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This tree covered trail is found along the St. Lucie Nature Trail in Stuart, Florida. See it, and more on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
First experiment with night star trail stacking. Definitely need to practice more, and tweak some settings, but it was fun nonetheless!
Stack of 55 images at 30 second intervals.
Star trails over the state of Hawaii as seen from the summit of Maunakea. The towns of Waimea and Waikoloa are the most prominent light sources in the foreground. Behind them is the silhouette of Haleakala. Beyond that under streaks of airliners flying over the island is the light dome from Honolulu nearly 200 miles away.
This is a 2-shot panorama created by using two cameras with identical lenses pointed in slightly different directions. The cameras were synced to take simultaneous 30 second exposures for about 2.5 hours.
The larger rock is part of The Trident; the smaller point in the foreground is presumably related geologically. The meadows, gentle rise, and blue skies make a typical scene on the Thorofare Trail.
The New York Central SD70ACe was the trailing motor on a westbound intermodal at CP 506 after running across Indiana on "home" rails.
It is a simple yet very classy paint scheme. Even in the trail position, the 1066 is a looker.
Star trails taken during the Perseids meteor shower. Over almost a 1 hr period, only managed to capture 3 of them in the FOV.
This is a stack of 105 images (18mm, 30s, f/3.5, iso 6400 single exposures).
This is my second trip to Bandon Oregon. It was just a day trip in anticipation of some color in the sky. We were not disappointed. My app was right. This shot is taken well after sunset after all the other photographers had left. Thank goodness. Because I would have not been able to get this shot without getting in every ones way. With sunset basically being at low tide I had to wade into the surf, being at some surges knee deep to get some wave action with my 14mm on. Out of all the shots I took in an 2 hour plus time frame- some with brilliant colors and cloud formations that were out of this world- this one struck a chord with me that I liked. You still get to see some the clouds and a hint of the brilliant colors albeit trailing. Others will come with those out of world colors but I first have to figure out to handle them to where everyone believes they are real. Because it was very cool. This also has a second shot blended in to help bring out some detail to the closer sea stacks.
On National Route 22
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Star trails over the Pic du Midi astronomical observatory.
The technique used was to combine hundreds of 30s exposures, in order to obtain a large star trails without noise and saturation.
(Collective work with Pascal Petit)
My second star trail in Namibia however in a different region called Deadvlei.
I have treated this differently compared with the first star trail. The difference here is that the tree was "painted with light" for the master shot. I also reduced the amount of star trails as I felt that this scene deserved a more 'delicate' editing approach whereas the previous shot in the Quivertree Forest was more dramatic - silhouette and more trails and more impactful.
Information about the area from Wikipedia.
Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means "dead marsh" (from English dead, and Afrikaans vlei, a lake or marsh in a valley between the dunes). The pan also is referred to as "Dooie Vlei" which is the (presumably original) fully Afrikaans name. In Google there are many references to the site, its name often being translated erroneously in terms such as "dead valley"; a vlei is not a valley (which in Afrikaans is "vallei").[1] Nor is the site a valley; the pan is a desiccated vlei.
Dead Vlei has been claimed to be surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, the highest reaching 300-400 meters (350m on average, named "Big Daddy" or "Crazy Dune"), which rest on a sandstone terrace. However, the Wikipedia article on dunes contradicts this claim; firstly, there is room for debate on the criteria, such as whether there are higher individual dunes (the article lists at least three higher than "Big Daddy") or whether there are higher "average highest area" dunes elsewhere (the dune article lists one possibly higher area in Africa.)
The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area.
The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. There are some species of plants remaining, such as salsola and clumps of !nara, adapted to surviving off the morning mist and very rare rainfall. The remaining skeletons of the trees, which are believed to be about 900 years old, are now black because the intense sun has scorched them.[2] Though not petrified, the wood does not decompose because it is so dry.[3]
Bollywood Blockbuster Ghajini was shot here in 2008.
Last night was a night of firsts for me on Mauna Kea. I visited the VLBA antenna for the first time, drove out to the Thirty Meter Telescope site for the first time (that was a rough road!), and I hiked to Lake Waiau for the first time.
Lake Waiau is a small lake near the summit of Mauna Kea. It is extremely sacred to the Hawaiian people. It is at an altitude of 13,200 ft, and Wikipedia reports that it the seventh-highest lake in the U.S.
The winds were low, so the stars reflected well off Lake Waiau, and I took a few images of the reflections. This is a stack of 5 5-minute exposures. The red lights are from my fellow photographers across the lake. This isn't the most exciting star trails photo I've ever taken, but I've never managed to get reflections this clear before, so I decided to post this.
Random trivia: stars have very different colors. Lower-mass main sequence stars have lower temperatures and appear red, whereas heavier stars are hotter and more blue. Our Sun is a mid-size star, and its spectrum peaks at green wavelengths.