Venus Kissing A Prairie Morn
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Venus takes one last act at center stage prior to the sun rising above the horizon. It was such a serene and peaceful feeling on this morning. A gorgeous view of the Central Shortgrass Prairie was had by all. ;-)
Image Notes: HDR constructed of 7 frames 1EV apart and blended with non-hdr frames manually in post.
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Uploaded on Jul 9, 2009
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Striking Wildflowers
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As in lightning strike that is. ;-)
Another from our great year for thunderstorms, again from Pawnee National Grassland.
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Uploaded on Jul 8, 2009
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Jeep for Scale
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I wanted to share this one, so when I said I was in the middle of nowhere on the last two shots you would know what I meant. For scale look to center and you can just make out a tiny Jeep Cherokee with my sleeping wife inside.
The tree on right is the one I ran around with the LED lights on for the previous shot. Hard to believe this is only an hour away from a thriving city. I feel so lucky to live here!
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Uploaded on Jul 7, 2009
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Blue Me Around A Tree
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So I found this amazing celestial blue centering device out in the grasslands.... no actually what you are looking at is a nearly 40 year old man wrapped up in blue LED Christmas lights (tiny AA battery powered ones from the dollar store) running around a tree in the middle of nowhere at 3 am as fast as he can with out falling down. Yeah, I know. ;-)))
Of note for this shot is that Mars and Venus form a triangle on right with the Pleiades Star Cluster/Seven Sisters. And I need to check my camera's clock. I am thinking since it was showing first light this was actually taken at 4 am. Oh yeah, this is the same tree/location as my previously posted image.
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Uploaded on Jul 6, 2009
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Moonset on the Central Shortgrass Prairie
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It was a gorgeous moonset on Pawnee National Grassland on Friday evening, here it is just before it dipped below those clouds for the last time.
Have you ever wished for a tool to tell you all sorts of info on when moonset, moonrise, sunset, sunrise, twilight and such are going to occur on any given night for any given location on Earth? What if I were to to tell you that such a tool exists (free!)? And to add to the its utilitiy, it can show on Google Maps the angle a sunset/rise/moonrise/set will be in, so you can plan for what day you need to be at a certain location to get your dream shot of the sun setting over a certain rock outcrop or so on.
I've been on a Beta test for this tool and after finding the application so useful I obtained permission from the software developer to share it with you here. Get your copy and read about the Photographer's Ephemeris here! Many thanks Stephen for sharing this with the photography community!
Shot Notes: light painting by a mega-strong LED flashlight. It was necessary to then change the WB in post to fluorescent (in Capture NX fluorescent daylight or meurcury vapor light are best). I then shot a second exposure for the sky after light painting and combined the two in post.
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Uploaded on Jul 5, 2009
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