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With a shady slide under my belt I felt I needed to get back to some serious sliding - this subject seems to fit quite nicely!! They seem to like the Black Eyed Susan Flowers and were aligned upside down along the stem.
For Sliders Sunday - HSS!
There were no photo, last week. Not that I didn't take any, but I decided to test the Kodak Ektar film. So I won't have them back until I get them developped. Regarding this week, "framed" would probably be a better theme. However this will do! Also, this was the occasion to test my new camera...full frame, at last !!
Thanks for viewing !
Street light, waxing crescent Moon and Venus
Slight distortion due to being hand held and with minimal processing
Alias: Pyrite
Real Name: Holden Ridgewood
Gender: Male
Alignment: Villain
Powers: Having a unique physiology thanks to the experiment that gave him his powers, Holden is able to change into different shapes, both solid and liquid. As a metallic polymorph, he can reshape his limbs into various weapons, and anything else he so desires. Because of this power, he's also able to cling onto the sides of buildings quite easily. Since he's not exactly human anymore, he doesn't require food, water, or oxygen to survive. Even though it's not necessary for his survival, he does it anyway, as some foods are just too tasty to give up! He's very hard to damage due to his body being now made up of metal. Also has an immunity to biological attacks.
Weaknesses: Fire, or Electricity
Backstory: Holden's brother would be sentenced to death as capital punishment, for a crime he truly didn't commit. Since Holden pretty much idolized his brother, he knew this wasn't right. It was the system's fault. A corrupt justice system, that only lives to serve the wealthy elite. As Holden Ridgewood, he gets texts and emails, everyday, blaming him. Saying how he should've seen it coming, and that there's something he could've done to prevent this tragedy. It was at this point, he would go, seeking power to make everything right. He no longer viewed the heroes in the city in a positive light, as they let an innocent man be killed, as well as protecting the corrupt from harm. He would undergo experimentation, which would change him, into something more than human. As Pyrite, he seeks to bring an end to the system that got his brother killed
Status: Part of Capital Punishment, hoping to abolish the current system that got his brother killed.
Not my tidiest work. The Moon was pretty bright and Venus wasn't visible until well into the dawn. I couldn't see Mercury at all, but it's hiding in the sunlight below Venus.
This is the exact "Triple lignment" example with Super Blue Moon 2024.
From this particular Thread & Needle Spot, the Trans-America Pyramid Building Tip can be seen sitting inside the North Tower of Iconic Golden Gate Bridge. According to PlanIt App, there are only 4 times in 10 years that Full Moon cab be appeared to be link with the North Tower of the Bridge. 8/18/2024 was the 1st one in the next 10 years.
We were so lucky to have a clear sky when the supermoon was rising right at sunset. So this image can be taken in one shot with one expose.
Timelapse of this moonrise: youtu.be/XbnnCTpm6cM
This bird spent more than an two hours preening. Aside from hunting / eating, for most birds, preening is the second most frequent and time-consuming activity. Considering the importance of feathers to a bird, this is not surprising. Most birds that spend lots of time in or around water have an uropygial gland, or preen gland, which is located at the base of the tail. This gland has an oily waxy substance that is spread over the feathers by preening. Preening also smoothes out feathers, removes damaged or worn feathers, and removes lice. Birds will often stretch their wings during pruning to help with alignment of feathers. All these acts make for a healthy bird. Feather health, alignment, etc. is important for streamline, efficient flight. The oily, waxy substance protects the feathers, but also repels water, preventing the feathers from becoming waterlogged. This is especially important for diving birds who may need to make immediate flight upon surfacing. Finally, and by no means least important, is that of looking your best for your potential mate, making sure the best DNA mixes with the best DNA, which is best for the species.
Canon R3 RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM @ 500mm
f7.1 1/700 sec - ISO 320
20220610 1145 hrs - Pagan Creek Dyke (Lewes, DE)
A Southern Pacific Brakeman muscles the bridge of the gallows-style, "Armstrong" turntable into perfect alignment as his crew prepares to turn Locomotive #18 in the yard at Laws, California.
This image was made during a March, 2023 photo shoot at the Laws Museum, near Bishop, California, which featured Southern Pacific, Baldwin 10-wheeler #18 on her second visit to the property since the completion of her restoration in 2017.
Another new species for me at the Haga Ocean butterfly house - a male orange-barred sulphur (Phoebis philea) trying to get its probocis into working order befor taking its first flight.
Butterfly probocis isn't a single structure so they need to "zipper" it up before it can use it and this one was working on this while still hanging from the chrysalis it crawled out of.
Sulphurs are unsurprisingly yellow, but this one has orange bars on its wings - but just on the dorsal side. I never saw this one take of so I was unable to get any shots of the dorsal side.
We're being treated to a nice show in the night sky right now! From left to right, Mars, the the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, and Jupiter are all in alignment earlier in the night. Pluto and Saturn are in there too, but Pluto is too small to see, and Saturn is to the left and up from the Lagoon Nebula in the Galactic Center. It was dumb luck that I caught this scene, I was vaguely aware of the planetary alignment happening but I've been so busy with projects and preparing for teaching workshops that I had no idea I was going to capture such a beautiful sight until I was out shooting, so needless to say I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to get this composition of Mars and Jupiter flanking the Galactic Center!
Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm lens @ 14mm, f/2.8. The sky is a star stacked blend of 7 shots for low noise and pinpoint stars, stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for macOS, but you can do this in Sequator for Windows (or other programs but those are the easiest for star stacking landscape astro images). The 7 shots were each at ISO 6400, 10 seconds. The foreground is from a 20 second shot taken less than 2 minutes before I took the exposures for the sky. The tide was going out and on the mudflats it goes out really fast, so the 20 second shot had more water in the foreground on the mudflats, so the reflection of the stars was better, and it was also a sharp reflection since the star stacking was just for the sky, so the star reflections in the water were not aligned with each other and thus blurred in the stacking. I could have done a separate stack for the water in Starry Landscape Stacker to line up the reflections and get low noise, but the 20 second shot had more water and a better reflection. I aligned the foreground star reflections with the reflections of the star stacked image in Photoshop, and masked in the foreground. Noise reduction in Lightroom (before sending the foreground to Photoshop) and Adobe Camera Raw (in Photoshop, which is the same underlying raw editor as Lightroom) was used to reduce the noise on the water.
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Planetary alignment in the dawn of June 24, 2022. Mercury (as expected) is lost in the twilight (even if, with a lot of imagination and a little good will, one might see a tiny dot of light in the right place in the original RAW files), the rest of the planets are visible "in the correct order", i.e. corresponding to the actual distance from the Sun. The Moon (with visible Earthsine!) represents the Earth-Moon-system in this row: Mercury (Merkur) - Venus - Moon (Mond) - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn.
CURIOUS ALIGNMENTS (C)
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That time of year when the sun sets perfectly behind Wembley Stadium from my favourite vantage point across Brent Reservoir. One of those sunsets that just kept getting better
Perfect alignment on the forest floor in two fallen maple leaves in the rain and wind of an October morning. Monora Park, Orangeville, Ontario.
Another visit to Torbay and so I couldn't help myself but to go for another Alignment shot. This time, I got lucky with a thin slot or sky on the horizon (and not coming a cropper on the rock face I had to clamber across and perch on to get this).
Balanced rock work by John Ceprano, Remic Rapids, Ottawa. Koni-Omega Rapid, Wide Omegon 58mm f5.6, Rollei IR400 with Hoya R72 filter. D76 1:2 15.5min at 20C
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus lining up in the evening sky above the Tihany peninsula (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The two brightest objects in the night sky appear side by side in front of the milky way in a rare alignment. Venus is the blue object, and the yellow object is the moon. Even though the moon was only an 8% crescent, it was brighter than Venus. The band of yellow along the horizon is from the last colors of twilight before it was completely dark. This incredible sky is framed over the Colorado River in Utah. The 2000 foot deep canyon is part of Canyonlands National Park. But this view was actually shot from the edge of a cliff at Dead Horse Point State Park.
To get this shot I combined 2 exposures. The canyon was shot at 8 minutes, f/4, iso 1600. The sky was a 4 minute, f/5.6, iso 1600 exposure. I used an iOptron Skytracker to track the stars for a longer exposure.
A beautiful area of emission and reflection nebula in Monoceros, featuring, surrounding NGC2264:
- The Christmas Tree cluster
- The Fox Fur nebula
- The Monkey Face nebula
- Cone nebula
This image has been built with data from 28/12/14, 10/12/17 and 16/11/18. The total integration time is 15 hours.
Camera: QHY23 mono CCD
Scope: Takahashi E130D
Focal length: 430mm f/3.3
Exposures:
H-alpha (49 x 600s bin1)
O-iii (8 x 600s bin2)
S-ii (8 x 600s bin2)
Red, Green, Blue (18 x 300s bin2) per filter
The data files were calibrated (bias, dark, flat) and stacked in PixInsight using drizzle alignment/stacking and Windsorized-Sigma-Clipping with upper and lower range rejection as well as large-scale structure clipping. This latter parameter allowed the different data sets taken over 3 years to be merged without too many seams and missing areas of data where the camera/scope orientation was different.
The image was then built in Photoshop with the following layers:
Red channel: Red+H-alpha+Sii
Green channel: Green + Oiii
Blue channel: Blue + Oiii
A narrowband Hubble Palette image was built with Sii-Ha-Oiii layers to merge with the final colour image.
H-alpha, Sii and Oiii were also blended to form a master Luminosity layer.
Star colours were retained by blending a low-enhanced colour layer of the stars only on to the final image.
All data was taken from Cumbria (UK) on 3 nights between 2014 and 2018.