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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.
A repost of a cinnamon-phase black bear I saw in Prince Albert National Park this past summer. I have learned some tweaks on my workflow for Photoshop that gives cleaner results. I reworked this shot, and have thus reposted it.
One of my favourite Woodpeckers, this one showed up at our annual camp meeting and afforded me some nice shots.
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!
One of my recently moulted Mexican Flame-knee tarantulas (Brachypelma auratum) sitting on a nautiloid fossil.
Tooka trip up to the North Shore of Lake Superior to photograph Northern Lights with a friend tonight. Worth the trip. Not the best show by far, but a great photo-shoot nonetheless.
Took an hour outdoors this evening to capture the Northern Lights. Been a long time since I have had a decent auroral shoot. Only it was -35˚C outside this evening, I was happy to leave when the activity started dying down.
A stack of 3 shots (to reduce noise). I can't get over how bright the earthshine was here, especially since I got an almost identical shot (3% moon at dawn) a month previous with nearly no earthshine.
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.
CM3303 and CM3312 head south away from Bargo as they haul a load of containerised cement to Melbourne as 2SM7.
This service has recently switch from operating out of Minto, to directly out of the Boral Maldon facility in the Southern Highlands, eliminating hours of excess travel time, although its a little unclear as to why this service requires 2 locomotives, as traditionally its a single QBX.
Monday 15th April 2019
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.
Enjoyed a night out with my kids as we watched Northern Lights and looked for Perseid Meteors.
Not the best display I have seen, but certainly a very nice one.
I decided to rework these Silver Fox pics tonight as I have noticed my tendencies to brighten images up, often too much. These were taken in dark morning twilight, at ISO 51,200 (my camera's max), but instead of trying to make them look like daylight pics, I thought to try to darken them to look more like the night shots they are.
In my quest to become more comfortable and skilled at dark images, I want to open up comments to helpful tips and criticisms. Some of these are stacks (which amazes me that I could get 5 or more images close enough to identical with a subject like this TO stack), and there are interesting things playing with the lighting on some surrounding vegetation.
A phenomenal Geomagnetic Storm last night. This is the best storm I have seen in the States to date (after 23 years of watching).
How many Bald Eagles can you find in this photo?
This was taken from Reads Landing, on the Minnesota side of Lake Pepin (Mississippi River) earlier this week. I only saw 5 eagles in frame when I took the photo, but after downloading it, I realized there were a LOT more.
This little Eastern Screech Owl felt across the road in front of me at sunset, and I turned around to see him. He posed nicely for me.
Thing is, we are at the edge of their range, so this is a sweet meetup.
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.
Had an awesome encounter with a Scarlet Tanager last week which afforded me the dream shots I have been hoping for for many yaars.
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!
Mario Frangoulis
rehearsals prior to performance at The Royal Albert Hall, London, Great Britain
16th September 2008
Photograph by Elliott Franks / Live
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