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Last night was amazingly clear showing the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn in alignment high up in the night sky. This is a montage of 2 photos - one of the moon which was very bright and the 2 planets in the correct positions as seen last night.
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.
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.
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!
The alignments of Kerzerho
Erdeven - Morbihan - Bretagne - France
Les menhirs datent du Néolithique.
The menhirs date from the Neolithic period.
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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Milky Way over “The Two Spinsters.”
I took this in Devil’s Garden, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, in May of this year.
This was a single exposure using my www.lowlevellighting.org techniques (a public service website Wayne Pinkston and I have created).
You can find more night photography techniques in my ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, which gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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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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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.
Here's something a little different from my usual colourful self... it's an almost black & white image (95% desaturated) that I captured in February last year... at Vlakstad beach on Norway's Lofoten Islands.
The weather was terrible that morning... in fact... it was snowing heavily in the hours before (and after) this photo was taken... I've never been so cold in my life!
My thoughts were alternating between... "should I go and sit in the car?"... and... "I'm frozen to the bone already, I might as well carry on shooting"!
I'm glad I carried on shooting... I got quite a few nice shots at this beach that morning... and this is one of my favourites.
I love how the shape of the rocks in the foreground complements (and mimics) the snow-covered mountain in the background... and I really love that little swirl of water in the lower left corner.
Finally... after 21 months... this image has seen the light of day! :)
Nikon D800, Nikkor 24 - 70 mm at 24 mm, ISO of 100, aperture of f/22 with a 1/2 second exposure.
The rotating beacon of the Heceta Head Lighthouse, Oregon coast. Built in 1892, it is considered by many to be the most beautiful lighthouse on the western U.S. coast. It’s beam has a range of 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi).
BTW, those two large “stars” near the horizon are Venus and Jupiter — a very close alignment or conjunction (July 3 @ 11:30pm). Venus is the brighter of the two (because it is much closer to the Sun and the Earth), even though it is much smaller than Jupiter.
Image # 2,000 — this image is my 2,000th post on Flickr :)
Exposure TIP: When I posted this yesterday on Instagram, one person asked, “Composite shot to get the light beams like that, Royce, or you have some magic trick?” My answer: All eight beams are there. They rotate together. The shutter speed time determines the width of the beams - too short and the beams are very narrow (not as graphic). Too long and they all connect and blend together (3 to 4 seconds worked best for this lighthouse). F-stop and ISO determine the strength or brightness of the beams.
I did make one underexposure (1 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200) of the lighthouse in order to get some detail in the glass panels. I then copied and pasted just that area onto the final image (via Photoshop layers @ 30% opacity). Without this composite addition, there would be no detail in that very bright area of the lighthouse.
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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