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The pinwheel is a face on spiral galaxy found in the constellation of Ursa major, the great bear. Which is a circumpolar constellation, meaning that it never sets below the horizon in the Northern hemisphere.

21 million light years away and some 170,000 light years in diameter, the galaxy is estimated to contain upwards of one trillion stars. It was first observed by Pierre Méchain on the 21st of March 1781.

M101 is just about visible through a pair of 10x50 binoculars under a dark sky with the right conditions. Though a telescope of 6" and above would be preferable.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools & Affinity Photo.

A planetary nebula found in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). Also known as the Oyster Nebula.

A little under 5,000 light years distant from Earth, it's another one of William Herschel's discoveries in 1787.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

This is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Lyra. Planetary nebula are so named because, they are small, round and look like planets.

A planetary nebula is a star entering the final phases of it's life cycle. The more massive stars go out in spectacular style as a supernova. The smaller stars, like that of our Sun. Enter their penultimate phase, that of a white dwarf star, with a little less pazzazz. Though they are no less beautiful.

Captured on 10th of February in Newhey, UK.

Boring techie bit.

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

15 exposures of 180 seconds at ISO 800 (perhaps over exposed it).

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker with darks, flats, dark flats & bias frames. All processing done with StarTools.

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Spent the day searching around Ottawa for a sign to shoot, just couldn't find anything that worked. Heading home feeling bummed I looked up and saw this just 200 yards from my house, sometimes you just gotta look around closer to home ;)

Techie Stuff:

Used the Center Weighted meter mode just below the sign to get the right exposure for the light, had to move around a few times with it to get the right exposure. For post processing I desaturated it a bit to reduce the redness in the bricks.

Our Daily Challenge

Following a clear out of old files to avoid running out of hard drive space....... Came across a few images wanted to re-work since getting NIK Collection. This was using off camera flash.

Think this tree has been consumed by a gravel pit now....

Techie info - Lencarta Ringflash on 1/2 power, powered from Lencarta Safari 600 battery unit, triggered by Yongnuo RF602 triggers, Nikon D700 on manual, with Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 set at f/ 9.0, ISO 320, shutter speed 1/160, ringflash head on tripod at 45 degrees to the left about 25 feet from dead tree.

Processed in LightRoom CC and NIK Collection Colour EFEX Pro 4.

Women of Color in Tech stock images, Women in Tech stock images

Found in the constellation of Canes Venatici a mere 62 million light years away NGC 4151 has recieved the nickname 'Eye of Sauron'. This unusual spiral galaxy has an active black hole at it's core. This AGN (Active Galactic Nucleus) is one of the closest to us.

How many background galaxies can you count?

Data was gathered from my Bortle 7 back garden over 3 nights during the 1st week of April 2025. I had to delete half my subs due to guiding and star trailing issues.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair 60mm guide scope & ZWO 585mc.

60 light frames 180 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

-----Prologue-----

“Seems like you have taken up the best spot already!”, I said in half jest to the photographer right next to me while setting up my gear for the above shot of Zion’s Virgin and the Watchman.

“You got that damn right!”, She said with that unmistakable British accent with no audible trace of jest in her response.

-----Act 1-----

To tuck in the Virgin river’s bend into the frame without backing off on millimeters and the Watchman’s proportion in the shot, I had to move my tripod by about four inches to the right. Problem was, firmly planted on the concrete one inch away was the stern British lady’s equally stern tripod leg.

“Would it be OK if I put my tripod right next to yours?” I asked as gently as I could.

“Yeah fine. Don’t trip mine over”, the flinty voice yielded.

-----Act 2------

While waiting for the sun to obey my wish and light up the Watchman precisely as above, I killed time by serving as an iphone-photographer for a group of three giggling Alaskan college girls (who never paid me my paltry fees of $5, do you believe it?), stretching my muscles in all sorts of shapeless contortions, waving at aghast drivers driving past the hoard of us photographers at 5mph, and talking again to my austere British neighbor.

“Are you from around here? Are you a techie in the Silicon Valley?” She asked me. When I told her what I do for a living, she broke out into a laughter and apologized profusely for stereotyping. From there on, our conversation took on a more manageable course. I learned her name was Mickey. Mickey is not on Flickr but she and her incredibly handsome and devoted husband were traveling the US with one sole purpose: landscape photography.

-----Act 3-----

“Why do we do this?” Mickey asked hinting at all the pain undertaken by landscape photographers (or, faux landscapers, like, yours truly).

“I don’t know why Mickey. I guess, we like chasing the light and stopping time.” The nerd in me was having a field day.

“Tell you what, I do it because it keeps me going. I have lost my son to cancer but all this running around with the camera keeps my sixty-year-old mind and body going. You know?” I noticed a hint of moisture in her eyes reflecting the orange glow of the west earnestly.

“Tell you what Mickey,” I said, looking straight at the unexpectedly revealed segment of her core, “you are damn right! To keep going... That is exactly why I do it too!”

-----Epilogue-----

Mickey, if you are reading this, then here is one more reason why I do it: To meet people like yourself on the trail who somehow have that magical ability to touch others in the span of a moment. Thanks for loaning me a pint of your life-blood to keep my soul flickering.

chinatown - san francisco, california

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Techie Notes: I added a touch of blur to this scene in PS, to bring out the soft feeling of the rain.

The kiosks selling umbrellas sprout up on days like this so one never need worry about being caught without an umbrella. It was a busy shopping day for locals in this neighborhood near the Guglie Bridge. What a pleasure to be able to enjoy the city on foot, with not a single car ever showing up, since they don't exist in Venice. There is a special peacefulness here, away from the big tourist area os San Marco Piazza, and a sense of village and community life undisturbed by traffic remains. I love the soft sounds of Venice: just people talking or the water lapping against the sides of the canals and rios. An occasional boat engine, but they are quiet because they are only allowed to move slowly so as not to create a big wake that further erodes the sides of the buildings. Not a single car! A magical place for sure!

IC 443 can be found in the constellation of Gemini lying very close to the star Propus, Eta Geminorum.

The Jellyfish nebula is a supernova remnant some 5,000 light years away from us.

Data captured at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400 with .7 reducer

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

Best 75 light frames 180 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2 & PixInsight.

Now, you can chat with Barbie®!

Using WiFi and speech recognition technology, Hello Barbie™ doll can interact uniquely with each child by holding conversations, playing games, sharing stories and even telling jokes!

It's a whole new way to interact with Barbie®.

She's ready to discuss anything in an outfit that blends trendy and techie for a cool look.

Use is simple after set up -- push the doll's belt buckle to start a conversation, and release to hear her respond.

More than 8,000 lines of recorded content means countless hours of fun!

Just like a real friend, Hello Barbie™ doll listens and remembers the user's likes and dislikes, giving everyone their own unique experience.

To get started, download the Hello Barbie™ companion app to your own smart device from your device's app store (not included).

Parents must also set up a ToyTalk account and connect the doll to use the conversational features.

Hello Barbie™ doll can remember up to three different WiFi locations and does not require a smart device after WiFi configuration.

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Wifey is away for the weekend... Winner! What's a man supposed to do with himself on a Friday evening? Get nekkid of course! At least I'm honest gents ;)

So I have the living room to myself and out comes 'the gear'

Two light stands and an office chair mat courtesy of Ikea suspended between them. Gelled 'Medium Blue Green' YN560IV fired from below 1/16 @ 24mm. Gelled 'Rust' YN560IV fired from above and slightly behind me 1/8 @ 105mm. Ryus Lightworks MkII torch gelled 'Quality Street' orange and then a quick swap to a 'Quality Street' blue for the background faffery. These had the LPB black fibre modifier attachment. Exported to PS for some fartnarkling and lots of 'Liquefy' to hone the torso!! Then into LR for the RAW conversion.

Enough 'techie' Mark D :)

Thought I best make an effort after last nights quickie! Many thanks to all you folks who commented on my No1 :)

Hikikomori (shut-in) Futaba Sakura was afraid to go out even before COVID-19. To overcome her anxiety, she wears this outrageous mask. Unfortunately, it causes anxiety in everyone else.

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Created for the Toy Sunday theme, STEPPING OUT.

These are both open star clusters found in the constellation of Gemini.

They do appear close together in the night sky, however there is around 12,000 light years between them. M35 being about 2,800 light years away, containing upwards of 500 stars and an estimated 100 million years old. While NGC2158 is some 14,700 light years away and thought to be much older at around 2 billion years old. NGC2158 could be mistaken for a loose globular star cluster.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 aplanatic coma corrector. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount. Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope & ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini.

ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101.

Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

35 exposures of 300s each.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked and processed in PixInsight.

Information Technology Is Serious Business. This is my buddy Jason from work. He is a master computer genius of epic proportions. He can fix anything, literally. He is head of support for the IT Department. He has been asking me for a while to do a cool techie shot of him and what better way than to slap him in a suit (to make him look important of course) and put him in the middle of the server racks.

Please hit the letter L and view large!

Camera Info:

Canon 7D, Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/9.0, 1/200s, ISO 100

Strobist Info: See Setup Shot here.

-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/4 power @70mm Zoom fired bare, 7 feet high and 6 feet away from subject.

-Canon 430EXII Camera left and behind subject, 1/4 power @70mm Zoom fired bare, 6 feet high and 6 feet away from subject.

-Canon 430EXII directly above and behind camera, 1/2 Power @24mm Zoom inside 40 inch softbox, 8 feet high and 5 feet from subject.

-White reflector being held underneath subject about 3 feet below his chin. My buddy Jonathon was holding the reflector.

-Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.

#ABFAV_Artificial_light

This image was taken in Belgium, and the pyrotechnics by courtesy of a Spanish group, music and fireworks amongst the people, never seen anything like it!

Keep safe, and have a great day, Magda, (*_*)

Just adding this note for those interested in the techie stuff; this was taken on my Nikon F4, on 400asa film

I am such an impulsive/intuitive photographer and after all the years, I do things by 'feel', like driving a car, you know what I mean, but I'll try. I'd say f 4.5, 1/30 of second. Of course on a tripod and with cable release. I was way behind the crowd on a small hill, with a long lens probably between 200/250.

The result also depends on the film and sensitivity.

Photographic film is a sheet of plastic (cellulose acetate) coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts (bonded by gelatine) with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity and resolution of the film.

Colour film uses at least 3 layers, I now use film with 4.

Dyes added to the silver salts make the crystals sensitive to different colours. During development, the silver salts are converted to metallic silver, as with black and white film. The by-products of this reaction form coloured dyes. The silver is converted back to silver salts in the bleach step of development. It is removed from the film in the fix step.

Hope that helps and enjoy, Magda, (*_*)

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forced socialization is exhausting!

I had a mixed bag kind of day! It started out looking dank and like rain, so i rolled over and went back to sleep for another 40 minutes. When i got up, the sky was breaking up to my Carolina Blue, so i got myself together and had my tea and checked my mail ...and FB ...and found a message from a friend in Florida that asked if she could use two of my shots to paint in watercolors! She will put my link to my site and give me credit for the original shots. I had the forethought to ask her for a recommendation of a decent web site that i, the untechie might be able to manage on my own. She made a suggestion, and so i called her to discuss and was convinced....so i spent time looking into it and TRYING to set it up.....going back to that whole UNTECHIE problem i have (i am sure it is related to math!) . By then it began to rain,,,,i never even noticed it had clouded over, i was so intent on figuring this out...so i never got out to the store because they do not believe in gutters on houses here and the way my roof slopes, the rain pours off down my stairs, leaving me looking like i just got out of my shower fully clothed. The store could wait!

Then promptly at 1:57pm, the installers arrived for my countertops...which i am thrilled about because now i am not using wood slats to hold my electric kettle for my tea! I love them....my countertops (altho i love my electric kettle and tea too!) i was fascinated with the whole installation thing...they attached something that looked like a defibrillator to my counter top and let it do it’s thing (getting the seam tight?!?). One of the installers was from the town next to me when i was growing up!! small world. i tried to work while they were here but i couldn’t because one of them kept asking me questions ....most of which i was unsure of the answer to...so i was glad when my son in law showed up!

When that was said and done, i felt like i had socialized for a month...which is probably why when i went back to trying to figure out the techie stuff i felt overwhelmingly exhausted...so i ate.....tried again and have decided that tomorrow is another day...and i am going to read my new book. It is quiet time at the ok corral!

Hope tomorrow is a day of less “social” stress....just throwin’ it out there!

One of the most beautiful Victorian homes in the historic village of Mendocino, the MacCallum House was built in 1882 as a wedding gift for Daisy Kelley and her husband Alex MacCallum.

TECHIE NOTES:

This is a single exposure, using a tripod, and the following settings: 6/10th of a second @ f/3.5 and 200 ISO.

Getting this shot took some planning. I wanted to show the house all lit up just before nightfall, yet still have some daylight in the sky. I arrived ahead of time to be able to do some test shots and be ready for the moment. Because it was slightly windy, the clouds were moving quite quickly and there was enough movement in the bushes and decorations that they would get motion blur, so I couldn't do a very long exposure. I tried several shots, and eventually settled on f/3.5, at 6/10th of a second, and ISO 200. I guess I could have increased the ISO but my experience with the Canon EOS 20 D, suggested it best to keep the ISO as low as possible to minimize grain in the final shot. This final and most successful of the evening's exposures was taken at 5:48 P.M. in mid December (several years ago).

Northern California's Mendocino Coast was home to many Native American tribes until Spanish conquistadores, and Mexican settlers -- and later Anglo settlers from the East Coast -- arrived and systematically took over tribal lands after, sad to say, decimating the native populations. There is an excellent museum at the Cabrillo Lighthouse just north of Mendocino village which pays tribute to the culture of the first true Americans - the Pomo - to have lived along this coast.

As for more recent history, here is more information about the Kelley family, one of the first Anglo settler families to establish themselves in this area in the mid-1800's, see: www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/

Better known as the Pacman Nebula.

This emission nebula can be found 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

Do you think it looks like pacman chomping his way across the Galaxy?

All data gathered at the Astronomy Centre 12th of August 2024.

www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

60s exposures.

Best 75% of 100 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

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💗CRY BB.

💗Bossie.

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💗Dazed.

accessories,etc.❤

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💗parfait.

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“I’ve got all the friends I need... online,” Futaba Sakura explains. With the Coronavirus situation, Futaba’s shut-in lifestyle may become more prevalent.

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Created for this week’s Toy Sunday theme, INTIMACY.

DAP Golden Age

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к 105-летию папы:

1950 год, папа - заведующий производством.

Кроме красивого лица моего молодого отца на этой фотографии, которое я не помню, потому что была слишком мала, как технаря меня привлекает здесь телефон того времени. /

pour le 105e anniversaire du père:

1950, papa - directeur de production.

A part le beau visage de mon jeune père sur cette photo, dont je ne me souviens pas car j'étais trop petit, en tant que technophile, je suis attiré ici par le téléphone de l'époque. /

to the 105th anniversary of the father:

1950, dad - production manager.

Except for the handsome face of my young father in this photo, which I don't remember because I was too small, as a techie, I'm attracted here by the phone of that time.

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I know I've not long since imaged this but, I'd setup in hope of the clouds clearing over my local observatory.

Just as I was about to pack everything away, we got a gap in the clouds. M27 was ideally placed right in the gap, so I managed to get 30 exposures of 2 minutes each and some calibration frames with them.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 110, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools and Affinity Photo

Golders Green Station

May 1987

The Citybus fitted with the Volvo Flygmotor Cumulo drive (Google it for the techie detail) which IIRC combined heritage trolleybus / future diesel / electric hybrid acceleration with a pronounced tube train "whine" under brakingbraking!!)

A winter evening....and two companions stopped on the Ponte alle Grazie to enjoy the shimmering water and soft glow of lights along the banks of the Arno. This is the bridge just upstream from the Ponte Vecchio, that one passes by to go to the Piazzale Michelangelo. On the hill one can see San Miniato al Monte. Sometimes I wish it were night all the time! I love how nature envelops us in the darkness, and we return to a different way of seeing and feeling.

TECHIE NOTES: Photo taken in color. Adjusted to monochrome in photoshop, and warming filter added.

For those who like to know about architecture and history, here is information about this bridge in Florence:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_alle_Grazie

Here is a photo of the original Ponte alle Grazie, before it was destroyed during WW II. At the time it was the oldest bridge in Florence:

www.shopping24.ilsole24ore.com/ProductRelated/alinari/fot...

....and here is a wonderful etching of the original Ponte alle Grazie:

grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it:9080/nazionale/galleria-imm...

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And about the romanesque church on the hill:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Miniato_al_Monte

The Basilica di San Miniato al Monte (Basilica of St Minias on the Mountain) stands atop one of the highest points in Florence, and has been described as the finest Romanesque structure in Tuscany and one of the most beautiful churches in Italy.

~one of the fountains at San Juan Capistrano.

I really enjoyed my visit here and would just love to go back. *big sigh* :)

Now, I interrupt this regular HBW photo with this special message:

Dear Flickr techie people,

Why can't I insert an image in my comments under the new version??? I have to switch back to the old version in order to add photos in my comment box. Isn't this going to be a problem once the final switch is made? Can we fix this problem? I assure you, Flickr members like myself appreciate the bigger, newer version of our photos (although you did make it easier to steal) but making it difficult for us to enjoy once simple features is very frustrating. Let's get it together and fix it, yes? Thank you! :-D

Now, where's the comment/complaint box?

If anyone has a solution...or is it just me?

I will now translate the expression the woman behind Daisy is wearing here. "OK...now that tears it. These two are definitely up to SOMETHING! Nobody...but nobody takes pictures in the checkout line at Walmart just for the hell of it!" 😜

I just had to post this one first. Daisy and I had a very nice evening yesterday. Nothing special, just stopped and shopped at a couple of places before doing a pretty big Walmart run. We were getting low on a bunch of stuff, and I figured it was as good a time as any to knock it out. Afterwards, we had a nice dinner before heading home. And before you ask, yes I had a little fun with Daisy's little backdoor vibrating toy along the way. Not as much as I would have liked however. Technical difficulties kept me from realizing it's full potential. (It would be so nice to have a knowledgeable techie to walk me through this stuff...) But it was a good test run. I'll figure it out soon enough. 😉

This is a landscape version from my visit to Holywell Bay near Newquay earlier in the summer. This was taken only a few minutes apart from the portrait shot but the difference in the sky is quite dramatic.

It might not look like it here but this beach and these rocks were featured in the opening sequence from 'Die Another Day' the James Bond film.

In this version I deliberately kept the contrast and shadows low to give a more gentle, mellow feel.

Thanks for looking.

Ade

Techie bit: EOS 50d, 24-70, bracketed & blended

The Fossil Footprint Nebula.

Discovered in 1790 by William Herschel NGC 1491 can be found in the constellation of Perseus at a distance of approximately 11,000 light years from us.

Known as a HII region. This type of nebulae is caused by ultraviolet radiation from the hot young stars being born within ionizing the surrounding nebula, which cause it to glow in visible light allowing us to see it.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi585mm guide camera, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

85 light frames combined with calibration frames in DeepSkyStacker and then further processed using PixInsight, Graxpert & Affinity Photo.

Construction Drone and Heavy Machinery techie.

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Located 6,400 light years away in the constellation of Orion, the Monkey Head is an emission nebula and home to the open star cluster NGC 2175.

The nebula acts as a womb for new stars to be born. Those new stars then radiate such immense energy that blasts in to the surrounding gas and dust that makes up the nebula. This has the effect of not only clearing away the surrounding nebula from the newly born star but, causes the gas and dust in other areas to be pushed together. When enough of this material is pushed together it allows gravity to take hold and pull more and more of it in. When enough of it is pulled together there's a good chance another star will be born.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 70% of 30 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Affinity Photo.

Tried to describe the mixture of old architecture and a techie device.

Women of Color in Tech stock images, Women in Tech stock images

summer 2007 we had a loaner 5D that a certain little figgin' memory card hated and chewed up an entire photo session. saved the card and sent it to the manufacturer in hopes of getting back the corrupt shots.

they poked and prodded and did better than i could

find but well, sadly only a few shots survived.

i'm pleased to share with you at least a frame or two.

more info in the comments

;)

pickerel lake ontario

northwest of algonquin

canada

techie stuff:

2.5 min, 16mm @ f/2.8 ISO 400

Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 II

A reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion, often called The Running Man Nebula.

NGC1977 is actually made up of three nebulae, those being NGC1973, NGC1975 and NGC1977.

It was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and is roughly about 1,460 light years from us.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures, Gain110 at -20c

Best 75% of 80 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in StarTools.

a little sampler with some wise words for the techie in your life

Have you ever seen a doll this close?

What do you guys think, would you like to take a Macro shot like this one? Do you like Macro photography? Isn't my Raven perfect? (she better be since I was a good half hour searching for the perfect "one" in the store xD).

You can view it in it's original size btw, I've uploaded it in full quality so you can see Raven like she's under a microscope hehe

Techie stuff: For those wondering how I did this I used a very cheap extension tube on my 50mm lens.

Nothing Screams "I'm an American" Like a Fourth of July Strobist style ShalerJump

YES, we were nearly shut-down 1/2 way through the action be a security officer whose supervisor thought we should be doing our thing. We were on the top floor of Fiesta Mall Parking Garage in Mesa AZ. The mall encourages people to watch the fireworks there, and it was a full house The guard said something about "All this equipment"

The guard started to say that photography is not allowed, but they let it happen for the Fourth, (duh) I basically said that we're no different than the other people with their cameras. I pointed to a few people w/ tripods and D-SLR's I politely said that although the strobes might be bright, so were the fireworks. We're just taking some pictures of our friends and trying to be patriotic.

Yes we were where the cars could drive, yet the garage was packed full and nobody should be driving, although some people did come late. The guy understood, got on his radio and let us continue. (yeeee ha!) So, if people give you static. POLITELY reason with them and ask what makes a Strobist any different than anyone else with a camera. Why should crappy photographers get away with photography when the world just needs better photos?! :-)

Anyway, what did you do on the Fourth, Just fireworks or did you do it strobist style?

Techie/ Strobist Info...

-Two -sunpak 622 strobes, one camera right (with a small brolly box)

-2nd 622 seen camera left, behind in the photo (lens flare and all)

-3rd strobe, sb-800 on ground behind the Jumper, w/ Small snoot of blackwrap.

- fired by Pocket Wizards.

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Shot one of my favorite models - Monica Brankovich at the beach of a local lake, while we were strolling after a fashion shooting. Nice and provocative poses are her second nature.

For the techie junkies - shot with Canon 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 LII USM + Profoto B1 and Profoto Deep Umbrella Silver XL.

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This is NGC2841 The Tiger's Eye galaxy.

First discovered by William Herschel 9th of March 1788.

It's an unbarred spiral galaxy which can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear).

It's 46 million light years away and approximately 150,000 light years across, so, quite big.

Imaged taken 5th of January 2022 from my back garden.

Boring techie bit.

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

Yesterday I buid this little guy. As all his species he love technology. They always wear high tech suits so nobody knows their real appearance. Somebody think they are bots but some scanners have proven there is a life form inside their suits.

Ayer construí a este tipo. Como toda su especie le encanta la tecnología. Siempre llevan trajes de alta tecnología por lo que nadie conoce cual es su apariencia real. Aunque algunos piensan que son robots, algunos scaners han probado que existe una forma de vida dentro de sus trajes.

Women of Color in Tech stock images, Women in Tech stock images

Actually, raspberries have been very, very good to me. So this is not revenge.

As the hoods say in the movies, its nothing personal, just business.

Took a bunch of shots until I caught that sneaky little pellet just diving into the tasty berry.

Just curious, every once and a while I get a crappy picture that has some tech interest. I don't want to show everyone that stuff, but some people are interested.

Should I try to figure out how to post the techie things in another secure (sometimes) disclosed location?

Things like setups, equipment, after shot mayhem.

Let me know in the comments.