Bird Brain Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 Palestine Lake, Union Co., Fla. IMG_0155-001 by littlebear_elder, on Flickr 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim W Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 (edited) This is the planet Mars rising over Devils Tower (taken July 17, 2018). In planning my cross continent drive, I realized I would be near Devils Tower National Monument very close to a new moon. I had never tried my hand at astrophotography (hell, I'm brand new to photography period). But I found an excellent web site with lots of advice and instruction. I researched locations in the monument that would align the tower with the Milky Way, set up my tripod and folding chair and gave it a try. I didn't know Mars would be in the sky, but quickly figured it out when I saw it (star tracking app on my phone). Since I had not had a chance to try this even once before I showed up at Devils Tower, I spent a couple of hours taking lots of pictures. Because of the large amount of post-processing needed, I could not get real time feedback so I followed a plan that systematically took me through a wide range of settings. I had no way to know if any of them were going to be worth a damn until a couple months later when I got home and worked on them. This particular photograph is five 15 second exposures at f/2.4 and ISO 4000 stacked using Adobe Lightroom. I had to post process it twice, once to optimize the Milky Way (which makes Mars an overexposed blob) and then again to optimize Mars (which leaves the Milky Way underexposed). I then had to paste optimized Mars over blob Mars. Lots of specialized techniques involved, but the web site allowed a complete novice to get a decent result. /Edit: looks like uploading degraded the picture a bit. But you get the idea 😉. Edited November 6, 2018 by Jim W 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Little Big Horn Battlefield, Montana, this is the coulee that Renos' command used to retreat from the indian Village 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Another view 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Last Stand hill 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted November 16, 2018 Author Share Posted November 16, 2018 In the Oregon Coast Range 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevarc Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I was on a project that closed an old landfill that was leaking. yes, that is artificial grass on a landfill 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevarc Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Carlin Tunnel, NV 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seattle Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 This is an enchanting little place called the Cedar Creek Gris Mill. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 Eastern Sierras, Ca. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted January 7, 2019 Author Share Posted January 7, 2019 Steens Mountain, Oregon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seattle Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Mt. Baker - the afternoon before a big storm hit. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim W Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 On my 8 week cross-continent drive over the summer of 2018, I mostly stayed in nondescript hotels. There were a few exceptions. Here is a picture of my hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta. I had a balcony room on the back of the hotel with a killer view of the lake and mountains. This park was hit with a devastating wildfire in the fall of 2017. Something like 50% of the large park was burned. All of the mountains on the right side of the lake were scorched. Nine months later, I was pleasantly surprised to find enough grasses had grown in to green them up. The fire came within a couple hundred yards of the hotel (Prince of Wales Hotel). Heroic efforts by firefighters saved the historic hotel and the nearby town, but it was a near thing (apparently embers the size of baseballs were landing on the roof of the hotel). Needless to say, the fire did not ruin the spectacular views. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonRon Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Sunrise January 2, 2019 from my driveway. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonRon Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Little North Santiam River, Opal Creek Wilderness ... Oregon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OregonRon Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Late December sunrise in North Central Oregon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Texas sunset. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Watch Tower, Grand Canyon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Oregon Coast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bearcat6 Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 Utau Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 Crazy Horse Carving, Black Hills,SD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearcat6 Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 Monument Valley, Az 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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