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These otters popped up from a hole in the ice just 20 feet from me at the Narrows in Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan Canada.
This make Pine Grosbeak was enjoying the berries on the tree beside our driveway the other day. Posing nicely for me.
A phenomenal Geomagnetic Storm last night. This is the best storm I have seen in the States to date (after 23 years of watching).
This wolf may be way off on Lake Waskesiu (a mile or more), but he is my first to see and photograph. I do hope for closer shots some day, but am thrilled to see him after trying for 5 1/2 years in the park.
A phenomenal Geomagnetic Storm last night. This is the best storm I have seen in the States to date (after 23 years of watching).
Had an awesome encounter with a Scarlet Tanager last week which afforded me the dream shots I have been hoping for for many yaars.
A great northern lights storm this evening. Some beautiful lights for any hour, but a brilliant burst that lasted maybe 10 minutes turned the snow green!
I asked a friend for a banana leaf from their tree today (in the middle of a Canadian winter), and had a blast shooting on it. I am quite pleased with the results.
For the second night in a row, the heavens opened up. This time, I am beginning to recognize a pattern. I love auroras that are well-defined with brilliant curtains, and I have seen enough now to recognize that they typically come strong in these times out of times of soft, diffuse bands of lights across the sky. I saw it some last night, and tonight, I was just about to turn in when I saw this and decided to look for another location to shoot from. So glad I did. I found a pigeon barn on the outskirts of town on the side of the road. I set up my camera, and started getting shots of the auroras with the barn in the foreground. Soon, the heavens opened up, just as I predicted. WELL worth the extra time out tonight.
Had an awesome encounter with a Scarlet Tanager last week which afforded me the dream shots I have been hoping for for many years.
My first opportunity to see Comet 2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS.
Very nice tail, much longer than NEOWISE. I can't wait to see how it develops over the next few nights as it rises higher in the evening sky, though I worry the Moonlight will hinder that.
This is a 10-image stack.
The fawn stepped back out onto the trail and after I slowly squatted down for better pictures, he soon began RUNNING towards me until he was about 50 feet away.
My second total solar eclipse in my life (just 7 years from the last). What an amazing experience! Afterwards, I looked at my last shots on my camera and saw they were hopelessly out of focus. I was still so thrilled about the day that I didn't let it get to me.
I got back to the hotel and saw I had some decent ones from the beginning of totality, including the diamond ring shots I missed last time. The irony is that I was busy getting video of in beginning of totality last time that I only got shots of the end of totality. This time, I got the beginning and not the end!
Here is the YT video I got with my other camera and lens.
After a tree fallen down causing obstructing the SG tracks at Broadford earlier on:
VL355-GL109-GL111 leads a very late 6SM7 up loaded QUBE cement train from Berrima to Victoria Dock as they crossing over the flyover towards Jacana taken on Saturday 22/10/2022.
(Note: The last day of SM7/MS7 will be on Melbourne Cup Day on Tuesday 11/1/2022 for contract of Melbourne Metro Tunnels project ceased).
A few photos I did not upload from the May 10/11 storm. That was an incredible storm. The yellow/orange colors in these corona shots are not a result of any photoshopping. My typical workflow does involve some contrast and highlight/shadow adjustments, but I rarely even saturate the colors. If anything, I will lower the saturation at times when the contrast adjustments oversaturate it.
All that to say, these colors are real.
From what I have read, oranges and yellows are the results of overlaps of the typical greens and pinks. Still, these yellows are intense.
RL309-GL109-8037 leads 5MS7 down empty QUBE cement train from Victoria Dock to Berrima as they slowly approach McIntyre Loop for cross #8620 up V/Line Albury pass service at Sunshine Nth taken on Thursday 27/10/2022.
Word's the QUBE SG cement train SM7/MS7 & 7MC7 contract to finish for Melbourne Metro Tunnel project on Tuesday 1/11/2022 (Melbourne Cup Day)!
QBX001 works 4SM7 loaded containerised cement train from Minto to Melbourne into Marulan.
Wednesday 1st August 2018
An unbelievable lightning storm last night passed us by to the North. This is an 8-second exposure. To watch it in real time was just amazing. Constant flickering with bolts coming out of the clouds with a speed that seemed like a time-lapse.
Here is the video I took with my phone.
These otters popped up from a hole in the ice just 20 feet from me at the Narrows in Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan Canada.
I woke at 4am to see that satellites indicated that the northern lights storm had just started, which meant that I had roughly an hour to get outside before they showed up. Thankfully, the spot I had picked the day before for this was just 7 miles away and my camera gear was all ready.
This storm wasn't the brightest, but it was one of maybe 4 times in 23 years that I could see the reds with my naked eye. That also meant they often overpowered my camera's sensor.
The moonlight didn't interfere with this show, but gave some lights to the foreground. And the lake I took these pictures on had very little snow, giving me opportunity to see some reflection.
Waiting for the storm the night before on this lake, I didn't see lights, but did hear the lake giving some very impressive ice quakes.
In all, it was a great way to start the morning.
These otters popped up from a hole in the ice just 20 feet from me at the Narrows in Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan Canada.
Hiking along along the Gandy Dancer Trail this morning when this porcupine waddled out onto the trail not 20 feet in front of me.
In less than a minute (thought it felt like a lot longer), I got more than a dozen varied and wonderful shots, and he was gone.
So Stinking Cute!
An unbelievable lightning storm last night passed us by to the North. This is an 8-second exposure. To watch it in real time was just amazing. Constant flickering with bolts coming out of the clouds with a speed that seemed like a time-lapse.
Here is the video I took with my phone.