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Captured at the predicted end of totality. This eclipse was moderately dark at totality and the colors of ozone band were muted for this event. I like the almost total time better than mid totality for photography as the solid red ruddy color gives way to other colors of blue and purple that grade across the Moon's disk. A bit more challenging to photograph but for me much more interesting. How the Moon sits in the Earth's shadow and as it moves through it results in a dynamic change in color that is fascinating to watch.
Captured with a Questar Telescope and Nikon Z8 in Tucson AZ. Tucson had severe weather rain high wind clouds that cleared as totality begin resulting in a quick set up when it was practical to do so. The Questar with its optics facilitates capturing the color gradation with its slower optics and high resolution.
The Night Before
19.00: Checked weather forecast. Hoar frost and patches of freezing fog predicted. Poured glass of wine.
19.00-20.00: Enjoyed another splash or two of the old vino while spending a frustrating hour of indecision determining a location for the best sunrise while maximizing the likely atmospheric conditions.
20.01: Tried to remember the exact physical mechanism that could explain how a bottle of wine could simply evaporate in the space of 60 mins. Thinking a Nobel prize may be coming my way if I ever crack it.
20.30: Discovered a smidge of brandy at the end of the bottle. In a fit of OCD housekeeping decided the bottle was littering the place up, so the only decent thing to do was finish off the contents and place in recycle.
20.31: Felt smug for doing my bit for the environment and household chores.
20.45: Finally decided on spot for tomorrow’s shoot. Plugged in camera battery to recharge. Excited to get back behind the viewfinder. Having done a good job of planning, it was time for a celebratory tot (or two) before setting the Casio for a ridiculous early start. Can’t remember going to bed.
The Day
05.30: Alarm went off. Hit snooze in a soporific haze. Repeated cycle. Repeatedly.
06.15: Woke up household has I stumbled around trying to simultaneously pack camera bag (last night I seemed to forget to gather lenses, sd cards, etc. can’t imagine why), get dressed, have a cup of tea (somethings are sacrosanct, no matter how late you are running), and work out why my head was feeling like a freshly washed pillow. Some swearing may have been involved.
06.45: Finally got in the car and headed off. Later than planned.
06.46: Released a tirade of Anglo-Saxon colloquialisms as I realised I would miss the exact moment of sunrise. More Tourette-esque outbursts as I looked out of the windscreen and saw the hoar frost had not materialised and the promised glorious misty morning was not looking very, well, misty.
07.25: Finally parked up in Normanton, Rutland. Rapidly donned wellies (note to self – check the auto spellchecker has not changed “wellies” to “willies”, like it did last time. The resulting confusion and threatened legal action took a long time to resolve) and hiked off to the edge of the reservoir.
07.40: Air temp: -1 deg C, all surfaces covered in a thin veneer of ice, courtesy of the night’s frozen fog (which had mysteriously disappeared)
07.41: Found a good location to set up… a sloping wall running down into the water that I could use as a base for my tripod.
07.42: Put camera and filters on wall as I placed tripod in position.
07.42 + 30 seconds: Heard a thud as camera slowly slid off ice-covered wall and fell onto the gravel.
07.42 + 35 seconds: Frightened local joggers and dogwalkers as I shook my fist at the heavens and (very) loudly berated the gods for my misfortune and noting, with extreme-prejudice, that gods have no fathers.
07.50: Attached ND filter on freshly cleaned up camera and placed on tripod.
07.51: Pressed button on IR remote release. Nothing.
07.52: Pressed button repeatedly while promising to have some severe words with any random deity that may come wandering in this general direction. Still nothing.
08.00: Finally worked out the battery was flat and long-exposure shots were going to be limited to 30 seconds.
08.01: Noticed that my foot was getting very wet and very, very cold. Bloody wellies had leaked. Badly.
08.02: Started taking 30-second snaps as a most glorious mist rolled in across the lake and the church was cast in a beautiful dawn light.
08.05: Soggy foot had gone completely numb. Mind started wandering to vague memories of a first aid course that described the signs and symptoms of frostbite.
09.30: Finally departed Rutland with a smile on my face because I had finally got out to take some photos.
Equipment: Nikon D7000, Nikkor 10-24mm @10mm. ISO 400, F3.5, 30 sec. 7-stop Hitech Firecrest ND filter. Manfrotto tripod
Post-production: 5-shot pano merged in Photoshop. Curve layers to control local exposure. Image warped to remove barrel/spherical distortion. Partially desaturated.
As predicted on The Film Photography Podcast - Beloved Chrome Slide Film is being reintroduced by Kodak Alaris and to be Available in Fourth Quarter 2017
35mm and Super 8!!!!!
filmphotographyproject.com/content/news/2017/01/kodak-ala...
Warm rich red, oranges and golds predict leafy new life to this unusual tropical tree that has delicate powderpuff flowers and dark foreboding chard-like bark.
Witches, trolls, ghosts... they seem to belong in this tree's world.Such a contrast to the rows of delicate new-red, orange and gold leaves that emerge from these fractured trunks. And the red and green mobile clusters that float about as they grow in the breeze.
Sabicu wood or sabicu comes from two species of the genus Lysiloma. Lysiloma sabicu (L.) Benth. occurs sparingly in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. It was named by George Bentham (1800-1884) from a Cuban specimen examined in 1854. Bentham went on to identify a second species, Lysiloma latisiliquum (L.) Benth., which grows best in the Bahamas. The latter is commonly known as 'wild tamarind' or 'false tamarind'.
The wood of both species is similar, mid-brown in color with a reddish hue, heavy (specific gravity of 0.40-0.75) hard and durable. Some timber is well figured, but most relatively plain. The wood has been used in construction, shipbuilding and furniture making, although its weight is a distinct drawback for the latter purpose. The stairs of The Crystal Palace in London, in which The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held, were made of sabicu due to its durability. Despite the enormous traffic that passed over them, the wood at the end was found to be little affected by wear.
Seen on my morning walk in Biscayne Park, a neighborhood in Miami FL
the 12 days and nights after the Winter Solstice are said to predict the 12 months of the year ahead. I summarized each of my 12 magical days with a painted sketch.
Für jede Rauhnacht ein Bild. Inzwischen das vierte Mal, das ich das mache.
With clear skies predicted for lots of my shooting locations on Friday night, my decision wasn’t one of “should I go out and risk it being cloudy”, but more the case of deciding which location I should visit. Although I was faced with a drive of over two hours each way, it had been a couple of years since my last trip to these silos south of Goulburn, Australia, so that’s where I went. Despite two different cloud-forecast services indicating cloudless skies all night, there was a large cloud bank to the south, and southeast of the silos, seen here at the bottom right-hand corner of the photo.
Even though this is a rural locality, there is a car speedway off to the east, and its carpark lighting seems to be left on all night. That was frustrating, but one of the lights did provide a nice “starburst” effect through the support structures that hold up the silos.
Almost as bright as that light below the silos is the planet Jupiter, rising into the heavens and situated above the line between silos two and three (counting from the left). Like all photographs this one doesn’t convey the smells that were assailing my nostrils as I stood outside the compound, clicking away to try to get a few good shots.
For this single-frame photo, I used a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/2.4, with an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Scheduled for launch in late 2015, ESA’s LISA Pathfinder will test key technologies for space-based observation of gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Produced by massive accelerating bodies, these perturbations are expected to be abundant across the Universe, but they are yet to be detected directly.
Although not aiming at detecting gravitational waves, LISA Pathfinder will test the approach that could be used for this daunting endeavour. In particular, the goal is to achieve the best free-fall ever, reducing all the non-gravitational forces acting on two test masses and controlling any residual effect with unprecedented accuracy.
LISA Pathfinder will operate from a special location in the Sun–Earth system: the Lagrange point L1, 1.5 million km from Earth towards the Sun. After launch, it will take the spacecraft about eight weeks to cruise towards its operational orbit around L1.
First, it will lift off on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, as shown in the left frame of this illustrated sequence. The Vega rocket, which is specially designed to take small payloads into low Earth orbit, will place LISA Pathfinder into an elliptical orbit.
The upper right frame shows the spacecraft riding the final stage of the Vega rocket, while the fairing is being released.
After the final stage of the Vega rocket is jettisoned, LISA Pathfinder will continue on its own, as shown in the lower right frame of the sequence. During this phase, the spacecraft will use its separable propulsion module to perform six manoeuvres, gradually raising the apogee of the initial orbit.
Eventually, LISA Pathfinder will cruise towards its final orbiting location, discarding the propulsion system along the way, one month after the last burn. Once orbiting L1, LISA Pathfinder will begin six months of demonstrating the technology for future gravitational-wave observatories in space.
Full animated sequence: LISA Pathfinder's journey to L1
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
First Leeds have invested in over 30 of these Wrights Streetdeck vehicles primarily for busy routes 1 & 6. They carry this bright new livery with Leeds City fleetname, the red being the specific corridor brand. No 35266 is seen here fresh from the wash departing for a publicity appointment in the city. Of course it reintroduces two tone green to the streets after many years, something many couldn’t have predicted.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
(DSCN2190McKenzieRiverflickr052018)
As predicted, the California central coast was hit by high surf this morning. The big waves were 20 to 30 feet high, and the ocean was extremely unsettled.
The sky was blue, and fortunately the tide was low and the gentle wind was coming from the east. Otherwise, our house would be in danger.
Pacifica had a huge number of visitors, many from inland. Despite warning signs, one person, yet to be named, climbed down on the rocks and was taken by a sneaker wave, apparently while his family watched.
One wonders how anyone could fail to sense the danger that nature sometimes displays.
I observed that you could watch the waves and get an idea of what might be safe. HOWEVER, an area that is dry and for 20 minutes never gets hit, can be the next target of a surprise wave. These conditions are very dangerous, and people not familiar with the ocean can be fooled to death.
A 4 hour search by the Coast Guard, with 2 helicopters and 3 boats, turned up nothing.
I feel so sad for this man's family.
It has been a while since I shoot the ocean last time. When weather forecast predicted some light while the sunset was at negative tide, I had no hesitate to shoot the ocean to start this season.
As predicted, a more painterly edit of the Chinook pass Superpano. I'm to close to it to tell if I like it now, but I think I do. Compare to here
I think this will look probably look superb on my Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta
(and for goodness sake compare it large on black... its an epic landscape after all!)
One can consider the presentation of this spectacular hardtop coupe as an ultimate afford to gain attention of the audience to persuade them for buying a Packard. The financial position of Packard was terrible in 1956. But it wasn't much of a help.
Richard 'Dick' Teague (Los Angeles, 1923-1991) designed the Predictor. It was built at Carrozzeria Ghia, Torino in Italy on a Clipper platform. In ninety days the Italians managed to get this project ready, just in time for the Chicago Car Show (see photo).
The Predictor had all kinds of new automotive features, like tilting headlights, roof doors rolled back when opening the door, lowering back window, swiveling seats, dashboard design which followed the hood profile, a power operated trunk lid, and a wraparound windshield that curved into the roof.
Many car brands copied several novelties: the grille at the 1958 Edsel, the roof line at the 1958 Lincoln Premier, the rear bumper at the 1958 Oldsmobile, opera windows or portholes in the rear pillar at the 1957 Thunderbird, and the headlights at the 1962 Corvette.
Only one Predictor was made. It still exists and is on display at the Studebaker National Museum, South Bend, Indiana.
6128 cc V8 engine.
Production Packard Predictor: 1956.
Picture was taken from:
James M. Flammang, Cars of the Fabulous '50s, a Decade of High Style and Good Times, Publications International LTD, Lincolnwood, 1995.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Book collection Sander Toonen (2018, present from Willem).
Halfweg, Nov. 3, 2024.
© 2024 Sander Toonen, Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
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This Sunday, October 17, the Photopills application predicted that the Moon would rise behind Mont Viso (Italy - 3848m) if we were at the top of Pain de Sucre (France - 3208m).
In addition to the loaded hiking bag (2 tripods, 2 cameras, 1 Sky Watcher 102/500 refractor, 1 300mm lens), the climb was dangerous because there was ice and there was no real path to get to the top of Pain de Sucre.
Although I am 9km from Mont Viso, it looks like a juggernaut.
In addition, helicopter rescue was not far away since the yellow helicopter passed in front of the Moon!
EXIFS:
- Canon 6D + Sky Watcher 102/500 (f / 4.9) on tripod.
- Panoramic photo composed of 4 images taken in portrait.
- Each photo is a single exposure of 1/800 ° of a second at ISO 200.
Location: Summit of Pain de Sucre / Hautes-Alpes / Queyras / France.
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Ce dimanche 17 octobre, l'application Photopills prédisait que la Lune se lèverait derrière le Mont Viso (Italie - 3848m) si nous étions au sommet du Pain de Sucre (France - 3208m).
En plus du sac de randonnée chargé (2 trépieds, 2 caméras, 1 lunette Sky Watcher 102/500, 1 objectif 300mm), la montée était dangereuse car il y avait du verglas et il n'y avait pas de vraiment de chemin pour arriver au sommet du Pain de Sucre .
Bien que je sois à 9km du Mont Viso, ce sommet emblématique se présente comme un mastodonte.
De plus, la surveillance aérienne n'était pas loin puisque l'hélicoptère jaune est passé devant la Lune !
EXIF :
- Canon 6D + Sky Watcher 102/500 (f/4,9) sur trépied.
- Photo panoramique composée de 4 images prises en portrait.
- Chaque photo est une pose unique de 1/800° de seconde à 200 ISO.
Localisation : Sommet du Pain de Sucre / Hautes-Alpes / Queyras / France.
Physics predicts the universe will end in heat death -- photons alone in the deep cold void.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.2 Pro hand held in very low light. This is not an AI generated image.
The Aurora Watch UK app had predicted a solar storm so we decided to jump in the campervan and head out to Anglesey. We thought about heading to Penmon lighthhouse but thought the forecasted aurora would attract too many people to that stretch of the coastline. Instead Becky trawled through the O.S. map and found this church.
The whole area warrants further exploration. From where we parked our van we could see the Carneddau Mountains and there is a lovely viewpoint towards Red Wharf Bay. A great location.
The light on the church is emitting from the farmhouse opposite.
groundhog predicts six more weeks of winter. oh joy.
TDS: It's Groundhog Day in the U.S. Make a photo that illustrates whether it's more like winter or spring where you live. #ds79
As many predicted when they first showed up on the property, the Progress Rail (EMDX) SD70ACe-T4s being leased by KCS have become rolling dirt magnets. Exhibit "A" is EMDX 7209 leading the M-KCVN on the UP Springfield Sub, about to cross the TRRA Illinois Transfer at Valley Junction in East St. Louis, IL in order to enter KCS' East St. Louis yard. 7209 has become a regular on this run, bouncing back and forth between Kansas City and St. Louis.
In trail: KCS AC44CW #4587 and KCS (ex-CN) GP40-2LW #2906.
Although you can't see its replacement for the trees, that searchlight on the KCS main to the left doesn't have much time left. In fact, it may already be gone; I haven't been down here in a week or two. All of Valley Junction is on the same trajectory. Get your pics now.
As predicted the timing of the shower and the presence of the Moon adversely impacted the shower's presentation in this time zone. But there were meteors, several captured, among them this one transiting the Big Dipper at 6:06 am as the blue glow of the predawn was appearing behind the foothills. The foothills are lit by Moonlight the Moon being out of frame slightly picked up by the curvature of the 14 mm lens
another meteor: flic.kr/p/2koExMu.
October 9, 2007
Weather report is rain tonight. It's a fall day on the Pacific Ocean.
Pacifica, CA USA
5251_MamaClouds
Morning June-gloom has arrived as predicted in S. California. So you might be seeing white skies in most of my June shots. Fortunately, the overcast weather does not deter the birds, and I was able to get several Stilt shots in flight. Two are posted - the top shows wings up and the first in the comment box shows wings down. (I had it the opposite way, but several people said they preferred wings up, so I changed it.)
Black-necked Stilt
Himantopus mexicanus
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2013 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
Br-Br- Britain is currently in the grip of The Big Freeze - completely
covered in a blanket of snow and ice, with near record minimum
temperatures.
.....Weather forecasters are predicting much more snow and speculating
that this may well be one of our coldest winters in 100 years !
..........Just a blip in Global Warming ?
Yes, rainy weather for Sunday, Cleo, I'm sorry. I'm not fond of rain either but in fact we need the rain as it has been unusually dry here for the last couple of weeks. Fynn will love it, Luan doesn't care and Cleo, well, hates it ! :)
Picked up this side table on CL this morning. Thinking it might be from Paul McCobb's Predictor Group. Anyone know for sure?
An unplanned platform shot, due to the signaller deciding a different route through the station than that predicted:(, but offset by a nice burst of acceleration by the driver:)!! 37421 leads 56049 and 37254 through Nottingham on route to Eastcroft depot.
I'm still awake... predicting the future.
"Remote sensing, life extension, astral projection. Wenger devoured every subject before him, and combined them in ways that were the true manifestation of his genius. Tantric meditation based upon quantum physics, mathematical formulae derived during deeply ritualized seances while megadosing on lysergic acid derivatives he had developed during sensory deprivation. In one of these fugue states, he wrote, he became convinced of the possibility of "imprinting" -- copying thoughts from one person to another. The military, of course, latched onto the idea as a perfect interrogation method: what better way to question an enemy combatant than to read that enemy's thoughts?"
More snow was predicted today for the area I live in, but it hasn't arrived. So with no snowscapes to photograph, I've been looking through my summer photos. As this beautiful tower stands on such a high point, I can get photos of it with lovely blue sky behind it. I visited the tower during a day out with my friend
Broadway Tower was the brainchild of the great 18th Century landscape designer, Capability Brown. His vision was carried out for George William 6th Earl of Coventry
with the help of renowned architect James Wyatt and completed in 1798.
It is one of England's outstanding viewpoints and at 1024 feet (312m) above sea level, it is the second highest point on the Cotswold escarpment. Unrivalled views survey an expanse of a 62 mile radius and as many as 16 Counties.
my SIL dearest sent me some easter type prezzies. this is most intriguing. according to the state of crystals inside, you can tell the weather. of course i shook it up before i got the instructions, so i have no clue if it all works. i'll see if i can get a better picture thru the glass of the crystals, later
With a big winter storm predicted to slam Southern New England in the next few days hopefully I'll be ale to get out for some with the wonderland shooting. So far I've only had one chance at good snowy shots when we got a freak pre-Halloween storm. Here is another shot from that fun day a month and a half ago.
Connecticut was graced with its first major snowfall of the year the day before Halloween. While some places north of the state line saw accumulations up to two inches here in the northeastern section of the Nutmeg state it was heavy and wet but didn't build up too much.
Having just come down from Palmer with New England Central train 608, his day is just about done. He has to do a bit of switching here to spot and pull Willimantic Waste Paper Inc., the NECR's busiest customer in the area. Once that work is done they will pull down just a couple hundred yards and park on the main beside their office that sits at about MP 29.5 of the Palmer Sub and call it a day.
Willimantic (town of Windham), Connecticut
Friday October 30, 2020
The forecasters had been predicting big tornados for the day I shot this beginning three days previously. Indeed a strong storm front formed in the afternoon and approached Wichita at sixty miles an hour. I figured no photowalk so went to the Y to get some exercise. Soon after I arrived at the gym, the tornado warning sirens went off and I got to spend an hour in the locker room, which is the storm shelter at the Y. Afterwards I got in my workout while it rained a bit, and by the time I finished the storm had passed to the east. Quite amazingly, behind the storm it was perfectly calm, so I ended up getting in my photowalk anyway. For whatever reason, we got this unusual ground fog after the storm.... There were a few small tornados that day, but not much damage near Wichita....
Joy for answered prayers ! Rain is finally here and predicted to last more than a week. It is clearing the smoke and will put out the fires. Climate change has been fearfully cruel and damaging to California. This will help with the drought.
(I took this photo some years ago. Its still very early. I'll be out enjoying the rain later. Will post new pix then)
For Our Daily Challenge topic - 'Signs of the Season.'
It was a bit of a grey day when I ventured down to the beach but at least it was not cold. Typical UK summer, you can never predict what it is going to do!
Since 1887, people in the United States have tuned in to see if a Ground Hog, drug out of it's hibernation burrow in February, will "predict" an early spring or 6 more weeks of winter. These are two young ground hogs who've not yet fine-tuned their weather predicting skills and are more interested in eating grass and fooling around. Mama was keeping an eye on them and two other siblings from some distance away. I stayed in my car and used a long lens - no sense irritating a cranky ground hog.
The snow, that had been predicted a couple of days ago when I went out to photography the groyne images the other day, fell yesterday and covered the Grimsby, Ontario area with some 10cm of snow. In the backyard we have a couple of well-past-their-prime Muskoka chairs that had been painted a brightish pastel blue many years ago. That paint is now well weathered and peeled off in many places. I also have an old kitchen chair that was painted pink many decades ago. I have no idea why or by who. But its paint, while pretty much intact, has extensive cracking, creating a nice texture. I carefully walked out through the fresh snow, being careful not to leave footprints where they would show up in the image, placed the pink chair beside one of the Muskoka chairs and then cropped in-camera to keep only one of the Muskoka chairs and the pink kitchen chair. The result was a colourful pink and blue pastel subject set in a bright snow scene. - JW
Date Taken: 2021-01-27
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4.0-5.6 non-D lense set to 125mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Spot metering, Aperture priority mode, f/11.0, 1/100 sec with an EV+1.00 exposure bias to preserve the pastels. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to be 9000px wide, crop the image to 5x7 aspect ratio to get rid of some intrusive materials on the left side and recentre to keep it more-or-less symmetrical, slightly brighten the image overall by setting exposure compensation to EV+0.40, use the black level tool and reduce its value to brighten the darkest areas while preserving highlight detail, use Shadows/Highlights to significantly recover shadow detail, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: I loaded the image as 2 layers and on the top layer added a white/opaque layer mask onto which I painted in the areas corresponding to the chairs (using soft-edged brush and white ‘paint’) to let them show through so I could adjust the brightness shed and snow brightness without impacting the chairs and then on the layer below (i.e. the chairs) of the image slightly slightly increased their saturation, create new working layer from visible result, use the colour balance tool to reduce a slight green colour cast, sharpen slightly, save, scale to 6000px wide, sharpen slightly, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
People know that the Sun and Moon position can be predicted but I bet lots of people, including you, don't know the rainbow position can also be predicted. I didn't know that myself eitther a few months ago. The truth is, the rainbow position is completely determined by the Sun, or the Moon in the case of moonbow. So since my PlanIt app knows exactly where the Sun and the Moon are, I can easily implemented the rainbow predict feature in the app. The recent release on both iOS and Android included this feature.
I planned this shot weeks before my last week's trip to the Yellowstone National Park. The rainbow will only show up when it is overlapping with the mist caused by the waterfall, which means it will only last a few minutes depending how far you are from the waterfall. In this case, I am almost 1 mile away. The further away, the less chance you will see the waterfall rainbow by accident. That's why a careful planning beforehand is necessary.