This photo was made from 82, 30 second exposures at ISO 2000 and f/4.5.
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Star Trails As Seen From Beauty Mountain
This photo was made from 82, 30 second exposures at ISO 2000 and f/4.5.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
The Milky Way As Seen From Beauty Mountain
Kim and Molly asked me the other day what I wanted for my birthday. I said I wanted to go rock climbing, go out to eat and go somewhere and get some star trail photos. So Friday we headed up to the New River and climbed around the Junkyard Wall area for about four hours, then went to eat. Nothing fancy, just the DQ in Fayetteville, but it was gooood. Then we headed out to Beauty Mountain to watch the sunset and wait for the stars to come out.
Before I set my camera to start making the photos that would make up my star trail photo (I'll post it tomorrow) I made some photos showing the Milky Way. This is my favorite. I wish there was less light pollution in the area, but I like how it turned out anyway.
Ever since I was a little boy I've loved looking up at the night sky. Even today, as soon as I walk outside at night my head automatically turns up to the heavens.
I did some research on the size of our Milky Way and here are some of the basics about it. The Milky way is 100,000 light years across (light travels 5.88 trillion miles in a year). In comparison to the Milky Way, our solar system with it's eight planets and sun would be the size of a quarter laid somewhere on the North American continent. Amazing!
The closest star that we can see with the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere is Sirius. It's just one of the 100's of billions of stars that make up the Milky Way. Sirius is almost twice the size of the Sun and it’s the brightest star in the sky. It's 8.6 light-years away!
Click here and here to watch a couple of videos of Louie Giglio describing the awesomeness of our universe.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
More Senior Pictures
Softball themed this time. If you look close in the top photo, you can see my reflection in her eyes.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
An Ocean Without Waves
I couldn't decide which version I liked better, so I put up both. This is a 50 second exposure at f/16 and ISO 100 with a 10 stop neutral density filter.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Marsh Stars
Here's another attempt at photographing star trails. I went out to the marsh boardwalk on Hunting Island Saturday evening. It was cool, but humid and the bugs...THE BUGS!!!! I just set my camera up on the boardwalk and let it run while I went back and sat in the van away from THE BUGS. I only ended up with about 40 good photos because some fog rolled in and got on my lens and made everything hazy.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Firehouse Cookin'
A couple of the guys went to the store yesterday to buy stuff for dinner and they were having trouble deciding what to get. They ran through a whole bunch of dinner combos and finally came up with this. They just came up with the recipe while they were there in the store and to my knowledge this has never been made at the firehouse before. I'm not 100% sure of all the ingredients, but I'll hit most of 'em.
Here goes; Homemade mac & cheese with Velveeta queso blanco cheese on the bottom, a sloppy joe mix made with ground chicken for the middle layer, then a can of Pillsbury grands biscuits on top and then just for good measure, some shredded cheese on top of that. Mama!!!
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Winter Star Trails
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