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Explore #352 29-10-10
One of last nights star trail shots over at Hadleigh Castle in Essex. I had several missed opportunities in the past week where I couldn't get out to take advantage of clear skys so last night I dropped my friend Russ a quick text to see if he fancied sitting in a damp field for a couple of hours and surprisingly he said "yes.....sounds like fun". We arrived at 10.30pm, greeted by cloudy skys :( Luckily these cleared away quite quickly. We were joined briefly by some yoofs who painted a bit of their own light into the image. I don't think they realised we were there as shortly after I'd fired up the floodlight they disappeared.
The light was provided by a remote area lighting product, borrowed from the office, which was a past design job for one of our clients.....and it was bloody awesome. It's LED based so it provided some nice blue light - it was switched on for a few seconds in one of the exposures to paint some light onto the brickwork.
With my previous attempts in the garden I hadn't encountered the problems of condensation on the lens. About halfway through the 50mins shot time the lens started to fog up, obscuring the castle. Luckily the trails still shone through (but gradually fade out). I think this actually adds quite a nice (accidental) effect.
I somehow managed to capture Russ motionless in one of the 30 sec exposures so I kept him in the composition......I think he adds something good to the image, silhouetted on the horizon. I had wanted to include the north star in the shot but I couldn't get round to the right spot - the hill that the castle stands on dropped away rapidly fairly close to where I was standing.
After a few hours in the cold & damp I had quite a few shots to work with so at 1.10am, several coffees down and a flat camera battery we headed for home.
Image comprised of 99 (max shots available on continuous shooting with Nikon cameras) 30 second exposures overlaid to show the spin of the earth reflected in the star trail movement. Bit of work in photoshop to adjust contrasts to enhance the trails and to overlay layers.
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Link to Cincinnati Zoo.............. Malayan Tiger Cubs------Male and mom
There are four cubs, all males that are 13 weeks old. It's really hard to capture them all together. Mom seems nervous yet so hopefully over time she'll relax more. I probably will be posting lots of tiger cub and mom pictures since I have so many. The cubs are so much fun to watch playing. Anyone who lives in this neck of the woods should go see them. I don't know how much I'll be able to be on flickr but I'll do my best to see some of your beautiful photos. I do need to break for some dinner. I'm starving after spending time at the zoo and having no lunch. I get so wraped up in my photography that I just don't take time out to eat. My bad! Have a nice evening everyone and thanks so much!
As we strolled here we had no idea that behind the facades lay the Storkyrkobadet-a historic basement bath-house with pool and sauna-we should have brought our bathing costumes !
Explored # 75
a great start to February many thanks everyone x
BRITISH EXPLORER
GBR
Owners:BP Tanker Co Ltd
Port of Reg: GBR London
IDNo:5076377
Year:1950
Name:BRITISH EXPLORER
Keel:
Type:Tanker
Launch Date:21.3.50
Flag:GBR
Date of completion:8.7.50
Tons:8644
Link:1600
DWT:12243
Yard No:1400
Length overall:149.3
Ship Design:
LPP:143.6
Country of build:GBR
Beam:18.8
Builder:Harland & Wolff
Material of build:
Location of yard:Belfast
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn):1D-11
Naval or paramilitary marking :
A:*
End:1964
Subsequent History:
58 CLYDE EXPLORER
Disposal Data:
BU Santander 12.1.64 [Recuperaciones Submarinas]
Details: Mirimar Index
Photo Credits: Unknown Source
Explore May 19 2009 #440
Hi, all my friends. I got out of my prison for 2 hours today ;) Went to one of my favorite places, shot some photos, - here they are!
Yellow flowers in the garden after a shower of rain (in Explore :) Then it was dropped for no reason :(
On my trip to The Burnt Well Guest Ranch I had to change flights at Dallas Fort Worth. I snapped this while waiting at the gate.
Somehow dint find it in my stream so uploading again. Adding P@P exhibition tag
Explored #39
Dec 29, 2008
A favorite shot of mine - love the delicate-ness of the buds of Columbine! Maybe it will bloom tomorrow - looking forward to it!! EXPLORE #228, 04-16-08
Exploring Greenhaven with Cerberus
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okay just ignore this photo! i just have never actually found one of my photos on the explore page!
THANKS EVERYONE! :)
we hold on to the things that are comfortable
its so hard to let go and do something dangerous
the same old patterned days lay ahead
when will they be different?
Con la llegada del calor que mejor invitar con una cerveza frÃa con alguna picadita. La Plata, Buenos Aires.
Esses bulbos ficam adormecidos durante o inverno e na primeira chuva da primavera as flores aparecem em profusão. É conhecida como rain lily, zephyr lily e fairy lily.
Love exploring with my sweet heart!!
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