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This is a close-up of small soap bubbles inside a larger soap bubble. The light comes from the sun, via a window.
Interesting flare! I think it's a flare from a small bubble that is just behind the edge of a larger bubble. Cool how the light seems to split up.
10 Reasons Why Photography Sucks and Isn’t an Art Form
(hahahaha, just found that here :
richardxthripp.thripp.com/10-reasons-why-photography-suck... )
1. Anyone can do it. With today’s easy-to-use cameras, I have no doubt that a monkey, with some practice, could take a good, interesting photo. Do you like doing the job of a monkey?
2. No talent involved. You’re in a good place, you take a good picture. You’re in a bad place, you get nothing. It doesn't require years of experience and practice like playing the piano, drawing, or sculpting.
3. No creativity. When you take a photo, you’re using a tool to save a copy of a scene. You’re creating nothing and the camera’s creating nothing. Photography is about as creative as mowing the lawn.
4. It doesn’t help you to look at the world differently, If anything, your view of the world narrows, because you’re stuck looking at it through your narrow viewfinder.
5. It’s an art that’s not a science, and a science that’s not an art. Normal scientific processes are torturous and difficult to master, photography is for dummies.
On the other hand, we have b.s. science touted by the “artists,” like megapixels, lens optics, and sensor reflectivity. They have no idea what this stuff means but they pretend it makes the craft complex, and their jobs, difficult and valuable.
6. No future. You can’t make money taking pictures. If you do, you’re not an artist, you’re a businessman.
7. Life as a technician. You can’t get a good photo unless you Photoshop the heck out of it. You’re no more of an artist than the lab operator at Wal-Mart. A computer can easily replace you. How does it feel wasting your talent?
8. Strokes of luck. If you do capture a great photo that needs no editing, it’s because of reason #3. No talent whatsoever; you were just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Don’t you want to be in control of what you create, and when you create it?
9. Join a community of morons. You get to hear a dozen other people complain about the delay of Nikon’s latest DSLR and make excuses why they can never be a good photographer until they have *insert lens here*. Then they’ll complain about how they can’t attract any money.
10. You’re a dime a dozen. You’re building no legacy, you can’t pass your business on to your children, you work on assignment for pennies, and anyone can replace you at anytime. In what other artistic field can anyone do exactly the same work you do, with no talent nor experience?
The AK5C again :) showing Rail options this time.
You might notice a mistake in this one... You can see that an Optics slot is highlighted--meaning it's just been clicked) but it should actually be a H+R slot that has been clicked obviously.
Years ago I bought one of those stupid Fiber Optics UFO's to put on a night stand... My wife hates it... :-) So it (not me, luckily) got condemned into the closet.
We are in the process of moving and yesterday I cleaned out that closet and found it again. My wife urged me to through it out and I agreed (the thing is terribly ugly after all); but before that I wanted to take some pictures and I'm actually quite happy with how they turned out. Let me know what you think.
Oh by the way, she likes the pictures.......... :-)
Would you like to license this photo or get a print? You got it: www.simonchristen.com
Ride 3 - 8 Miles
Total - 25 Miles
nightriding again... light definatley needs more flood.. New Laura optics on order!
Played around a little with small figurines, 3d printed and painted them myself and thought they would do great in a LP scene... so put them on a black cloth and faffed with some fiber optics and el wires.
The AT12RC is carrying a QHY9M Monochrome CCD, an Astro-Physics 2.7" focal reducer, StarlightXpress Filter Wheel, Off Axis Guyider and Lodestar Guiding camera.
The TMB92SS is carrying a QHY11 Monochrome CCD camera which I am evaluating courtesy of QHY US Dealer www.astrofactors.com. I'm using the TS Optics 2.5 inch field flattener, QHY filter Wheel and Off Axis Guider, QHY5 guiding camera.
SOOC. Quite possibly the best sunset sky we've seen while camping. There was a fire in the local region earlier in the day and as a result it appears like a fire here at sunset.
As you all know the lighting of sunsets moves fast, so it was a challenge but fun fun fun to capture this one.
as per wiki:
"Red, orange and pink clouds occur almost entirely at sunrise and sunset and are the result of the scattering of sunlight by the atmosphere. When the angle between the sun and the horizon is less than 10 percent, as it is just after sunrise or just prior to sunset, sunlight becomes too red due to refraction for any colors other than those with a reddish hue to be seen.[15] The clouds do not become that color; they are reflecting long and unscattered rays of sunlight, which are predominant at those hours. The effect is much like if one were to shine a red spotlight on a white sheet. In combination with large, mature thunderheads this can produce blood-red clouds. Clouds look darker in the near-infrared because water absorbs solar radiation at those wavelengths"
Fully functional, 1/6th scale model of the JWST mirror in optics testbed.
Credit: NASA
Taken from North Oxfordshire with a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge mobile phone camera on panoramic mode. Image processed in Lightroom
William Optics FLT 132 APO triplet
ZwoASI2600MC Pro
Optolong L-Pro broadband filter
23-300 second subs
Deepsky Stacker
Adobe Photoshop CC 2021
Stand atop a world and that is when you can see its beauty.
This was my favorite shot from the day. Valerie looks like a goddess (per usual) and the colors and clouds were just absolutely incredible! Ah!
I am so looking forward to more lovely days like this in the future.
:):)
Years ago I bought one of those stupid Fiber Optics UFO's to put on a night stand... My wife hates it... :-) So it (not me, luckily) got condemned into the closet.
We are in the process of moving and yesterday I cleaned out that closet and found it again. My wife urged me to through it out and I agreed (the thing is terribly ugly after all); but before that I wanted to take some pictures and I'm actually quite happy with how they turned out. Let me know what you think.
Oh by the way, she likes the pictures.......... :-)
ESA's research medical doctor in Antarctica protected against the freezing conditions outside the French-Italian research base Concordia.
The crew of Italian-French research station, Concordia, in Antarctica are subjected to almost nine months of complete isolation per year. The station’s location, at 3233 m altitude, means inhabitants also experience chronic hypobaric hypoxia – lack of oxygen to the brain – making it an ideal environment to better understand how humans adapt and survive in extreme conditions.
During the Antarctic winter, the crew of up to 15 people also endure four months of complete darkness: the sun disappears in from May and is not seen again until late August. Temperatures can drop to –80°C in the winter, with a yearly average of –50°C.
After reviewing 20 years of space research on Earth, researchers have established sound knowledge on this exact topic. Some of the tips below will come as no surprise, but solidifying this research is what helps space agencies choose astronauts who will explore farther, and achieve their mission – whether that is on the Moon, Mars or elsewhere.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–S. Thoolen
The Australian Bush. With extreme weather the norm, sweating a part of life the sunsets make it all worth while. This was sunset in the Hunter Valley NSW after an extremely hot day and a number of severe storms. One of the best I have witnessed.
William Optics Gran Turismo 71
Flat6AIII Flattener/Reducer 0,8x
336mm
ZWO ASI 533MC Pro
6x300s
CLS Filter
SiriL, PS, Astronomy Tools Actions Set
Sharpless 101 is a HII region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is also called the Tulip Nebula, because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years from Earth.