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No idea what these are so I've called them triffids as they remind me of that book, The Day of the Triffids. Check the furry bits out!
London Dada Flikr archive album addition. Work No. 508 from 2011.
LInk to the legacy post with associated text.
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Nebula Dragon (Triffid color) from
@Blueberry_Teas
Already on the marketplace to grab =3
This area of the Milky Way Galaxy has a wonderful string of nebulas and star clouds. I decided a few months ago that I wanted to make a DeepScape image of this grouping over Mount Shasta and determined I had three time windows where I thought I could pull it off. Last weekend was my second window and it luckily coincided with a fresh batch of snow on Shasta and Shastina! As soon as I saw the weather forecast, I packed up the Jeep and headed north.
From upper left to lower right, there is Eagle Nebula, Omega Nebula, The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (center), Trifid Nebula, and Lagoon Nebula.
Sony A7S3, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8, 130mm, f/3.2, 55s, ISO1600. Astro stack of 64 Lights, 32 Darks, 32 Flats, and 32 Biases. Tracked on Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer. Foreground taken from same place with same settings, but during dusk. Relative size and position was maintained.
Quick timelapse video of the images I took along the way, including an annotated version of this image: vimeo.com/703919234
The Lagoon and Triffid Nebulae in hydrogen alpha from metro Adelaide backyard in lockdown, 300mm focal length at f/2.8, ISO 1600, 10minute subs, 4 off stacked in DSS and edited in Photoshop. CGEM 2 mount, PHD2 guiding with ZWO guide camera, APT software controlling. A clear and cool night with 87% moon! This is a crop, there is a big ugly flare from this lens when used with the clip filter in the bottom left hand.
I pulled out the box marked Triffid to see what it was. And it started chasing me!!! What are they?
What can I say? These things happen when you're organizing your inventory. And I'm wondering what are triffids? How did they get in my inventory? When and where did I pick them up? Inquiring minds want to know!
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My first autumn shot of the year! OK, there's not much in the way of autumn colours quite yet, but I thought I'd best get a bit of practice shooting woodland in readiness!
I was drawn to the light falling on the mosses and ferns covering this strange-looking tree. I'm not sure what's going on with it. Initially I thought it was a fallen tree - but it's base is firmly planted in the ground. Either way, it made for an interesting subject.
Canon 6D MkII | 24-105mm lens at 28mm | ƒ/6.3 | 1 sec | ISO 500 | Tripod | Polarising filter | Lightroom & Photoshop | Taken at Trevaylor Woods on 03-10-2021
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My first multi-night image, using frames taken in May and July 2021
1 stack of 105 60s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens at f6.3, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 50 darks, 120 biases. Processed in PixInsight as below
* CC defect list + master dark (sigma = 8)
15*(1-(FWHM-FWHMMin)/(FWHMMax-FWHMMin))
+ 15*(1-(Eccentricity-EccentricityMin)/(EccentricityMax-EccentricityMin))
+ 20*(SNRWeight-SNRWeightMin)/(SNRWeightMax-SNRWeightMin)
+ 50
img 4002 ref
* ESD integration, range exclude
* drizzle integration, gaussian kernel
*****Linear processing
*** Initial
* Crop
* DBE tolerance 3, manually placed points outside the dust clouds
*** Color calibration
* PCC using a dust cloud as background, aimed at Triffid, background ref upper limit 0.002
* SNCR 0.8 green
*** Decon
* Using EZDecon, create the following:
* PSF - autogen
* background - autogen, then invert, range selection lower 0.03 smoothness 49, clean with clone stamp, range mask again, invert again - background_range_mask
* star mask: extract luminance, run EZSoftStretch, star mask noise treshhold 0.3 scale 9 smoothness 8 aggregate binarize. Add a couple of ellipses, 2x convolve - decon_star_mask
*** Denoise
Using jonrista.com/the-astrophotographers-guide/pixinsights/eff... as implemented by EZSuite.
* TGV edge protection 3e-5, default MMT
***** Nonlinear processing
*** Initial stretch
* MaskedStretch, default settings
* extract luminance, stretch with shadows 0.05 mids 0.4, apply as mask inverted, stretch mids to 0.3
* ACDNR chrominance only, lightness mask, stdev 4 iterations 6mids 0.2 on lightness mask
***MLT stretch
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**Initial (fine details)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 6 layers
* diffed from original image to create a "blurred" version of original image
* extracted luminance from original, used as mask on blurred version
* used curves to pump rgb and saturation
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
**Second (nebula)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 6 layers, and diff from original
* extract luminance from diff Use as mask on blurred version
* s-shaped luminance curve, gentle, big sat boost
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
*** Finishers
* Star reduce with EZscript, 8 layers of morpho
* With the previous star mask on (raw), unsharp mask with default settings)
* Dark structure enhancement
* EZDenoise, default settings TGV, no MMT
* pump up sat in reds and blues
* MMT sharpen, 6 layers biases 0.1 0.1 0.05 0.05 0.25 0.12
* downsample 3x
The last of the Borage images, this is a four shot focus stack, I always find them a bit scary looking and indeed they are a little sharp, These plants I believe are used for food decoration though I stand to be corrected on that.
I did venture out last night my first wander out with the Camera post Covid. I was amazed and saddened with how much the landscape has changed, even more dark and dry In the week I was confined to base.
I notice some farmers have blocked public access to their land to help prevent wild fires, sadly we have seen the disposable BBQ black patches in many places . I got a variety of images of images last night and some landscapes across the dusty land this morning.
"And beware that rustling in the privet hedge – it could be a triffid! When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere"
~ Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndam
New Grevillea flowers Were asking to be imaged by my Ennar 10cm f2.5 projector lens.
Day 12 of Pentax Forums Daily in February 2020 Challenge.
** Thanks everyone for your visits, comments and faves. I'm chuffed that so many enjoyed this bokeh-rich image from an old projector lens. **
Whistling up the A14 into the dying sun these huge spinning monoliths appeared out of the haze…
Actually, thinking about it, can you really have spinning monoliths? Answers on a postcard please :)
The title refers to a book by the science fiction author John Wyndham that I read as a teenager. It was about giant plants killing people.
I don’t think I would enjoy reading Wyndham's novels today, but there were very few science fiction and fantasy writers at the time. In part, I guess, he is responsible for my interest in the genre though I think most of the blame lies at Tolkein’s feet.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the moving imagery. Happy 100x :)
[This was taken while I was a passenger. I tried to pan the windmills a bit but there was still a lot of jerky camera movement with it being handheld.
Developed and processed in Affinity on the iPaddle, trying to bring out the colour contrast and an appropriate tonal balance.]
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I keep being amazed at how this stalk, now over a foot long, has sprouted out of this small cactus I recently bought. It reminds me of the classic 1963 British film "The Day of the Triffids." Please let me know if this has ever happened to you. Maybe I'll feed it one of my neighbors!! Everyone be safe and well and have a terrific summer!!
an ode to john wyndham's worlds
By the lights of the triffids,
the tiniest, whitest ufo dropped its landing gear
and parked in the seeds of time.
Out poured the lovely little and true kraken.
Multitudes of them! The teenager was reminded
of stories of Vikings… but in miniature.
In a surprising chorus, they sang out,
“We’re here to your rescue, Chrysalids.
Follow our voices. Let us rest together.
And in day’s light, we shall first go to your ice caps.
You and we shall save your planet.
The grups did not mean to wreak such havoc.
They had no capacity for sharing and forethought.”
EXPLORE
Borage is a plant with tiny blue flowers that was introduced to Britain by the Romans and grows wild in some areas. Its leaves, flowers and stalks are edible and taste a little like cucumber. Borage leaves are good in salads, yoghurt or cream cheese mixtures, or served with shellfish.
Borage thrives in a sunny spot and needs a well-drained soil. Because the flowers are so attractive to bees, it's a useful plant to grow alongside fruit and vegetables to entice more insects to pollinate crops.
Amphitheatre Track, Blue Mountains.
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