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A 360° all-sky or fish-eye panorama of the late winter and early spring sky from a latitude of 51° N. This was March 13, 2021, from home in southern Alberta.
This was a test of new panorama gear, using an Acratech Pan Head on top of a Alyn Wallace/MSM Z-Plate mounted to a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i tracker, to allow taking tracked segments for the panorama, to prevent star trailing. The Z-Plate allowed the Pan Head to mount and move horizontally and vertically in azimuth and altitude despite being on a polar aligned tracker. It worked!
This night there was a bright aurora across the northern sky, so I have oriented the view to place due north at bottom. South is at top. High clouds and haze, partly lit by light pollution here, add the natural glows to the stars, emphasizing the bright stars and constellation patterns. No filter was used here.
The ground is a stitch of 8 segments shot with the tracker motor off, then blended with a stitch of 20 segments for the sky, in 3 tiers of 8 + 6 + 6 segments, all with the Sigma 24mm lens at f/2.8 and for 1-minute with the Nikon D750 at ISO 1600 for all shots. Stitched with PTGui v12 which at last saves camera metadata when exporting PSD files. The original is 16,000 pixels square.
Shooting a panning shot with a pan head and the SlideCam 1000 from Fotodiox.
- Photo by Sean Anderson
Looking through one of my photo albums today and came across some photos of my first Harley-Davidson and scanned a few of them to share.
Around 1972 I purchased a 1963 Harley FLH Police bike that was pretty beat up but still ran. I paid $600.00 for it. After only riding it once or twice, I decided to turn it into a chopper. At that time several of my riding buddies had choppers so that is what I wanted too.
Stripping it to the bare frame, I did metal fabrication (cutting out the frame tube above the engine and welding in a contoured plate), completely rebuilt the engine and transmission, had tons of parts chromed, extended the forks 8", had a 21" front wheel laced to the stock front brake, designed and built the sissy bar and foot clutch assemblies,( I wanted a jockey shift) and fabricated a shifter from an old Knights of Columbus sword. I then painted her myself (I had painted other motorcycles for my friends before this one) with candy apple red and did all the gold leaf work and smothered her with many coats of hand polished clear lacquer. After fully wiring and reassembly was completed, I enjoyed many miles of riding.
Wish I had a photo of the old police bike that I purchased before I started but I wasn't much into photography in those days.
I'll have a couple more photos to post tomorrow.
THANKS so much for all your comments and support!! I appreciate it !!
OBRIGADO por todos os comentários e apoio!! Agradeço imenso!!
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Lens: Canon E16mm
Shutter Speed: 3.2 sec
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 100
Tripod: Walimex FT-6694AT Professional Tripod
Tripod Head: Walimex Professional Panhead FT-6665H
Filters:
- Lee Graduated Neutral Density 0.9 Hard
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All the works on my page and gallery are protected by copyright laws. All rights are reserved to Hugo Fernandes (o g u h). No use of any kind without my permission.
Motorcycle Engagement | Owyhee Desert of Idaho.
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I miss Joe Joe. I wish we could ride our motorcycles again.
On that last day... before he died in the wreck... Joe Joe stopped by to talk to a preacher who had be-friended him. I hope they talked about God. I hope they talked about Jesus. I hope that Joe Joe found redemption.
I wish I had known enough back then to talk to Joe Joe about God. We talked about so much. We did so much for each other. But we never prayed for each other. We thought we couldn't be saved. We didn't understand.
Now I do. Now I know I'm forgiven. I'm going to Heaven.
And I hope Joe Joe will be there... sitting on a '52 Panhead that always starts and never stalls. I want to ride with him again... on the greatest road trip... across the Great Beyond. Please, God: say that You saved him.
So it's -7c ( 25F ) and I ain't going riding so I figured I pick on some older bikes !Panhead from the 1960s and Iromhead beside it would be early 1970s !
Grege's 1949 Harley Panhead on display at the 2012 Helsinki Motorcycle Show. Painted in Peacock Blue. Special features: "No Taiwan Shit"!
The Harley-Davidson Museum is a North American museum near downtown, Milwaukee, Wisconsin celebrating the more than 100-year history of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m²) three building complex on 20 acres (81,000 m²) along the Menomonee River bank contains more than 450 Harley-Davidson motorcycles and hundreds of thousands of artifacts from the Harley-Davidson Motor Company's 110-year history. The museum attracts an estimated 300,000 visitors annually. The museum opened to the public on July 12, 2008, on a 20 acres (81,000 m²) site in the Menomonee Valley. The museum was built in an historically industrial area of Milwaukee. Prior to Harley-Davidson's purchase of the land from the city, the site was formerly used by the Milwaukee Department of Public Works, Lakeshore Sand Company, and Morton Salt. A 4 feet (1.2 m) layer of imported soil was added to combat the contaminated soil. New vegetation was planted to restore the landscape to its riparian state. In late February 2006, designs for the museum were unveiled. The designs were created by James Biber, a partner at Pentagram, his team, and Michael Zweck-Bonner, an associate at Pentagram. Abbott Miller, a partner at Pentagram, designed the museum's permanent exhibitions. The firm designed the museum over a period of eight years. On June 1, 2006, Harley-Davidson began the construction of the $75 million complex with a groundbreaking ceremony that included legendary Harley-Davidson dirt track motorcycle racer, Scott Parker, breaking ground by doing a burnout with a Harley-Davidson XL883R Sportster, instead of with the traditional golden shovel. The site includes parking spaces for 1,000 motorcycles and 500 cars. The Museum's facade also features a 17-foot (5.2 m)-tall, steel Harley-Davidson sign. The museum’s galleries permanent exhibitions, spread throughout two floors, in addition to temporary exhibits and the motor company’s archives. The complex also includes a restaurant, café, retail shop, and special event spaces. Also on display are historic Harley-Davidson items that tell the company's story and history, such as photographs, posters, advertisements, clothes, trophies, video footage of vintage and contemporary motorcycling, and interactive exhibits, including 10 motorcycles that visitors can sit on.
The Motorcycle Gallery
On the museum’s upper level, a procession of motorcycles is displayed down the center of the main hall, running the length of the building, with galleries on either side.
The Harley-Davidson Journey
Along the east side of the upstairs galleries, a series of interconnected galleries exhibit the Harley-Davidson's chronological history. The galleries relate the company's history from its origins in a 10x15-foot wooden shack to its current status as the top U.S. motorcycle manufacturer, producing more than 330,000 bikes each year. The centerpiece of the gallery is "Serial Number One", the oldest known Harley-Davidson in existence, which is encased in glass. The glass enclosure sits within a floor-embedded, illuminated outline of the backyard shed the motor company was founded in.
The Engine Room
The museum's second floor galleries begin with the Engine Room. A Knucklehead engine is displayed disassembled into several pieces. The Engine Room also features several interactive touch screen elements that show how Harley motors, including Panhead and Shovelhead motors work.
Clubs and Competition
The Clubs and Competition gallery includes displays and information about Harley-Davidson's racing history. The gallery includes a section of a replica wooden board track, suspended in the air at a 45-degree incline. The wooden track features vintage video footage of actual board track races, and attached 1920s-era Harley-Davidson racing motorcycles; the bikes that raced on board tracks at 100 miles -per-hour. Fatalities were common, which led to the banning of wooden board tracks for motorcycle racing.
Tank Gallery
The museum's upper floor exhibits also include the Gas Tank Gallery, formerly part of the Harley-Davidson 100th Anniversary Open Road Tour. The exhibit displays 100 of Harley-Davidson's most memorable tank graphics, spanning 70 years, selected by the company's styling department and reproduced on "Fat Bob" tanks.
Custom Culture
The Custom Culture gallery covers Harley-Davidson's impact on American and global culture. The centerpiece of the Custom Culture Gallery is "King Kong", a 13-foot (4.0 m)-long, two-engine Harley-Davidson motorcycle customized by Felix Predko. The exhibit also features exact replicas of the customized Harley-Davidson bikes ridden by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in the 1969 American movie, "Easy Rider", including Fonda's "Captain America" chopper and Hopper's "Billy Bike". Two of each of the two choppers were created, and one "Captain America" was destroyed in the film's production.
THANKS so much for all your comments and support!! I appreciate it !!
OBRIGADO por todos os comentários e apoio!! Agradeço imenso!!
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Lens: Canon E16mm
Shutter Speed: 2.5 sec
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 50
Tripod: Walimex FT-6694AT Professional Tripod
Tripod Head: Walimex Professional Panhead FT-6665H
Filters:
- Lee Graduated Neutral Density 0.6 Hard
Copyright © 2005-2009 Hugo Fernandes
All the works on my page and gallery are protected by copyright laws. All rights are reserved to Hugo Fernandes (o g u h). No use of any kind without my permission.
What do you do when your friends are gone? When their ghosts come every night? When you wake up and take a hit because it's better to be stoned where you can pretend they don't haunt you. You speak to them anyway of course. You sit in a corner, curled into a ball. Shaking,crying, screaming into the air. Then you grab your vest, fire up your panhead, and ride at 100 miles per hour on the wrong side of I-10 praying for a motorist that's not paying attention to smear you across the pavement. Then you find your brothers at the bar. A redhead giving them disgusted glances, until she sees you walk in. She sees the hurt in your eyes, and you see the warmth in hers. She doesn't turn her back at the tattoos, or swastika over your breast. Instead she takes your hand, and leads you into the sunshine. You invite her to a run, find out under her bell bottom jeans are scars colored in with ink. She tells you her story, and you find out that one of the locals abused her. A relationship that soured the sweetest person you've ever met. The sawed-off on my bike found it's way into my hand, then her hand found mine. Her scars could begin to heal after tonight
This is the motorcycle to inspire a generation… Building off the E model and its "Knucklehead" 1000cc engine, the Harley Davidson F would debut the "Panhead"
1210cc engine in 1948, the engine that would become the standard for the brand into the 50s and 60s.
In 1949 (one year after this bike was made) the F model received a new front suspension. The new model was marketed as the "Hydra-Glide".
It was these bikes, one being modified and given the famous "Chopper" look by Ben Hardy and Cliff Vaughs, that were used in Dennis Hopper's classic counter-culture masterpiece Easy Rider.
This 1948 Harley-Davidson FL was seen at the Cotswold Motoring Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water on 6 November 2025.
Out on location for Black Bear Clothing, celeb pastry chef, Waylynn Lucas hustles up behind the vintage panhead Harley. The light was fading fast and quick decisions had to be made, that wasn't hard with these two!
Verona Bike Expo 2015
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Lens: Canon E16mm
Shutter Speed: 20 sec
Aperture: f/14
ISO: 100
Tripod:
Walimex FT-6694AT Professional Tripod
Tripod Head:
Walimex Professional Panhead FT-6665H
Filters:
Lee Graduated Neutral Density 0.9 Hard