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White, red, and now yellow and GitD opaque make a nice little team. It would be awesome to find a torso, they're surely out there.
Litchfield National Park, covering approximately 1500 km2, is near the township of Batchelor, 100 km south-west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Each year the park attracts over 260,000 visitors.
Proclaimed a national park in 1986, it is named after Frederick Henry Litchfield, a Territory pioneer, who explored areas of the Northern Territory from Escape Cliffs in Van Diemen Gulf to the Daly River in 1864.
Flora
The Central sandstone plateau supports rich woodland flora communities dominated by species including Darwin woolybutt and Darwin stringybark, as well as banksias, grevilleas, terminalias and a wide variety of other woodland species.
Remnant pockets of monsoon rainforest thrive along the bottom of the escarpment, and in the deep narrow gorges created over thousands of years by the force of the waterfalls cutting into the escarpment walls.
They are significant because of their size and lack of disturbance. Here visitors will find lilies and slender ground orchids growing among Pandanus, paperbark and swamp bloodwoods.
Fauna
Common wildlife species include the antilopine kangaroo, agile wallaby, sugar glider, northern brushtail possum, fawn antechinus, black and little red flying foxes and the dingo. The caves near Tolmer Falls are home to a colony of the rare orange leaf-nosed bat and the ghost bat.
Litchfield is a habitat for hundreds of native bird species. Black kites, and other birds of prey are common during the dry season. The yellow oriole, figbird, Pacific koel, spangled drongo, dollarbird and the rainbow bee-eater inhabit the sheltered areas close to waterfalls. A species of marsupial mouse (the northern dibbler), the rufous-tailed bush-hen, a frog (the pealing chirper) and the primitive archerfish, occur in the Wangi Falls area.
Wangi, Tolmer and Florence falls and Buley Rockhole, are popular with visitors and tour groups. The falls have large pools that attract birds and reptiles such as monitors. orange-footed scrubfowl, honeyeaters, figbirds and Torres Strait pigeons share the fruit and berries in the areas with nocturnal mammals like the northern quoll, northern brown bandicoot and northern brushtail possum. Frill-necked lizard are common throughout the park, but will not be seen as frequently during the cool dry season months. The Finniss River area also hosts a number of large saltwater crocodiles, commonly abbreviated as "salties".
The magnetic termite mounds are a popular tourist attraction. These wedge-shaped mounds are aligned in a north-south direction as a response to the environment. The termites which build them feed on grass roots and other plant debris found in plains which are seasonally flooded. Therefore, the termites are forced to remain above the water, in the mound. The alignment of the mound acts as a temperature regulator, and allows the temperature to remain stable.
With the Sun having risen in all its glory, an interesting play of light and shadow sets up across the vast, perfectly flat expanse of a flooded Badwater. Before us, the more than two mile high wall of the Panamint Range abruptly rises on the western side from alluvial fans to sheer mountain cliffs coated by recent snow. 11,049 foot tall Telescope Peak takes center stage here glistening in the sun. And a comparatively very short distance behind this photographer the Black Mountains rise even more abruptly more than a mile high. While the Sun has traveled all the way down the face of the Panamints, the vast saltwater lake here remains in shadow from the Black Mountains. As a result the salty water is reflecting nothing but deep blue sky and the salty ridges that stick up remain dark. By chance I found myself presented with an uncanny alignment of a salt ridge that very closely echoes the profile of the Panamint Mountain reflection. The dark, shadowed salty mud traces the contour pretty well, complete with a dip to account for Telescope Peak's tallest reflection.
Those that are succeeding and are thrilled and joyful in the unfolding will often tell you, "I've dreamed this since I was little. I imagined it, I pretended it, I used to practice with the hairbrush pretending it was a microphone." Purity is the alignment of energy. Doesn't matter what anybody else thinks about anything. It only matters what you think about it.
maar dit is die van vandaag
I have been telling my wife that this particular rock with a single mortar at Vargas Plateau must have been special to the Natives in the past. From here, it aligns with the California oak that I posted yesterday and all the way to Mission Peak. This must have served as an observation post because it has a command view of the Bay.
I find it easy to imagine the people building this church, which was finished in 1903, using the line of the rising Milky Way to set the angle for their little building’s roof gable. There wouldn’t have been as much man-made dust in the air nor light pollution to dim their view back then, giving the locals an unobstructed vista of the heavens on a cloudless night.
Mind you the air was clear and the night quite dark when I visited the small sanctuary in April of 2019, evidenced by how much of the fine details in the Milky Way’s dust lanes my photo has captured. The colours of a number of the nebulae in the star-forming region of Rho Ophiuchi have also shown up nicely in the photo. Not visible in the photo, and certainly lost to my eyes on the night, is the cap for one of my lenses, dropped as I was stumbling through the darkness, looking for an interesting composition to shoot. Perhaps if I make the 400+ kilometre round-trip back there one day, I might find my piece of protective plastic still laying in the grass.
I used nine separate overlapping photos to create this composite “vertical panorama” image. My Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, fitted with a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f/1.8, using an exposure time of 6.0 seconds @ ISO 6400, did a splendid job of sucking as much light out of the sky as possible to record each of those nine frames.
12 3/8” x 12 1/4” x 2 3/4”
Mixed Media: Acrylic layered
painting stained and distressed.
Cut and Paste Collage, House
Paint, Oil Based Wood stain
& aged w/ a liquefied rust
Light dusting of snow on top of the leaf litter serves to emphasise the undulations of the ground. Begs the question, what lies underneath to cause these depressions in the first place...
Venus, Mars, and the crescent moon align with Pigeon Point Lighthouse on the California coast.
Single exposure with only Lightroom adjustments
Sony A7S, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8 @f/2.8, 200mm, 1 second, ISO12,800
More info, for the truly geeky:
I knew this alignment was coming several weeks ago and put a reminder on my calendar for the afternoon to come up with a shot for it. I knew that the planets and moon were going to be roughly 260-270 degrees as they approached the horizon and started looking at westerly foregrounds. Since the sun was well down by the time the planets and moon were going to be close to the horizon, I knew that the foreground either had to be a very strong silhouette or self-lit (like the GG Bridge, city skyline, etc). There was a possible shot from Treasure Island of the South Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but I just didn't want to drive into the city yesterday, so kept looking.
I found that the alignment matched very well with typical shooting locations for Pigeon Point Lighthouse. I like the lighthouse, but it presents some pretty daunting challenges; fog, sea spray, moisture in the air, and the very bright lights from the hostel and the beacon itself. Nevertheless, I set out for the lighthouse around 5:00pm to give myself enough time
I knew I was going to be at 200mm (or more) for the shot, which means that I would need to keep the shutter duration at 2 seconds or less to avoid streaking the planets, stars, and surface of the moon. This requires a pretty high ISO (12,800 or more) at f/2.8 (and even higher at f/4) to be able to preserve any detail in the foreground. I decided to keep my 70-200 f/2.8 instead of adding the extender to give it more reach, but at the loss of a stop of light.
I took a bunch of test shots as the planets and moon were setting and the sky got darker and darker as the sun got further below the horizon. I settled on exposure brackets centered around 0.5s at f/2.8. Shooting 5 shots at 1eV steps, this gave me exposures from 2s down to 1/4s. I ended up using the 1s exposure. All at ISO12,800.
The moon is incredibly challenging, even when in crescent phase. The sunlit portion is WAY too many stops above anything else in the sky and on the ground. I decided to let the sunlit crescent blow out and went for details in the earthshine portion of the moon. By making this decision, I was able to use a single exposure to make the image. There is a lot of highlight and shadow recovery going on here, but the Sony A7S image holds up pretty well. There is noise, of course, but it is very well behaved.
I believe that this image would not be possible without the A7S. Keeping the stars and planets from streaking at 200mm requires very short shutter durations. This requires bumping up the ISO to 12,800 or even 25,600. The ISO performance and Dynamic Range of the sensor at these ISOs allows long-lens astro-landscape photography to become a reality (without compositing)
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When you meet someone whose spirit is not aligned with yours.....
send them love and move along.
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Twice a year, the sunset aligns with Toronto's east/west streets. This is the winter Torontohenge for 2018, taken from a vantage point above Queen St.
Kohler-Andrae State Park (WI)
Big news!
I've been overwhelmed with the amount of encouragement and support I've gotten from all of you lovely photography viewers over the years. Many of you told me "Brent, I want a way to support your little passion project, but I don't have the wall space or dough for a huge print! Those who reached out were generally met with something like "Maybe someday, but for now I'm too lazy/dumb to put that together."
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Captured: June 2016
Camera: Nikon D610
Lens: Nikon 70-200mm f/4
Settings: ISO100, 70mm, f/8, 1/250 seconds