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This bull moose waltzed through our camp before we packed up and continued on our way. I heard him walking between out tent and my son's hammock (which he was sleeping in) the night before just after we went to bed.
After moving south to Wisconsin 3 years ago, I have enjoyed better northern lights displays that much of the 12 years I lived in Canada. This weekend was no exception. lights filled the sky and gave some magnificent colors, columns, and curtains.
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!
Enjoyed a nice morning out at Crex Meadows this morning. Not super active, but seeing 3 wolves, 2 shirked, and some Sharp-tailed Grouse was satisfying.
These otters were playing whack-a-mole when my wife and I pulled up to view the stream. Also had a mink and 2 Bald Eagles in this spot!
Had another sweet encounter with a Great Grey Owl at a friend's acreage today. We saw the owl fly past while hiking in their spruce woods, then when we got back to the yard, I was searching the treeline along the edge of the yard for the bird, only to realize it was in a small spruce not 30 feet from me!
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.
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.
This is not a remarkable photo, I know. But I am quite excited for it as it was my first encounter with a fisher.
Taken this morning at Prince Albert National Park in Saksatchewan, Canada. He let me watch him on the park road ahead for 2-3 minutes before bolting into the forest.
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.
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 single shot image.
As totality was ending for the lunar eclipse, I turned around in the field I was in to see some pillars of light climbing up from the northern horizon. I quickly changed lenses and took this shot. Mostly visible only to the camera, these showed some nice reds and purples I haven't seen in years. Nice way to cap off a long day with my camera.
Chasing some early Spring Auroras, I instead got an unexpected thunderstorm (in Northern Saskatchewan!)
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 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.
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.
Revisiting my pics of American White Pelicans from this summer at Prince Albert National Park. I am playing with darker exposures to see how they look.
Constructive criticism is appreciated.
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.