Zenith by Brian Truono Photography The sun’s rays reach over the horizon gently lighting the peak of High Dune. Sparkling shimmers appear on the previous night’s frost and grain-sized quartz sand. We began our hike in the cold darkness and trudged our way to the peak of High Dune in the Great Sand Dunes National Park, arriving a few short moments before the sun crested the Sangre De Cristo range to the east. http://flic.kr/p/BRhquv
“Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.”
― John Muir
photo: daybreak – divinenature
Skypointer by skypointer2000 Quite an obvious choice of name for this image….
I learned the hard way how difficult it is to stand absolutely still for 25s and point to the stars, after quickly climbing a rock, while your cameras self-timer is relentlessly counting down the seconds.
Furthermore, the headlamp needs to point in the right direction: The beam may neither touch the arch, nor the arm or hand, as this hopelessly overexposes those sections of the image.
I eventually pulled it off, but don’t ask how many tries I needed.
And when I finally did everything right, I probably stood there like an idiot for at least a minute, not knowing when the 25s had elapsed.
Sometimes a louder shutter would be an advantage…
The KING by beniamino_lai Fantastica alba sulla spiaggia di CEA, situata tra Bari sardo e Tortolì, foto pensata per un pò di tempo e alla fine portata a casa grazie a una situazione di luce veramente ottima. http://flic.kr/p/BFZoNx
Mono Lake Moonset and Milky Way by skypointer2000 During my second trip to California this year (lucky me), I was visiting Mono Lake. Of course I could not resist to photograph the South Tufas at night.
On a very cold and windy evening, three days after new moon, I arrived at South Tufa right at sunset. Most people were about to leave when I arrived and soon I was the only soul around. There were quite a few clouds, but my weather app said it would be clearing up soon. So I scouted for a good spot to setup my tripod and waited for the night to fall, the moon to set and the clouds to disappear. The time was used to setup some lights to statically light paint the foreground tufas.
Soon the clouds really parted and I was able to see the milky way visually even though the moon was still above the horizon, but fortunately hidden by a low cloudbank.
So I fired my camera not believing it would yield a usable image, as according to theory it was still way to bright for milky way photography. The result surely proves me wrong. While the core of the milky way is easily visible, the setting moon gives the sky a nice blue hue and the parting clouds seem to mirror the tufas in the sky.
1 x 25s @ ISO 3200 for the sky
5 x 25s @ ISO 3200 stacked for the foreground
5 dark frames subtracted http://flic.kr/p/ynx41t
Milky Way: the mystery look under the cloudy veil by logical_j http://flic.kr/p/zDuouk
💙 sunset on 500px by jedi
☀ NIKON D300S-f/10-1s-12mm-iso200, 2810✱4228px-rating:88.6
◉ Photo location: Google Maps
💙 sunset on 500px by jedi
☀ NIKON D300S-f/10-1s-12mm-iso200, 2810✱4228px-rating:88.6
◉ Photo location: Google Maps
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