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I had a few days off and decided to go to the southern coast of Finland, to walk along the sea shores. On the same nights, however, incredibly enchanting northern lights can be seen all over Finland. I also saw but being so south, only tamer arches. But they were very mesmerizing to me.
Hanko, the southernmost small town in Finland. Northern lights above the Baltic Sea.
Two single exposure, foreground: ISO 160, f/13, 1/10s. Sky ISO 3200, f/2.5, 3.2s. Shot in raw with normal postprosessing in Lightroom and PhotoShop.
👱♀️🎧 Enchanted ( Taylor Swift )
from one of my summer afternoon walks out on the nearby Los Gatos Creek trail (this section near Campbell park)
I love holiday season autumn/winter nights! There’s nothing like it. I don’t know about the rest of the country or the world, but my holiday season is open! Every night is different, every night is magic, and it’s never enough. Just never enough ♥️ This building matches my red boots
My Stepmother, Kristina, collects "Spode" holiday tablewear. This is a cheap knock-off that belonged to Jack
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ~Marina Tsvetaeva
One from yesterday. How I love Fitzgerald. He's got such a unique voice... romantically scathing, mildly preposterous in the most honest way possible, succinct and wistfully despairing.
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A year or two ago I saw my friend Rick Whitacre’s photograph[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricoshanchez/5575140435/] of the Charcoal Kilns with Star-trails and loved it so much I hoped to photograph it myself on my next trip to Death Valley. The first two nights of my recent visit to Death Valley National Monument I had clouds or partial cloudy skies, but the last night the sky was clear so He-Man and I headed to the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns so I could make a photograph of the kilns with star-trails.
He-Man and I drove out the Charcoal Kilns arriving just before sunset. I got my gear out and started planning and plotting my composition. Once I found my composition I started thinking about lighting the kiln doors. I went inside several of the kilns to check out the size of the opening, and where the best place to stand might be. I’m glad we arrived here while it was light enough to see inside each kiln. If I had arrived in the dark I would have been a little apprehensive about critters sleeping inside the kilns, but they were empty. On a side note: They’re huge inside!
He-Man was going to light the doors for me so we did a timed test-run to see if he would be able to get all the doors lit in one 2 minute exposure. I had purchased a Brinkman light (thanks Marsha for the model info!) I also brought my Rogue Gels along to use to change the light from white to an orange-yellow to look like there was fire in the kilns, but when it got dark enough to start shooting we did another trail run using the light, and it wasn’t quite as bright as I had hoped for. Thinking that might happen I also packed my Nikon SB600 Speedlight. I taught He-Man how to set the flash off then we did another trial run. Loving what I saw using the Speedlight I made my final test shots for my star trails then set up my Intervelometer to begin my series.
It was quite a bit cooler up here than it was down in the valley so I needed my jacket before I wrapped up for the night. There was a Hoot Owl in the trees behind me softly hooting, and there were crickets chirping, but no other sounds. He-Man had gone to the car to read and wait for me. It was peaceful. I found my “happy place” here.
Thank you He-Man for lighting each door so well and for going with me! I’m really happy with this photo.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35@17mm| f4| 30 frames stacked in CS6| 121 seconds| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Tripod
A couple of my friends have also traveled to Death Valley and made their own photo here please take a look!
Phil McGrew- Startrails over Wildrose Kilns [http://www.flickr.com/photos/philmcgrew/7381234450/]
Alex Baranda- Stars and Kilns [http://www.flickr.com/photos/qu2rk/6899207770/]
For the History Buffs-
Wildrose Charcoal Kilns
“In 1877 construction on the kilns was completed. The produced charcoal that was used as fuel for two silver-lead smelters that George Hearst had in the Argus Range 25 miles away. The kilns operated until 1878 when the Argus mines shut down.
There are 10 kilns which stand 25ft tall, and have an approximate circumference of 30ft. Each kiln held 42 cords of pinyon pine logs, and would burn for a week producing 2,000 bushels of charcoal.” ~Digital Desert.com digital-desert.com/death-valley-history/wildrose-kilns.html
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I'm posting late my 19th morning, because of a terrible migraine. The shot was taken properly on time, but the pain was horrible last night to upload it,
I still feel like resting the whole day, but I'm happy with the 365 project, I don't want to miss a day. :)
Maybe this tiny deliciuos piece of 70% dark amazing coffee chocolate was the one that started the migraine. :/
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