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Ventured out on a few simple trails and verver too close to the edge. This is where I started to get up close and personel with the cacti and some creative photo fun. Enjoy
"Majestic Night"
Mt. Lemmon offers some of the best night-sky viewing Tucson has to offer. I'm always shocked at what I can see when I'm out there.
Here is another photo I used an in-camera trick with. To achieve this result, I used a Canon 24mm F/1.4 prime lens and slowely turned the focus ring out of focus during the exposure. I really like how the brighter stars naturally pop out, especially the golden Antares.
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Canon 5D MK II
Canon 24mm F/1.8
ISO 5000 for 20 Seconds
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I've been waiting for the chance to do this (otisblank.com/2011/01/11/took-the-w108-up-mt-lemmon/) again and I finally got the chance today. Took a lot of film photos, I'll post them when I can.
Western Sneezeweed, Owl-Claws, Hymenoxys hoopesii, Helenium hoopesii, to 3 ft. Mountain meadows and coniferous forests.
Mt. Lemmon, Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, United States.
©bryanjsmith.
Resent morning walk. Mt Lemmon is north of Tucson and the 9,000 ft peak is about an hour drive from my apartment, good times ✨
An image taken earlier this week of a monsoon moving across Tucson, shot from one of my favorite photo hangouts at Windy Point, about halfway up Mt. Lemmon. I love the way the light plays off the storms this time of year. It clouds up almost every afternoon, and rains two or three times a week. My favorite time of year in Tucson. This lasts about a month, and then we are back to blue cloudless skies for the rest of the year.
This is one of the views from atop Mt. Lemmon, the tallest peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. (Scanned from a Kodachrome slide)
After spending the last three and a half years studying, practicing and failing to shoot star trails, this was really the one that saw me get it at least somewhat right.
I took a trip on a random Monday night up to Mt. Lemmon and stopped off at a trail not far up the road to the top (I'm hesitant to say which one; I really like the area and kind of want to keep it to myself … which might be a little selfish, but I'd probably tell someone if they asked). I didn't have to walk far before I found this triumphant guy with all of his friends on this hill, facing south back toward town with the North Star right behind, just like I wanted.
I had a quiz the following morning, but still spent an hour exposing these shots. I later learned that I failed the quiz, but it didn't really matter when I got home and edited this together (I later found out that the lowest quiz score gets dropped, anyway :P).
Final composite is the trails with a foreground taken with slightly different settings to get everything just right (metadata below).
METADATA
Canon 7D
Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mm
Shutter speed: 30 seconds
Number of shots: 120 (roughly an hour)
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 100
Captured this during an incredibly clear night up on Mt. Lemmon near Tucson, Arizona. Critiques are welcome!
Lens info: Rokinon Prime 24mm f/1.4
Image is 3 separate images with some focus stacking for the foreground, sky, and backdrop. Minor adjustments made using Lightroom, and stacked using Photoshop.
The monsoons are finally arriving in Tucson, so we will have lots of clouds and great skies for the next several weeks. This is a shot from Windy Point at sunset.
Audubon's Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler observed on Mt. Lemmon outside Tucson, Arizona. Bird in basic plumage at this time of year.
Sunrise in the East, above the clouds, high on Mt Lemmon, the day starts. Alone above the city of Tucson, Arizona the world below seems remote and unimportant.
A print of this photo is available here
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This Panorama was shot above Windy Point on Mt Lemmon just outside Tucson, Arizona in the winter of 2015.