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A male great horned owl flew in for a drink at Ayer Lake at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. But only the paranoid survive so he took the time to scope things out between drinks.
This from the BioSpere in Potsdam, Germany just outside Berlin. It's a great place of reptiles, butterflies, birds and an absolute array of plant and flower species. As I mentioned in another posting from the BioSphere this was a challenge with no flash but I think this worked out.
I cannot wait to get back there at some point.
Belated HNY to everyone and I hope everyone's 2019 is going to be great.
I've been so busy recently I can't post as much and I haven't been able to get out as much with the camera, but anyway, much love to everyone and as always, thank you! :)
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula, a stack of 11 shots processed in Photoshop. 1 of the frames was 10 minutes at ISO800, the rest were 20 minutes per frame, ISO400. Uncooled Nikon D810A on a Celestron CGEM2 mount, APT controlling the camera, ZWO guide camera with 60mm Sbvony scope for guiding with PHD2. The main scope is a Nikkor 600mm f/4 VR lens, shot wide open here. I had to keep adjusting the focus about every 40 minutes as the temp dropped, which is a pain! When I tried to do the meridian flip I messed it up and the scope lost its aligment, which for some reason I couldn't re-establish. I lost so much time I gave up for the night! Something I have to work on!
Explore Nov 18/08 #25 ..Common Goldeneye (view Large) Just emerging from a dive, still has a film of water over its head. The eyes of a Common Goldeneye are gray-brown at hatching. They turn purple-blue, then blue, then green-blue as they age. By five months of age they have become clear pale green-yellow. The eyes will be bright yellow in adult males and pale yellow to white in females. IMG_0413
I was checking out the Cimarron River area in prep for aspen color season. It's especially pretty, from the pics I've seen.
Cereal field with Verbascum (the highest one) and Phalacroloma anuum (forming the white aspect) among the pine forests near Prtovino, Moscow region
A little bit more of a horizontal stretch instead of a vertical stretch but I have to say that these little greenies have a bag of tricks that will rival any bird in the world!! Saw a number of these little characters on the bayou today but none of them were very cooperative!
I'm a bit late to the party this evening but I will get there!!
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M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy May 2025
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457) is an asymmetrical, face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21.6 million light-years from Earth in Ursa Major. At 252,000 light-years across it is 70% larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, has a disk mass of over 100 billion solar masses and contains about a trillion stars.
This is the first image I took with my 7” Askar refractor.
- Acquisition Date: 04/1/202 - 05/26/2025 – 05/27/2025
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Askar 185 APO 185mm f/7 Triplet Refractor
- Flattener: Askar 1x Full Frame Flattener for 185APO
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.9 Lockhart, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Hydrogen Alpha 50mm filter
- Astrodon Gen II E 50mm LRGB Filters
Exposure Times:
- Luminance:10 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (50 min)
- Red: 17 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (85 min)
- Green: 17 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (85 min)
- Blue: 20 x 300 sec bin 1x1 (100 min)
Total Exposure:320min. (5.3hrs)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
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A male Pileated Woodpecker scans the area for what was making the noise before resuming his work on the cavity at Boyd Hill.
Object: SH2-157 “The Lobster Claw” in HST or SHO Palette (November 2024)
SH2-157 is a large, but faint emission complex in the western part of the constellation of Cassiopeia on the border of Cepheus. Its general shape resembles a New England rock lobster claw., hence its nickname. The nebula is about 11,050 lightyears from Earth in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/06/2024 to 11/01/2024
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 11 Celestron 11" Edge HD @f/7
- Focal reducer: Celestron .7x Focal Reducer, for 11 HD
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
- Astrodon SII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 43 x 10min. (430min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):26 x 10min. (260min) bin 1x1
- Sulfur II (SII):25 x 10min. (250min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:940min. (15.67hr)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
Skyscraper (the Bruges Whale)
SIZE: 38' high, 38' wide (fin to fin), 12' diameter
SCOPE: Public Art, Installation
STATUS: Completed
www.studiokca.com/projects/skyscraper-the-bruges-whale/:
"Skyscraper is a physical example of why we need to change how we use and dispose of plastic in the world today" -Lesley Chang, Principal, STUDIOKCA
DESCRIPTION:
5 tons of plastic waste pulled out of the Pacific Ocean, turned into a 4 story tall whale for the 2018 Bruges Triennial - a reminder of the 150,000,000 tons of plastic waste still swimming in our waters
The organizers of the 2018 Bruges Triennial, approached us to create an artpiece interpreting the idea of the “liquid city”, a concept that defines the city as an ever changing set of consumer transactions, whose identity is in flux as cities grow more and more connected through globalization.
Our first thought led us to thinking about the biggest liquid city on the planet (the ocean), how it connects us all, and how the waste produced and consumed in our cities, specifically plastic waste, ends up in the ocean.
SO, we proposed collecting as much plastic waste out of the oceans that we could in 4 months, and shaping that waste into Skyscraper, an almost 4 story tall whale pushing out of one of Bruges' main canals, and arching over historic Jan Van Eyck Square at the city's center.
Skyscraper was selected along with 14 other installations proposed by a select group of international artists and architects to be brought to life for the event!
Scientists estimate there are 150 million tons of plastic trash in the ocean right now, with an estimated 8 million tons added every year. That means, pound for pound, there is more plastic waste from our cities swimming in the ocean than there are whales. A whale, breaching from the water, is the first "skyscraper of the sea", and as the largest mammal in the water, it felt like the right form for our piece to take in order to show the scope and scale of the problem.
Working with the Hawaii Wildlife Fund and the Surfrider Foundation Kaui Chapter, we were able to pull over 5 tons of plastic to create Skyscraper.
For a video of the process see:
Skyscraper_the making of by StudioKCA
The Michigan City Breakwater lighthouse is located in the harbor of Michigan City, Indiana.
This is the successor to the Old Michigan City Light, when the lantern, lens and light was moved to the new light at the end of the newly extended pier.
This is one of very few lights on the Great Lakes which still has the iron walkway atop the pier (see Manistee Pierhead lights and Grand Haven South Pierhead Inner Light).
There has been a lighthouse in Michigan City for 170 years. However, "most people in Indiana don’t realize there is a lighthouse in the state." Mayor Oberlie passes out lapel pins to illustrate its importance and scope. He calls Lake Michigan "the city’s crown jewel," which became prominent when he was city planner in the 1970s.
In May 2007, this aid to navigation was deemed excess by the Coast Guard. It was offered at no cost to eligible entities, including federal, state and local agencies, non-profit corporations, educational agencies, or community development organizations under the terms of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act. "According to Mayor Chuck Oberlie, Michigan City filed a letter of interest for the lighthouse and will seek ownership."
It is one of a dozen past or present lighthouses in Indiana.
The old 1858 lighthouse, near the entrance to the park, is open as a museum every day except Mondays from 1 to 4 p.m.
National Register of Historic Places 88000069
(Wikipedia)
BRUGGE, Market square, DIAMOND SCOPE by Vibeke Jensen...
An octagonal structure with an amazing shell of mirror glass stands across from the Belfry on the Market Square. Depending where you stand, reflecting the medieval facades,
thank you, M, (*_*)
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A Columbian Ground Squirrel scoping out the land near his den in Manning Provincial Park, BC.
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I'll be driving to Glacier this weekend to spend some time eye level with the mountain gods. Most of the logistics are pinned down, but I am left with one nagging question: which panoramic pinhole to take? I know for a fact that my bag will have one, and only one, pano pinhole in it. Glacier is too appropriate a place for such cameras to leave them all at home. Likewise, it seems way too redundant to take more than one. My choices are between three: the 6x12 Holga WPC, the 6x12 curved plane Reality So Subtle (with filter thread) or the 6x17 curved plane Reality So Subtle with two pinholes. Between those I think the 6x17 is at the bottom of the list. It has already been to Glacier, after all it made this image. The 6x12 Reality So Subtle is my newest pinhole addition and the one I have used the least. But looking back through my Holga WPC images lately I am reminded at just how capable a camera the WPC is. Plus it is so compact and light... and I do plan to get some miles in so every ounce counts.
Thankfully I have just under 36 hours to make up my mind. Not a bad decision to have to wrestle with.
Reality So Subtle 6x17
Kodak Ektar 100
Milkyway - Scopion
Camera: Nikon D810A
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/1.4
Data: ISO1600, f/3.2, 120sec x 60
May 5 2016,1:00-3:15 JST
Mt.Myohgi,Gunma,Japan
Photo by Chuck Rogers who like most everyone his age once mastered the hula hoop.
"A hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs, or neck. Although the exact origins of hula hoops are unknown, children and adults around the world have played with hoops, twirling, rolling and throwing them throughout history."
"In 1957 the hula (also frequently spelled "hoola") hoop was reinvented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin(who died in 2002), founders of the Wham-O toy company. (The two had founded the company in a Los Angeles garage in 1948 to market the "Wham-O" slingshot, which was originally invented to shoot pieces of meat into the air, as a training device for falcons). The idea came from an Australian who had visited California who told Knerr and Melin about children twirling bamboo hoops around the waist in gym class. The new Hula Hoops were made possible by Marlex, a recently invented durable plastic."
"Knerr and Melin were unable to patent their vastly profitable "re-invention", as it had been in use for thousands of years; making the device out of a new material did not meet patent requirements of originality. They were largely able, however, to protect their invention by trademarking "Hula hoop"."
"After the hoop was released in 1958, Wham-O sold 25 million in the first four months and over 100 million in its first year. As the fad ran its course, Wham-O again struck lucky with the release of their Frisbee."
"To relaunch the Hula Hoop in the late 1960s, Wham-O staged a national competition in the US in conjunction with the National Parks & Recreation Network. The National Hula Hoop Contest (subsequently re-named the World Hula Hoop Championships) grew in scope from 500 U. S. cities in 1968 to over 2,000 cities in 1980, with two million participants. Competitors were judged on their performance of compulsory maneuvers (Knee Knocker, Stork, Hula Hop, Wrap the Mummy, Alley Oop) as well as freestyle routines set to music, establishing the roots of the contemporary freestyle Hula Hoop movement."
My friend is famous as a photographer of HDR in Japan. He often makes this signboard the subject. His work is in contrast to my photograph and is very clear, and it is impressive.
I enjoyed photography in Sunshine City on that day. However, I may like this shot most.
On March 8, 2015 in Ikebukuro.
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HDRの写真家として著名な友人が、この看板を主題にしています。 彼の作品は僕の写真とは対照的でとても鮮明で印象的です。
この日ぼくはサンシャインシティで撮影を楽しみましたが、このショットが一番気に入っているかもしれません。
2015年3月8日、池袋にて。
The final pic of this series finds Phil still winding his way down Scope End near the end of an excellent walk. October 1994.
did a shoot with my best friends justin and draytons band "collide and scope" im probably going on a winter/new years tour with them should be fun.
i put my foot in my mouth when i said i was really loving shooting at night hahaa we had to use justins suv lights on high so i could get my camera to focus
-ab1600 boomed thru octa in front little right
-ab800 back left for rim
-ab800 in side and high top of the stair well full power shooting to make the window light up all erie
-canon 5d mark 2
- 17-40mm f4 usm L