Part-time prevaricator
Today was the start of the blizzard ’round these parts. I took this photo of the lacy snow on my front picture window at about 1:20 PM, after I’d shoveled the walk for a second time.
The snow keeps coming, but not as bad here as other places; I’d be happy, though, if the wind would just die down a bit. I guess that’s what I get for living on the prairie.
Nerdy details: 50mm, f/2.8, 1/4000s, ISO 100.
There wasn’t any aurora visible, but I got 20 minutes worth of Earth’s rotation under a half moon.
The aurora data looked good and the sky was clear, so I packed up my camera—grabbing, at the last minute, my 50mm lens, thinking I’d maybe get some shots of Orion with it—and headed out to find a dark spot.
10 minutes northwest of town, I stopped on the side of a gravel road and got set up. There was a faint haze to the north which, to the camera, was green (my eye saw it as grey). The data showed that there should be a bit more activity in about a half hour, so I started snapping photos. Initially I was taking photos at 10 second exposures. As the night wore on I dropped that to 5 seconds, then 2.5 and finally 2. (I took a few frames at 1 second with my f/1.8 lens, but they were a little darker than I like.)
Here’s the results.
It was even visible in town, if you knew what you were looking at. This photo was taken on my street, just before I went back in the house.
Added: I took a few photos for a panorama to show how wide the show was. This stretches from the west to the east; the road visible on the far left and the far right is, in fact, the same road.
Some of my best photos (well, in my opinion) of the year that was.
Continue reading “Favourite images, 2021″I went about 26km on my bike today. I suspect that’ll be the last ride of 2021.
North of ACC.
I can’t decide which I like better. Do you have a preference?
I went for a bike ride yesterday, and there was no wind to speak of. The river was very calm.
I was hoping for aurora, but it wasn’t there. But the stars keep moving, and so I present these two nights’ trails.
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Some corn at the edge of town, shot right around golden hour.
The photo above is, in fact, a composite of three photos, a handheld HDR composition. The three photos are below.
And then, a sunset.
It’s been a while since I hopped on the bike and rode 20ish km, so today—since it was gorgeous out and all the gravel I’ve got is already in place and tamped—I did just that.
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