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My first and not my last visit to this amazing place, the challenge was getting back and forth on the rocks in the dark to light the shot after dropping my Pluto trigger in the water!! Fairly happy with the result considering id normally expose for much longer!
This long exposure night photograph was taken from the Westminster Bridge looking towards the South Bank of River Thames, including London Eye and County Hall.
It was a windy night during my visit to London in October last year. The London Eye was temporarily stationary, with clouds seen drifting above. The light reflections of the structures in River Thames provided added interests to the nightscape.
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Vallée Grenobloise vue des hauteurs du massif de Belledonne.
On distingue au fond à droite Chamechaude (massif de Chartreuse) ainsi que l'extrémité du Vercors à gauche.
This is going to be a long commentary so pull up a chair and get comfortable. You good, Ok here goes.
This is a shot of the False Kiva in Canyonlands National Park. Taken on day 3 of the southwest tour. It is a panorama of 10 images shot vertically, overlapping 50% between shots.
The Kiva is a cave formation in the side of a cliff with an arduous path leading up to it and at about a mile (.08) makes it a fairly easy hike to get there. Or so I thought. Hear me out!!
While making the preparations for this shot and my trip, I saw a cool photo from my favorite Nightscape photographer Wayne Pinkston, and decided to make a comment about going on this trip. He replied back and said that he would be there at the same time for a couple of days. So, we arranged to meet at the Canyonlands Visitor Center. We originally planned to head up to the Kiva much earlier but when we met I found we had so much in common that we sat there chatting for 2 hrs about a variety of photography topics, scouting, shooting, processing, equipment, and Flickr. What a treat it was to meet up with him. He is the nicest guy and a fantastic photographer. By the time we headed out to the Kiva it was already dark, but we were both "sure" that we could find it. So we trekked off down the trail and quickly found it difficult to follow because some of it goes over solid rock and to make matters worse, the rangers frequently remove the cairns that mark the trail, making it even more difficult to follow. After some time though we relocated the trail and spent the better part of the night shooting at the Kiva. I had pre-visualized this shot well before arriving here and purchased an Indian headdress from Amazon to use as a shadowcaster, which is what has created the shadows across the roof of the cave and Wayne set up some lighting back down the trail some ways to help illuminate the far inside canyon. We wrapped up at around 1:30am and headed out to shoot Mesa Arch at sunrise, except!! we couldn't find the trail out. we scoured the area for signs of a trail with no success, and after shining my flashlight over the edge of the cliffside and seeing nothing but pitch black several times, we decided to campout for a while and wait for some early morning light to help us out. Wayne was running a GPS app on his phone and it helped somewhat but not enough to accurately direct us back to the trail, but when some pre-dawn light showed up we easily found the trail and were on our way.
I love Flickr, where else can you connect with other like minded people and get lost together in the desert. :)
My family and friends thought I was nuts. "Are you crazy" your going out to the desert 900 miles away in the middle of nowhere to meet a stranger from the internet you've never met in person in the middle of the night? "Good luck with that, they said"
Later, After the trip Wayne sent me a screenshot of the GPS map and it looked like we had spent the 2 hrs at the visitor center pounding down inebriating cocktails. LOL :) All told we managed to add 4 miles to the trip just trying to find the trail but man what fun it was and quite exhilarating. What an adventure we had and one I will never forget, not in a bad way, but in a good way. Yea we missed the sunrise at Mesa Arch and I'm not sure about Wayne, but it was my best day shooting photography so far. I kept thinking as we walked around searching for the trail "Man here I am walking around in the middle of the night in the middle of the desert with Wayne Pinkston....Wayne Freaking Pinkston, what "Luck" (Good). :)
For more of the story see Wayne's comments below in the comments section.
Wayne my friend, I thoroughly enjoyed every step and would do it again in a heartbeat!!! Thank you so much. :)
We had originally planned to do some back-packing to get there and managed to do some back-tracking to get out. :)
If you have never heard of Wayne Pinkston, do yourself a favor and visit his awesome stream at this address.
www.flickr.com/photos/pinks2000/
***Sidenote... I was so into the whole feel of this location I downloaded a couple of Navajo songs to play on my JBL Flip while there. I made sure that the songs had no indian words or chants, I wouldn't want to raise any ancient spirits while there. :) It really gave the whole scene a nice ambience at the time of shooting, the acoustics here are amazing.
****And "thank you" for taking the time to read my description and look at my photos. As always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!! Have an awesome weekend everyone :)
Here’s a Year in Review 2017 of nightscape photos taken during my adventures over the past year.
From Top Left Across:
Natural Bridges State Park
Zion Canyon Overlook
Ancient Bristlecone Forest
Trona Pinnacles
Hunt’s Mesa
Cooper Canyon
Bear’s Ears National Monument
Monument Valley(MileMarker13)
White Mesa Arch
If you didn't get a chance to see my YearInReview_Landscapes_2017 check it out here.
For more information about the LLL technique(LowLevelLighting) you can visit lowlevellighting.org
If you do visit LLL.org check out the panorama at the top, Wayne Pinkston took that shot of me at the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley. Thanks Wayne!!
www.flickr.com/photos/dot21studios/39435815151/in/datepos...
Thank you all for being so supportive over the past year. I deeply appreciate your encouragement and am truly grateful for that. If you like my photos then please share them with your friends or add it to your gallery, and as always your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
I wish you all the best in 2018!!
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"But boldly say each night,
To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day."
Abraham Cowley
Infinitum and Perseids - Live Composite - 4s x 1350 = 1.5 h, color temperature 3400 K. Photo taken in Mielno on the night of 10-11/08/2018. E-M10 mk II + M.Zuiko 12-40mm - 12mm, ISO 1250, f2.8.
this picture is the results of 40 photos stacked in Sequator. Also, I slightly brightened the stars of Cassiopeia with StarSpikes to make them pop out. The Andromeda M31 galaxy is also visible on the right.
Shot at White Mesa Arch in Arizona.
Some of you my have noticed my absence lately and I feel the need to explain myself for my lack of participation here on Flickr. No I haven't jumped ship and moved to instagram, I barely use any of my other social media outlets. During the month of October I had scheduled to shoot three weddings to make some extra cash for shooting, which lead me too a realization after editing 8000 wedding photos. I thought that I wanted to make a living on the road shooting landscapes full time, but it turns out that I don't really want to give up all of my earthly possessions, I still want to come home and relax on a large comfortable sofa and sleep in a California King size bed and workout in the garage or mow the lawn or most of all, having a solid income to spend while out shooting. Things that I have taken for granted over the last two years. I found that I would rather work a 9-5 job and enjoy a comfortable living and then shoot on the weekends, that way I can focus on the shooting and worry about the business stuff later. I greatly admire those that have followed that path, to sacrifice so much for their passion is commendable but in my opinion the sacrifice is too great. A plan like that requires a single individual and I'm married so that equation will never-ever work as a married man. So I will continue to be a weekend warrior. It's much more enjoyable that way and as a bonus I can keep my wife. Hehe. :-)
For more information about the LLL technique(LowLevelLighting) you can visit lowlevellighting.org
If you do visit LLL.org check out the panorama at the top, Wayne Pinkston took that shot of me at the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley. Thanks Wayne!!
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, If you like them please share them with your friends or add it to your gallery, and as always your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great day ahead everyone. :)
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Downtown Vancouver seen from Lonsdale Quay at the North Shore.
In front of the "skyscrapers" you see Canada Place, home port to the Canada/Alaska cruises. Canada Place also houses Vancouver Convention Centre, Pan Pacific Hotel and World Trade Centre.
The width of the water here is about 2 kms .
C'est le part de nuages prévu par les exceptionnels ingénieurs de Météo France. Il va s'en dire, qu'avec des coefficient d'erreur de 35%, tous les couillons peuvent déduire la météo de façon aussi fiable.
A part ce détail, un bon moment au calme dans la nuit autorisée, les bottes dans l'eau entre les vieux squelettes.
Le Magouer - Plouhinec