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I took this picture in London. At first, it was just another picture of another street performer. It wasn't until I edited the picture, that I realized that you can see everything. You can see the crowd reflected upside down on the ball. You can see the ball and the crown in his glasses. You can even see some things reflected on his had. This is the reason why I love this picture.
Went to visit my future in-laws this past weekend and and took advantage of their dark skies and (fairly) new moon. Wanted to shoot other targets throughout the night but fog or clouds came in every night around midnight. I'd consider this image an improvement from the last time I shot M33 back in 2018.
This image was taken with a monochrome camera through filters for luminance (all visible light), red, green, blue, and Hydrogen-alpha (656nm), which were combined into a tue color image. The Hydrogen-alpha was combined with the RGB data (described below) to enhance the hydrogen nebulae in the galaxy (red splotches in the spiral arms). Captured on October 8-10 from a bortle 4 zone (Ha data from my bortle 6 driveway on the 12th).
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**[Equipment:](i.imgur.com/6T8QNsv.jpg)**
* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
* Orion Sirius EQ-G
* ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
* Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
* ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
* Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
* Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
* ZWO ASI-290mc for guiding
* Moonlite Autofocuser
**Acquisition:** 11 hours 53 minutes (Camera at Unity Gain, -15°C)
* Lum - 103x180"
* Ha - 16x300"
* Red - 36x180"
* Green - 36x180"
* Blue - 36x180"
* Darks- 30
* Flats- 30 per filter
**Capture Software:**
* Captured using [N.I.N.A.](nighttime-imaging.eu) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.
**PixInsight Processing:**
* BatchPreProcessing
* SubframeSelector
* StarAlignment
* [Blink](youtu.be/sJeuWZNWImE?t=40)
* ImageIntegration
* DrizzleIntegration (2x, Var β=1.5)
* DynamicCrop
* DynamicBackgroundExtraction
**Luminance:**
* EZ Decon + Denoise
* ArcsinhStretch + histogramtransformation to bring nonlinear
**RGB:**
* ChannelCombinaiton to combine monochrome R, G, B stacks into color image
* PhotometricColorCalibration
* SCNR green
**Adding Ha:**
> I followed this tutorial which had great results [on my last HaLRGB galaxy pic](www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/ml2os3/m51_the...):
> www.arciereceleste.it/tutorial-pixinsight/cat-tutorial-en...
* PixelMath to make Clean Ha. This effectively [isolates just the Ha regions](i.imgur.com/Aob3UEO.png) from the red continuum spectrum
> Ha-Q * (Red-med (Red))
> Q=0.08
* PixelMath to combine Clean Ha
* PixelMath to add Ha to RGB image ($T)
> R= $T+B*(Ha_Clean - med(Ha_Clean))
> G= $T
> B= $T+B\*0.2*(Ha_Clean - med(Ha_Clean))
> B=3
**HaRGB:**
* HSV Repair
* ArcsinhStretch + histogramtransformation to bring nonlinear
**Nonlinear:**
* LRGBCombination with nonlinear L as luminance
* LRGBCombination again with galaxy masked, chrominance noise reduction applied to background
* HistogramTransformation to lower black point
* ColorSaturation to slightly desaturate Ha regions (clean Ha mask used)
* Shitloads of [Curve](i.imgur.com/iPmMDHp.jpg)Transformations to adjust lightness, contrast, colors, saturation, etc. (various masks used)
* LocalHistogramEqualization
* ACDNR
* Extract L channel > LRGBC again for chrominance noise reduction in the galaxy itself
* EZ StarReduction
* NoiseGenerator to add noise back into reduced stars
* More Curves
* Another round of LHE, smaller kernel radius this time
* Even more curves
* DynamicCrop to 16:9 aspect ratio
* Resample to 60%
* Annotation
Every joy, every treasure, every fulfillment that you could imagine is available to come into your life. It is only your insistence on continuing to need these things that keeps them apart from you.
But the only thing really blocking the pathway is your own perception. Take the first step, and you will see for yourself that the way is clear for you to move forward.
Stop imagining what you need, and start realizing the true and boundless value of what you have. Allow the abundance that is already yours to express itself as the fulfillment of your most magnificent dreams.
Let go of the need to need. And find your own joyous path through the richness that extends in every direction.
Taken: On joyous path of Mukshpuri, Galyat Region, Hazara, NWFP, Pakistan.
Por los que me preguntan que Gadgets cargo en la mochila para algún evento o viaje..... Si, creo que tengo problemas
Every season in nice and have their own charme. For me spring and autumn are the most beautiful and colorful.
This was taken last night from my living room window in Toronto.
Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day.
Every Day!
Author unknown, 1872
"Show me, O LORD, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before You. Each man's life is but a breath! Selah." Psalm 39:4-5
"So teach us to number our days — that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom!" Psalm 90:12
You alone, O Lord, can teach to profit — help me to number my days aright!
Surely my days are few and fleeting and uncertain! Days past are gone beyond recall — and my future days I cannot number. Let me then this day, and day by day, confide in You — and look to You for the very help and grace I need.
Surely it is the highest wisdom to renounce self, to cleave to Christ, and to keep the great end of my being in view — "to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever." This is an object worth living for, and which may well engage all the powers of my mind.
Nor let me suppose that it is needful to turn aside from the occupations of my daily life to honor the God of my salvation; for He teaches me that whether I eat or drink, or whatever I do — I may do all to His glory. To this then may I apply my heart, with all diligence and constancy — constrained by the love of Him who gave Himself for me!
"Every day I will bless You — and I will praise Your name forever and ever!" Psalm 145:2
“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
(John Ruskin - English Writer, 1819-1900)
At dawn, I took this picture along the Ganges at Assi Ghat in Varanasi (Benaras).
This lady was draping her silk sari after taking a bath in the holy waters melting with silver and gold at that peculiar hour.
This graceful choregraphy could be a kind of unconscious ritual which helps to face the new day starting as if it was a new beginning of life.
After all there is a new beginning coming with every dawn.
Every year on the day before their birthdays I make a portrait of my boys. Tomorrow is Luc's 18th birthday. I often imbue the portrait with something that is going on in their lives. This year with Luc it's pretty simple... he's on the cusp of being a man. He has made a leap of maturity in the last few months and every day that passes the boy he once was fades a little more. He is starting to find himself and starting to chart the future of his adult life. So here he is as a young man. Happy birthday Luc!
Lit with A Paul C Buff White Lightning Ultra 600 in a small strip box on a boom above and slightly in front. The box was pointed straight down in order to feather the light a bit. A speed light is behind at pretty low power creating a little separation on the backdrop. Triggered with Pocket Wizards and optical slave mode on the speed light. Fujifilm X-T3 and XF 90mm. Processed from raw in Capture One Pro.
Venus only gets this close to the Pleiades every 8 years, so it was a special event. I was extremely happy that despite the weather forecast not looking promising, the sky ended up being pretty clear for this conjunction!
Taken from Oxfordshire, UK with a Canon 1100D with 300mm zoom lens.
Meeting you
was pure destiny,
You and I
were ment to be.
Maybe not now
but someday soon,
We'll meet not under the sun
but beneath the moon.
We'll watch the stars
'till they fade away,
but we won't fade
together we'll always stay.
This is the day
I'm waiting for,
from that day
I'll love you more and more.
I can't wait to watch
the sun set with you,
every sunset from that day
'till the rest of our lives are through.
Every time we come to Cornwall we manage to find 57602. Last year we got it on the same day, the same train, but fortunately we weren't at St Erth! We were going to go there though! Here is 57602 comes into the platform at Hayle with 1C99 the 05:21 Plymouth - Penzance. The train would have been from Paddington if it hadn't been closed 7/4/15
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quote BY René Magritte
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. ” Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ” Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
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Two photoshoots. Two movies. Countless meals. lack of sleep. And a splitting headache.
EOS 50D, AP, 1/200, f5.6, ISO 320, Flash -1 2/3 FEC, 100mm, Handheld
Chicago must be the headquarters of Kay Jewelers, famous for their tag line "Every Kiss Begins with Kay!".
They have a huge store in the Millennium Park area, with this beautiful clock mounted on a corner of their building. Below is a sideways look.
A9002015
Dark blue! I have so much from recent set purchases that I thought I would put it to good use. There is so much blue cheese on this mecha it smells a bit odd.
FULL GALLERY - at Brickshelf's leasure
I had to get out of the house for a bit today, so after the first bit of rain came through I headed down towards the Lake Erie & Niagara River shoreline. The clouds were breaking for just about twenty minutes and constantly changing. I got one color image with my 75-200mm lens (200mm) and a B&W with the 24-120 (120mm). For my friends that aren't here in Buffalo, the silo looking building out on the water is the water intake for the Colonel Ward pumping station. The 1907 building takes in 125 million gallons of drinking water for Buffalo every day. Water rushes into the round brick and concrete building through grates and collects in a circular pool. The water drops 60 feet to a 12-foot diameter, mile-long concrete tunnel burrowed under the river bed. It ends up at the Col. Ward Pumping Station at the foot of Porter Avenue, where it is treated at the filtration plant and sent throughout the city. Atop the red roof is a guard light for passing ships. Around the exterior wall is a balcony embroidered by curving wrought iron. via 500px ift.tt/2hslUxi