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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 !!
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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!
Street light, waxing crescent Moon and Venus
Slight distortion due to being hand held and with minimal processing
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.
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
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.
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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Taken from near the Alameda ferry terminal, I chose this place because from this vantage point, the Bay Bridge seems parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge (the fainter bridge in the background). I liked this picture because the container ship in alignment with the setting sun and the yacht with one of the Bay Bridge towers
The Doric columns in the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina shows how the ancient Greeks were very familiar with the idea of alignment. But in nature the cracks in a large, old stump also show a radial alignment, shown using a TextureLabs texture.
HMMM
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
Looking up at the sun coming through the trees. Cropped and digitally mirrored so the sun and trees appear to be looking back.
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).
- 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.
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus lining up in the evening sky above the Tihany peninsula (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
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.
I don't think these are particularly good shots and I probably wouldn't have posted them except for the fact that I was shocked how well they lined up. Not only the angle but the wheel wells also. I wasn't even trying to do this. Funny how things like this happen. Maybe it says something about our internal levels. Or it's just random.