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Amazing symmetry and balance as this flock of Canada geese sweep under the waning crescent moon in the morning sky.
The crescent moon rising after sunset at The Bungle Bungles (or more correctly, Purnululu National Park) was the perfect way to cap off a day of exploring the amazing rock formations that are found in this remote part of Australia.
I discovered by accident that over the past few days many of my contacts images have not been appearing in my feed, so apologies to those of you I've missed. I'm trying to back track as I can.
An architectural snippet of the Zuidas. A place that is evolving into Amsterdam's prime location for international businesses and modern homes - Zuidas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Un beau lever de soleil automnal oĆ¹ l'astre du jour se retrouve pile-poil derriĆØre la Dame de Fer. Joli spectacle parisien!
When the sun rises next to the Eiffel Tower, and slides just behind it like it was in an iron cage, you are up for a very nice show :)
Obviously Paddy realsies that he should be going with the 'flow' of the strata. Behind looking back at the ridgeline we'd just traversed
Happy Earth Day!
Despite continued vigorous search, astronomers have yet to find another planet like Earth. All around us, we can easily see the unique beauty and qualities of our planet. Yet at the same time, we also witness its abuse through environmental mismanagement and unchecked pollution.
Among the five major types of pollution, I'm passionate about raising awareness of and fighting against light pollution. Here in the Southwest, we have some of the darkest night skies. However, many around the world have never seen the Milky Way. The disappearance of dark skies has impacts beyond stargazing including wildlife safety and energy conservation. Start today and do your part to help control light pollution and preserve our dark skies!
www.darksky.org/5-things-you-can-do-to-protect-the-night-...
For this shot, I chose a night where a 20% moon would be setting right before the Milky Way would be in perfect position over Zion Canyon. I shot the foreground with the moonlight and then shot the night sky shortly after the moon had set (all from the same tripod position). This was essential to be able to bring contrast and light into this dark canyon.
Total lunar eclipse of October 8, 2014 as seen from the Sapphire Mountains in western Montana. A thin haze of clouds made a diffuse halo of scattered light around the Moon. The bright star almost halfway out to the edge to the lower left of the Moon isn't a star ā it's Uranus and a few of its moons. If you look closely you can see the moons as barely detached lumps on the bright, overexposed image of Uranus. Composite of 4 frames at 30 sec and 800 ISO, and one frame at 15 sec and 100 ISO, with Canon 5D and 740mm f/7 (Takahashi FSQ-106N w/ Canon 1.4x EF Extender II).
The night sky provides fascinating patterns and colours. The lighthouse at Grosnez, Jersey is situated in the foreground.
Some water drop photography. This shot was quite unusual, all in a row but the bottom drop was a strange shape!
Almost perfect alignment and symmetry. There are about 25 of those up-squirts in the fountain.
Civic Center, Santa Clara, California.
I took advantage of the New Moon and clear skies, and drove out to Coleyville (southwest of Brisbane) last night for some Milky Way photography. These are panoramas taken with my EOS R and Samyang 24mm f/1.4 lens.
Three of my favorite shots from the planetary alignment on February 20, 2015. Pigeon Point Lighthouse is in the foreground. The advancing fog bank caused the composition to change, with the planets and moon ducking in and out of sight. Finally, it swallowed them all.
Sony A7S, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm, f/2.8, 1 second, ISO12,800
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Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco
Sun flare shooting through the gap of the North Tower.
The photographers and people in the lower left give a sense of scale.
I usually try to line up the moon and Wisconsin's capitol from across Lake Mendota or Monona but a few weeks ago I decided to change it up a bit. I walked to the top of a parking garage near State St and hoped that my calculations for alignment would pan out. They did and I couldn't be happier. The hardest part was finding a proper exposure to balance out the light of the rapidly brightening moon and the dome of the capitol. I've found that the best time to shoot is just after sunset when there is still an ambient glow from the setting sun, helping to balance the two subjects.
One interesting thing about this period (autumn) is that the moon is no longer setting in the west like during the month of June, no, our satellite sets exactly halfway between south and west.
On 28.10.14 this halfway was pretty much mathematically perfect, the moon (phase 36%) was setting south-west shortly after dusk, allowing to observe its slow passage behind the north face of Monviso (3.842 m) exactly during the sunset time.
Here you can see the dorsal of the mountain slightly exposed to the west that takes fire at sunset. As happened during my first visit the previous week, again a crystal clear sky allowed the slanting rays of the setting sun to express themselves in full power, without blocks, deviations or attenuations, that the presence of clouds could generate.
Within a few hours the moon will fall behind the horizon, right between Punta Roma and Punta Udine, allowing the night to get really dark.
This photo, observed at the original high-resolution, allows to see clearly both the crosses on the summit of Monviso and on its secondary peak: the Viso di Vallanta (it's the most geometrically marked part of the ridge, right under the moon) for its form also known as Dado di Viso... in italian "dado" means nut/dice.
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The alignment of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and the Moon was photographed on the evening of December 12, 2021. A Canon 80D and a Canon 8-15 mm f/4L fisheye lens was used to capture the wide angle scene.
Kananaskis Country, AB
There was a Kp6 aurora but not all the data was in alignment for a good show which didn't eventuate. Still nice to be in the mountains photographing the stars. This view is west facing and I did catch some of the Milky Way, faint though it was. The core of the Milky Way comes up in the early hours and I certainly didn't want to wait for it to rise.
This one has grown on me since uploading the other version. Camera rotation long exposure light art.
Editing this image is a story in itself. This photo was taken on an iPhone using the Live mode. In that mode, you have to hold the phone still for about a 3 second video capture, which can then be used to select the best single image or to create blur in moving subjects, among other choices. I saved both the blurred image and the single photo image. Unfortunately, when the blurred image is saved, sharpness is poor outside the moving water and the image is cropped significantly. Here, I was able to layer the blurred image on top of the single image, masking only the moving water. I had to resize the blurred layer carefully to fit the uncropped single image, and move it slightly for alignment, but the result came out fairly nice.
I was up at 4:30 a.m. but did not really go out to the backyard until well after 5:00 (it was 56'ish degrees and windy!). And although I saw that it was overcast, I set up the camera on a tripod anyway, hoping that the sky might clear up before the sunrise "erases" any visible trace of the alignment of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury. But it was not to be. Oh, well...there's still tomorrow.
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