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The San Rafael Reef is the abrupt rise of the eastern edge of the San Rafael Swell. Uplifted sandstone slabs called flatirons soar hundreds of feet above the desert, and narrow but deep slot canyons through the reef invite exploration.
July 9 was a new moon, and weather predictions indicated clear skies, so I went to camp and get some shots of the Milky Way above eye-catching scenery.
No one predicted, in any formal way, the silent arrival of smoke season. Here the first of the smoky pall is creeping from the
south.
This frame is a composite of one long exposure (226 s, f1.8, ISO 4000) and 9 exposures of stars (13 s, f2.5, ISO 6400) rotated by StarryLandscapeStacker to transform stars into precise points. Landscape and sky frames were joined in Photoshop.
Serendipity
It's funny sometimes how images come to fruition. Like this morning, I had no desire to get up early for a third day in a row at sunrise, yet I did. Mind you, it wasn't by choice.
You see, my girlfriend had to unexpectedly leave town, and therefore I am living the single life for a few days. Normally, one of our cats, Hana, demands to be let out between 5-6am. And normally, I sleep right through her tirades because my girlfriend lets her out. Well, the first two days of bachelorhood, I had gotten up earlier than the cat. Today, however, with grand visions of sleeping in until 10 or 11am, Hana woke up first. And she was persuasive. Now, there is that little thing called a biological clock, and mine had started to think 5am was a good time to wake up.
So here I was, up again before sunrise, and to my surprise, the rain that had started the night before (and was predicted to really kick in at 6am), seemed to be gone, replaced by really nice storm clouds.
Half asleep, I cleaned my filters, packed my gear, and decided to go easy on myself and head down to a new spot for me photographically, the Capitola Pier. It's close to home, and I didn't think I'd get wet (although I wound up soaked from the waist down).
Originally, I thought I would wind up with a black and white image because I predicted a lack of sunrise color, and in the end, there wasn't any. But the colors of the sky over the almost minute long exposure, along with the golden glow of the lamps on the wharf, were too much to resist.
This image almost didn't happen. But thanks to one persuasive cat, it did.
Nikon D300
Tokina 11-16mm @ 13mm
55.4sec @ f8, ISO 200
B+W Polarizer
Lee .6 Hard and .6 Soft Stop GND Filters
So...Fog was predicted at Epping. So I made the two hour drive to get there and when I arrived there was none.
Not the end of the world, Ive learnt to take the weather forecast with a pinch of salt.
Still....had a nice morning there, and its a really lovely place to shoot. Mist or no mist.
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There are invitations you simply cannot turn down. Spending a night at 3571m on Jungfraujoch definitely falls into this category.
When my buddy Benjamin Barakat informed me about the invitation to visit the high altitude research station and that we would get access to the restricted areas on the Spinx Observatory, I was really excited. The place has been on top of my wish list for quite a while.
The alpine high altitude environment did not make it an easy shooting. When we arrived in the afternoon, there was snowfall, but the forecast predicted that it would clear during the night. Shortly before sunset the clouds parted, but our high hopes were damped when thick fog rolled in shortly after nightfall.
We nevertheless decided to brave the cold on the science platform of the Spinx Observatory and were finally rewarded with completely clear skies.
This image shows the winter Miky Way with Orion and Taurus rising over the dome of the Sphinx Observatory. The bright glow on the right is light pollution from the Italian metropolis Milano, 150km away.
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
iOptron SkyTracker
Sky:
10 x 60s @ ISO1600, tracked
Foreground:
Stack of 5 x 15s @ ISO800
One evening in November I looked outside to see if the predicted snowfall had begun. Yes indeed, it had! Huge snowflakes were falling, thick and heavy. It was the heaviest snowfall I've ever seen here on the prairie. I scrambled to grab my parka and hat and boots, ran out onto the street in front of my house, and started shooting.
One lens, the 70-200mm. Tripod. Trying to make sense of of chaos. The snow seen here, sweeping down left to right, is illuminated by a street light out of the frame on the right. I used different shutter speeds at various ISO settings and worked very fast. Within 10 minutes the snow was piling up on my coat, hat, camera and lens, and I called it quits.
I'm always looking for something a little different, and I found it that night - the night winter arrived on the northern prairie. In retrospect, I wish I'd pushed myself a little harder, but it wasn't easy to keep my lens dry, and my hands were pretty cold at the end. I came away with three shots I like, including the one above. The other two will follow.
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I have not seen the brine trucks out either. Well ! If we get it, I will shoot photos. I think it's just more gas coming out of their backside.
predicts high of 85...low of 65... preciptation.. yes.. on my golden hair.. i have a nice home.......... aaaaaaaaaaaaah florida..
this shot was taken at my daughters little lake at early sunrise..
having woken up with a hot flashes.. I thought this would soothe anyones ailments for a little moment..
celebrating 2000 views!!
I don't know a ton about how the weather works but I have come to recognize that I generally see a nice sunset the day after it rains or when haze lifts in the afternoon. This trip fell under the latter category, as early morning fog shifted to haze before finally vanishing in the early afternoon. It's still hard to predict weather beyond that out here and nearly every day reads the same on the extended forecast: sunny and clear or sunny and hazy. Clouds creep in after dark and disappear by morning.
I headed out a bit late and well after the haze had already lifted. By the time I arrived and parked at Venice Beach, the sunset had already started so I found a clean area of beach and set up there quickly. I really intended to arrive in the late afternoon to take advantage of the 10 stop ND filter and maximize the short winter days but I hadn't quite realized yet how unpredictable LA traffic can be from one area to the next.
The first few trips to Venice had been beyond memorable (the third as well since I took Scotch down to the water on a crowded sunday afternoon) and I spent maybe 6 hours and taken roughly 500 long and short exposure shots on those days. I was a bit worried after the first sunset back in january that I'd only be disappointed by comparison so I tried to stay away from Venice for a little and explore further. By the end of February though, I was back at Venice and while the sunset above wasn't as intense as the previous 2, it did offer a really nice pinkish orange sky with a matching hue on the surf and shoreline.
Like the other trips, Venice as a whole was fairly quiet and the beach was mostly empty. In fact, I think there were more boats out at sea than people on the shore. I imagine it's possible to get used to the winter sunsets out here if you live in the area long enough, but I'll certainly never tire of them. The wind was calm and with the light fading, I mostly focused on the great patterns in the foreground along the beach and the break in the waves and used primarily just a CPL on my lens. It was one of those sunsets that lingers a bit after the sun has gone down and the sky and water remained this color until it slowly faded into night.
I haven't shot many sunsets the last few months in part due to weather not cooperating but also so I could spend a lot more time with my rapidly aging dog and get as many portraits of him while he's still willing and able. As I've mentioned numerous times, he's the main reason I got into photography in the first place and though I love taking his portrait, I'm beyond ready for fall weather and the return of some big, memorable sunsets. Hopefully Scotch will join me a few times whenever these sunsets return.
Venice Beach
Venice, California
February 28th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/3.5
1/13th second
CPL
Captured at New Richmond, Ohio as the MV D Dwayne Stephens of the Excell Marine powers upriver toward Moscow. The village was in the news as it tries to get the American Queen to make New Richmond it's homeport. BB Riverboats will cruise upriver from Newport, Kentucky to New Richmond when the American Queen visits. The weather experts predict that 72.3 % of the village will flood within the next 30 years. Campbell County, Kentucky fills the background.
The predicted high cloud turned up and coloured up up just nicely at Sunrise.
This is the view from a lookout in Waverton which is a suburb of Sydney Australia
Calsky predicted first contact would be 11:12 25.6seconds however I spotted it at 11:11 40s. This image was at 11:12 07 and is clearly visible, I think this is because of this prominence.
Solarscope DSF100 / 1.6x Barlow / Grasshopper 3
Vulcan County, AB
It was predicted to be a Kp7 aurora. The clouds certainly spoil the whole experience but I was glad that I went. This was aproximately 9:30pm & the clouds only got worse. Not to mention the gale force winds that threatened to blow over my tripod & camera!
There are auroras predicted tonight so in preparation we headed out to test new gear, Mine was a re-test of old gear as my favourite wide angle turns out to be horrendously flawed at long exposures dont use anything with VR for LE (yes it was turned off) it still has power to the switch though which results in a magenta band through your shot which is hard, but not impossible to remove. I simply used another lens which I reckon turned out OK.
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Creative intro: life path is not a math, you can’t predict it (you can become a doctor or drug addict). You can’t calculate your fate, (one wrong step and it would became difficult to fix broken seem) sometimes it is too late to fulfill our dreams. Tonight I feel Lucifer’s grope around my neck, there is no turning back from my chosen railroad track.
Creative thoughts: railroad is a symbol of our life our path, it is like a destiny, we don't know why we choose left railroad track and why we choose to become a gambler or a prostitute, why we choose railroad right track and why someone become a thief or why we choose middle track and we become poet writer or painter etc. The problem is life is short as one adventure trip, many of us don't have time and chance to go back at right track, I mean right way. I spend 1 month making photos on a railroad searching for the answer, which track to choose, what move to do in my “headless” life but still I didn't find the answer. I know one thing that some poor souls never get chance to choose life path I mean about little babies that died in birth process (* I worked in hospital shortly and once I got order to bring few months dead baby in a morgue). A lot of people live poor today, some rich families live like a modern kings & queens but there is some kind of justice because nothing is forever, you can't bring your fortune or pain & disease in heaven and hell.
P.s. I recommend you songs: W.A.S.P. – Headless Children, Russ Ballard - In The Night.
The forecast hadn’t predicted it, but there were other factors which gave me hope, such as recent rain and a drop in temperature and as I climbed to the top of the hill and emerged from the trees just before sunrise, I was very happy to see great big balls of the fluffy stuff aka mist. Big thanks to the elves in their mist factory who worked overtime that morning.
I shoot with an Olympus and I love the LIVE BULB/LIVE TIME feature on these cameras which really helped when photographing this shot of the moving mist.
What it does for you, is give a regular update on the exposure as it is progressing, while the shutter is open. So the photographer is able to see the image & histogram ‘develop’ in-camera and stop the exposure once the shutter has been open for enough time.
With mild temperatures predicted and minimal wind, I decided to make a quick trip to Lake Monger this morning. There were not a lot of birds but some patience was rewarded with this photo of Pink Eared Ducks perched on a small sand bar a comfortable distance from the edge. Accompanying this pair were another two pairs that were more interested in sleeping than anything else.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Nick Cannon
Little rodents are especially vulnerable at this time of year. Hungry after a many months in their dens, they emerge with the first warming days, looking for food. This coincides with the hawk migration, and they are looking for food, too!
Meanwhile, ground squirrels and prairie dogs must scamper across the snow to find open patches of grass; for some it will be their last scamper. About a decade ago we had several wet summers in succession, and the ground squirrel population plummeted. A biologist friend told me they were dying in their dens of pneumonia. As a result, I saw fewer hawks during those years. They will go where the food source happens to be.
2017 and 2018 were drought years in southwestern Saskatchewan. A prairie dog researcher from the University of Calgary told me that in 2018, a lot of prairie dogs were underweight by summer's end, and might not have enough body fat to survive the winter. They will produce smaller litters in such years. Last summer there was good rainfall, the rodents that evaded predation were happy and fat, and I expect to see large litters this year. Will there be rain? No one knows. In a way, the uncertainty makes wildlife photography here exciting; I can't predict how things will unfold. That forces me to simply get out and explore, and half the fun is not knowing what to expect.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I'm melting.......a record-setting week ahead with triple digit temps and a predicted high point of 114 here in Spokane. Never seen anything like this severe weather in the Pacific Northwest. With little relief coming for next couple weeks, at least. Gonna be a loooong scorching summer.
I needed a crisp, cool memory to chill me down some. Was so refreshing looking up the Lake Louise outlet on this stormy, snowy day. Wish I could step back into it.
ps: I've got several projects ahead and will reluctantly not be on flickr as much for the next few months. I'll miss the beauty and all of you.
May your week be comfortable and wonderful!
I'm terrible at predicting which pictures will get lots of favorites, but suspect this one will be popular.
Hell, for me, would be Yosemite Valley. What picture could you possibly take that hasn't been taken already? I'll give Ansel Adams credit - he lived there year-found (he was managing the gift shop, IIRC) so for him, it really was a case of "photographing what you know."
Yes, I took pictures of the fireworks, and they came out OK. Maybe I'll post one, but I promise you it will look the same as all the others, except less polished, technically.
As a lot of the UK is either hit with snow or flooding - so far the south west has been relatively unaffected - but today's forecast is for light snow.
Quite where the snow will fall is difficult to predict so we might still miss the disruption it always causes in the UK.
Wellington, Somerset, UK. January 2025.
NOAA predicted kp 7 last night. Perhaps it was that high somewhere, but not over Iceland. 7 pic panorama, shadows lifted but otherwise no correction. 8 sec exposure = too long. 7 pic pano
Addendum: apparently the kp index is not predicting the "intensity" of the lights.
You cannot predict the outcome of an aurora borealis image. All you can do is set up your camera on a tripod and hope for the best. The lights can appear from anywhere and their beauty might make you forget that you were there to capture them. So be careful ... :)
Hope you like it, enjoy!
Photo: Hamnoy, Lofoten, Norway
The predicted cold front has come with a vengeance today so am missing the fynbos Monday hike. The grass in the foothills of the Drakensberg turns a beautiful reddish brown in Winter. I was attracted by the ordered chaos in this image.
For yesterday, the weather forecast predicted sun. Finally!! So, Edgar_Thissen and I went on a blind date to one of Holland's most beautiful zoos; Blijdorp in Rotterdam. How well our little blind date went, since it turned out that we both are equally enthousiastic and obsessed with getting that one shot right.... Must have been a crazy sight; two people, flat on their stomachs in front of the duck pond, oblivious of the rest of the people that had to step more or less over them to pass, shouting at each other "Ooh, look at that one" and "Yeah!, I got 'em!". But we had great fun. Normally, when you are with other people that are not so photo fanatic, you just can't take your time to get a shot right, but this worked out brilliantly. Before we knew it we were thrown out of the zoo because they wanted to close...
So, if you find some similarity between Edgar's and my photos, it figures!
This was one of the last shots of that day. The sun was setting over the duck pond and turned the water into the most amazing colors. We stayed there until it was dark and the colors changed constantly. Used the flash to light up the duckie. While shooting this, we said to each other; 'No one is going to believe that this was the real color of the water". But it was.....
They predicted showers early today but I went out anyway. The skies were pretty interesting though, and it was raining here when I shot this. I happened to catch a lightning strike in the distance too. I shot this with a 1 second exposure and it was about a minute before sunrise. My feet got soaked cause the tide was coming in and pretty rough.
From the 'Photography can mirror what is happening in Life' file.
Though we have no crystal ball to predict the future, and day to day lives have been drastically changed in over a year of social distancing and lock downs, can we still find beauty when things seem blurred?
I am grateful and appreciative of walking outdoors, close to home during lockdowns, and enjoying nature's beauty. It is fun to wander slowly and breathe in the fresh air. This summery, warm morning, with a gentle breeze blowing was refreshing. A stand of large horse chestnut trees were forming a canopy above, their white flowers blooming. Some of the blossoms are falling, dotting the path ahead. There is sunshine, blossoms and more paths to follow. Looks like a fine day to explore.
And to have fun playing with Intentional Camera Movement.
For "smile on saturday" theme of "nothing in focus"
Have a nice day! Keep smiling! :-)
The weathercast predicted mist for this morning. So I set the alarm and went out early. I had to do some mist hunting to find a good spot with some mist, but I think I managed. :-)
Smile On Saturday-Round & Round
This is my Weather Ball. It predicts the weather. I put it in front of the frosty but sunny window upstairs as the sun was rising :)
Despite forecast predicted hazy weather, it remained clear till about 3:40am which gave me a chance to shoot LRGB videos. Seeing okey(ish) but jet stream was around 30m/s.
Getting there with derotating, but gosh it is a long process :)
Moons that I was rather struggling with, not very pleased with them for now but hope I'll get those sorted as well.
Equipment:
Skywatcher 250/1200 Flextube Dobson
Zwo ASI120MM
TeleVue 2.5x powermate
PIPP, Autostakkert 2,Registax and PS fro processing
Well the met office predicted some great weather in the lakes so i planned an early start to Haweswater to catch sunrise, as i climbed up high to a good vantage point it soon became apparent that the met office had done the usual and got it completely wrong, low cloud and poor light.
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Some of the first snows of the winter season came to Lake County, Illinois as weekend train #2607 heads for Fox Lake. With more winter predicted and more MACH's on the way to the district, it'll be a very MACH-y winter on Metra's CUS District. Long Lake, IL.
The predicted storms arrived, and passed. A breath of fresh air before the next set of waves and wind. I will always love fall and winter, fortunately my Fuji gear is always up for the task :-).
Weatherman predicted marine fog moving into San Francisco Bay gated by the Golden Gate. That forecast prompted me to cut my sleep, drive 1 hour to arrive at Golden Gate before sunset. The trip was with excitement but I only found myself surrounded in heavy fog and have zero visibility at this epic landmark site. The fog got cleared up after sunrise, and turned me, a night shooter, into a morning one to capture this amazing landscape of the epic Golden Gate Bridge.
The Photographer's Ephemeris was predicting an epic sunrise this morning, so I set the alarms and got up super early only to discover mostly clear skies.
Resigned to shoot something since I was already awake, I noticed the (almost) full moon descending in the west... I had about an hour before it would set below the horizon.
Fortunately, the Scripps Pier is very close to my home, and I made the quick trip down to the beach for this shot.
The moon is easily mistaken for the sun in these types of photos, because the color temperature of the light is identical to our sun. If you think about it, this makes sense because the moonlight really IS sunlight... just reflected off the surface of the moon.
It was really fun to be the only person out on the beach, it was such a quiet and peaceful morning.
Explore - March 11, 2017
February 2nd is Groundhog Day here in the United States (and Canada). It is said that if the groundhog sees his shadow on this day there will be six more weeks of Winter and if he does not see his shadow we will have an early Spring.
Elijah is posing next to our very own Mt. Juliet groundhog named "Murray". I think I subconsciously named him "Murray" after Bill Murray who starred in the movie "Groundhog Day".
I've always liked groundhogs... and several years ago a family friend sent me my very own. Doesn't everyone have a stuffed groundhog??! :))
BTW - Punxsutawney Phil (the most well known groundhog from Punxsutawney Pennsylvania) predicted an early Spring for this year. :)
Here is a link to Wikipedia explaining Groundhog Day:
The weather forecast predicted 98% high-level and 0% low-level clouds for sunrise this morning... which was not quite accurate.
We did get some colour in the sky... but not much... and not for long... and not where I needed it.
But hey... this photo is not about Table Mountain or the sky... this photo is all about the foreground!
This is another panorama captured with my multi-camera panoramic-rig.
Parallax errors... hah hah... what's that? This image stitched perfectly! :)
Panorama, 6 x Nikon D3200s, 6 x Nikkor 35 mm prime lenses, ISO of 100, aperture of f/11 with a 1/2 second exposure.
Point of Ayr Lighthouse, Talacre
All week the weather forecast had predicted a glorious sun from 6am onwards, then it hinted at clear skies, followed by clouds and then back to clear. We stuck to our game plan and Eddie duly arrived on my doorstep at 3:45am as planned. We quickly swapped cars and headed off... the sat nav pre-programmed the night before (up here for thinking , down there for dancing... you know what I'm like). Not much traffic on the roads at this time of a morning apart from heavy goods keeping the shoppers happy.
We passed over a bridge we didn't know and drove past a ship we couldn't see. Still we were on course and arrived at the beach car park just as the sat nav had predicted - I usually make at least one wrong turn on our travels so this was a first. However, the car park appeared to be locked but it pays to check and on closer inspection they were just badly aligned and leaning so with a bit of heaving and pushing we managed to prize them apart and squeeze the car through. A quick change of shoes for wellies and we were on our way to the beach.
Now those that have visited before will know you have to cross over the dunes before you see the lighthouse and on first sight the vista was not as one would have hoped. Although we were an hour ahead of sunrise, a band of light sat between the horizon and one solid bank of motionless cloud mocking us as it deliberately bisected our intending shots. My first hour of shooting produced nothing worthy of processing and posting. Only with the imminent arrival of the sun from behind the Wirral peninsula did the cloud give in and start to disperse.
What had started as a potentially disappointing trip out was beginning to show signs of hope and excitement. We both quickly moved location, set-up again and clicked away. This is my second frame as the cloud began to break with the rising sun, still not visible on the horizon, under lighting and warming the sky. I began to dream of our changing fortune and hoped...
Forecast predicted by Escaype www.escaype.com/ application/service. Taken just south of Bonsai Rock.