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Did you ever think of just driving your car as far away as you can instead of going to work in the morning? It's a thought that captivates me, and that's how I imagine someone could end up after driving until they no longer have gas in the tank.
I had wanted to try astro-landscape portraits for a while now. For my first try, I asked my old student, coworker and friend to drive out really far to go see the Milky Way.
We ended up at Churn Creek Protected Area, a gorgeous location I encourage people to visit. But beware, the last 80km or so are done on a dirt path snaking between hills and overlooking cliffs.
Once you arrive on location, you end up in an arid area where the Churn Creek canyon intersects with the Fraser canyon. This place is amazing.
For our shoot, I was hoping the night would get pitch black, but we were far enough in the North that it actually didn't and I was able to navigate without using my flashlight despite that night being moonless and the location a 1 or 2 on the Bortle scale of light pollution. Despite the night being surprisingly bright and slightly cloudy at the same time, details were still visible in the Milky Way.
But it means I'll have to return at the end of the summer, when days will become shorter again and nights longer.
This shoot was done with my Sony A7R, my LA-EA3 adapter, my Sigma ART 35mm, Yongnuo Flashes (3) and flash trigger and a Pixel remote camera trigger.
I configured the shot before sunset, placing the car and the camera so that I could take a shot with enough exposure difference to be able to separate the sky and the foreground in a masking shot. I then waited patiently for the night to fall, and when it started getting dark but before the Milky Way really appeared, I arranged the shot with my model. I purposefully had the flashes have a blueish temperature compared to the white balance, and I pointed two of them at the model and the front of the car, while a third gelled flash gave some colors to the inside of the car. Next, I took series of photos of the Milky Way, which was faint but nevertheless detailed because of how bright the night was. And finally, I did a 24:40 exposure to expose the background (the mountains and parts of the canyon).
After all that, I just had to put everything together. The sky is noisier than I would have liked, because I had to separate it from the sun's light pollution.
Anyway. I'm pretty happy with that first try. I know it's a composite shot, and taking it in one shot would have been easier, but I didn't want everything to be grainy because of the high ISO, so I preferred compositing the image to hopefully end up with a higher image quality compared to similar in-camera shots. I could have used a slightly lower ISO by using a wider angle lens, but I really wanted the Milky Way to look big in the sky.
India is still under a huge pall of Covid 19 pandemic with the highest death and infection fevers. People are not dying so much because of the disease but because of lack of facilities and non vaccination of the populace. Democracy skews sometimes and brings forth leaders who are popular but are totaly unfit to think rationally.
Continuing this series on the Elephant at Work in one of the Saw Mills in Fort Kochi.
The tiny shifts and maneuvers that the elephant makes to move such heavy loads is a case in point in this series. The deft way with which the trunk is being used to pull the tree can be seen here. Not much body effort either.
The elephant is a gentle giant and has been to a certain extent used extensively in Kerala for ceremonial parades for Hindu temples.
The non temple elephants also work on per hour basis in timber yards moving tree trunks, stacking and unstacking.
Other than that elephants used to be the bulwark of the armies of the Indian kings as they fought off the invasions coming from the Khyber Pass into the rich fertile plains of India. That worked for some time but then the horses and guns changed that.
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Really didn't fancy going back into work today. By some miracle, which is almost certain not to be repeated for the rest of 2011, the train was on time.
The chap on the right is a fellow commuter who gets the same train as me every day, yet despite seeing each other every morning, it is only recently that protocol has allowed us to graduate to a nod of greeting with a hello on special occasions (eg announcement of a major delay*)
The train coming home was delayed, so back on familiar territory.
*See the fascinating Watching the English by Kate Fox for more details of the strict protocols governing how rubbish us English types are at communicating.
shouldn't we stay together
we can work it out
are there any changes coming
sure i'd love to change it all
Christmas morning about 2004. See the whole album "Ghosts of Christmas Past"
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I have a thing for old barns. One day I may just do an entire series. A lot of people see a barn like this and think it's run down and falling apart. I see this barn as a life dedicated to intense labor, calloused hands, early mornings, blood and sweat... and strong black coffee.
I'm on restricted duties whilst I recover from my hernia op, but I've been sitting here for 6 hours now, and I've done nowt!
Abandoned kid's toy workbench in a vacant lot, Henry County, Georgia
Olympus XA-4 with Santacolor100 film.
Ant at Work
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
Ants appear in the fossil record across the globe in considerable diversity during the latest Early Cretaceous and early Late Cretaceous, suggesting an earlier origin.
Scientific name: Formicidae
Order: Hymenopterans
Lifespan:
Black garden ant: 4 years
Pharaoh ant: 4 – 12 months
(Wiki)
Nikon D850
TAMRON SP 90mm F2.8 Di VC USD Macro 1:1 F004N
ƒ/5.0
90.0 mm
1/160
720
Taken on November 27, 2019
Delhi
This wire tapestry is inspired by a song written and sung by my nephew. You can read more about it on my blog.
l work at the computer from 8am until 12.30, then my day is free.
Usually wear something comfy, but not the heels.
No work today for Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T No 4 'Doll' which is at rest in Pages Park loco shed yard. In superb condition, it is hard to believe that this little loco turned 100 years old in 2019!
Demolition works near Espermühle in Kaufbeuren. Building project Forettle.
Abbrucharbeiten an der Espermühle in Kaufbeuren in Verbindung mit dem Bauprojekt Forettle.