lower right triangle has a right angle and the hoverfly is almost forming a 180 degree angle with the cable.
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Admin´s Choice of the Month in the group The Fragile Touch in November and December 2019
Cover photo of the group SoloReflex in November/December 2019
NMWA had quite the lashup heading west on October 7th- painted B40-8 5968 led the train, which in itself is an uncommon leader. To keep with the corporate blue theme, two blue geeps 326 and 511 trailed, and fourth out was LTEX 1524, the Maine Switching Services MP15 that usually resides at Old Town, hitching a ride west for service. With a beautiful sun hole breaking through the clouds, the power is notched up on the grade at Carmel with a train of 66x9 in tow.
I've been exploring the coastal areas around Wellington, New Zealand to find interesting compositions to photograph under the night sky. Earlier this month I came across this rock pool which aligned perfectly with the rising Milky Way. Access to the pool over the rocks was difficult, but it was worth the effort to set this shot up.
A 150° panorama of the Northern Lights in a classic arc across the north, with curtains stretching up along magnetic field lines, from lower greens and yellows up to reds and magentas. This was the night of September 2, 2016, from near home in southern Alberta. The Big Dipper is at upper left. The bright star reflected is Capella. The Andromeda Galaxy is at upper right.
This is a stitch of 6 segments, each 2-second exposures with the 20mm Sigma Art lens at f/1.6 and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. Despite the short exposures, the aurora moved enough, and obscuring stars, that even PTGui had a tough time finding and aligning on stars. Camera Raw and Photoshop utterly failed. PTGui required manual intervention to select matching alignment points in adjacent frames.
Doug Harrop Photography • Emory, Utah • February 19, 1978
Essay courtesy Mark W. Hemphill . . .
Doug’s “Kansas City” coal trains were symboled RIUE or a URUE. These trains loaded on the Utah Railway, at Mohrland, Wattis, and Hiawatha, and were destined to Union Electric generating stations in Missouri via the Rock Island or the Frisco. The “Kansas City” referred to UP hand-off to the delivering carrier, which occurred at Kansas City.
The RIUE went to Union Electric’s four-unit, 2,400-MW Labadie Power Plant, west of St. Louis on the Missouri River’s south bank. Union built Labadie in the early 1970s to burn Illinois Basin coal. Because that was high-sulfur coal, in the late 1970s the power plant began blending Western low-sulfur coal to comply with the Clean Air Act, which in 1977 began limiting sulfur dioxide emissions. The RIUE’s routing was Utah-UP-Rock Island, via Kansas City. Rock Island’s route across Missouri was nearly air-line, but in poor condition. After the Rock Island’s 1980 bankruptcy, the routing changed to Utah-UP-Missouri Pacific to St. Louis, then westward on a stub of the Rock Island to Labadie, purchased by the Cotton Belt. The RIUE’s empty return train was symboled RIUW.
From about May 1978 to July 1979, the Labadie Power Plant set used 70-ton Rock Island hoppers painted blue in the new “ROCK” scheme. This trainset also ran via UP from Provo to Kansas City.
The URUE went to Union Electric’s two-unit, 1,250-MW Rush Island Power Plant, 47 miles south of St. Louis on the Mississippi River’s west bank. Union built in the mid-1970s to burn Illinois Basin coal. Similarly, in 1977 it had to begin blending Western low-sulfur coal to comply with new CAA regulations. The URUE’s routing was Utah-UP-Frisco, via Kansas City. The Frisco route was circuitous via Springfield, in southwest Missouri. Its empty return train symbol was URUW.
UP’s unit train symbols at that time were not uniform. Most were four-letter symbols, some were three. Coal train symbols ended in UE or UW, UE standing for Unit East and UW standing for Unit West, regardless of which direction the train was loaded or empty. For most trains, the first one or two letters attempted to designate the coal’s consignee, e.g., KUW for Kaiser Unit West, from the D&RGW at Sunnyside, Utah, to Kaiser Steel at Fontana, California. For consignees with multiple power plants with UP unit trains – Union Electric had five – that methodology didn’t fully align. One could surmise that the RI in RIUE stood for Rock Island, and the UR in URUE stood for Union Electric-Rush Island.
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Paris - Jardin des Tuileries - Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel -
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
General information
Type: Triumphal arch
Location: Paris, France
Construction started: 1806
Completed: 1808
Design and construction
Architect Charles Percier, Pierre François Léonard Fontaine
Not to be confused with Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile.
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (pronounced: [aʁk də tʁijɔ̃f dy kaʁusɛl]) is a triumphal arch in Paris, located in the Place du Carrousel. It was built between 1806 and 1808 to commemorate Napoleon's military victories of the previous year. The more famous Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile, across from the Champs Élysées, was designed in the same year; it is about twice the size and was not completed until 1836.
History
Designed by Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, the arch was built between 1806 and 1808 by the Emperor Napoleon I, on the model of the Arch of Constantine (312 AD) in Rome, as a gateway of the Tuileries Palace, the Imperial residence. The destruction of the Tuileries Palace during the Paris Commune in 1871, allowed an unobstructed view west towards the more famous Arc de Triomphe.
It was originally surmounted by the famous horses of Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, which had been captured in 1798 by Napoleon. In 1815, following the Battle of Waterloo and the Bourbon restoration, France ceded the quadriga to the Austrian empire which had annexed Venice under the terms of the Congress of Vienna. The Austrians immediately returned the statuary to Venice. The horses of Saint Mark were replaced in 1828 by a quadriga sculpted by Baron François Joseph Bosio, depicting Peace riding in a triumphal chariot led by gilded Victories on both sides. The composition commemorates the Restoration of the Bourbons following Napoleon's downfall.
The Arc du Carrousel inspired the design of Marble Arch, constructed in London between 1826 and 1833.
Geography
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is at the eastern end of Paris Axe historique ("historic axis"), a nine-kilometre-long linear route which dominates much of the northwestern quadrant of the city. It is, in effect, the backbone of the Right Bank.
Looking west, the arch is perfectly aligned with the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, the centerline of the grand boulevard Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe at the Place de l'Étoile, and, although it is not directly visible from the Place du Carrousel, the Grande Arche de la Défense. Thus, the axis begins and ends with an arch. When the Arc du Carrousel was built, however, an observer in the Place du Carrousel was impeded from any view westward. The central part of the Palais des Tuileries intervened to block the line of sight to the west. When the Tuileries was burned down during the Paris Commune in 1871, and its ruins were swept away, the great axis, as it presently exists, was opened all the way to the Place du Carrousel and the Louvre.
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Nugget Point Lighthouse, New Zealand
On the first day we landed on south island of New Zealand, we rent a car and drove to Nugget Point Lighthouse right way. It took us about 6 hours to get there. Unfortunately when we got there, it was little bit late for shooting sunset. So, we just find a camera spot and prepared for night shooting. According to the plan, milky way center would come out around 9:00 pm and it would be in a perfect position to align with the lighthouse. So we were sitting in the car and took a little nap. When it was 8:00 pm, we got out the car and found clouds above our head. We ran to our camera spot quickly and hope we could still capture some night pictures. At the moment, the clouds was moving fast. Some time we can see milky way and some time we didn't. So, we just kept shooting until 11:00 pm. Since we also planed to drive to Takapo Lake before dawn, we had to go.
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The Jahangir Mahal (राय प्रवीन महल). Orchha (ओरछा), Bundelkhand region (बुन्देलखण्ड). Madhya Pradesh (मध्य प्रदेश), India/Bharat (भारत).
25°21′N 78°8′E
The nave and rood screen.
Frankly, I’d rather the cathedral didn’t have a large section bathed in garish purple light. It would, imo, be preferable to light it in such a way so as to appear “natural”, more closely aligned with what parishioners would have encountered before the advent of electricity. But that’s just me.
In the early 20th century, the indigent and anonymous dead were buried here in the county plot at historic Vale Cemetery in Schenectady, N.Y. Most of the stones bear their names.
View of the Victorian brownstone row houses of the Back Bay neighborhood. Photo taken from the Skywalk Observatory at the Prudential Center.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The San Rafael & Bay Bridge - San Rafael, California
This morning I woke up and headed out for sunrise, with no real direction. I figured I would just follow the clearing storm and light until I found something interesting.
I made a quick stop up in the Marin Headlands, but nothing really grabbed my attention. I was thinking of heading into the San Francisco and over to the industrial area on the south / east end, but decided I would make a trip over to this spot. I came across this composition back in late November, but I didn't have a long enough lens to compose the image how I would have liked, so I left it alone for the time being. Finally, after over a year of being stuck in the 105mm or less range, I decided to pick up a 70-200 zoom. So with the 70-200, and no real direction, I came over to this cove and waited for sunrise.
View my stream on black here
Canon 5D MarkII
70-200 f/4L
Exposure: 210
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal Length: 163 mm
ISO Speed: 50
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Sometimes all the elements align; a hint of morning light on the peaks, a little fog hanging in the meadow, and two beautiful bull moose who just shed their velvet....have a great weekend!!
USA, Nevada, Clark County, Gold Butte National Monument. Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter aligned with the Milky Way in the Background across a rainbow night sky.