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#Repost @nightscapades ・・・ 25 Sep 2018. Bioluminescence on Mars 😱 This whole scene looks very eerie, to me. The time was around 3:00 am, and Mars was very low in the southwestern sky. Its reflection was so bright! The bioluminescence in the water was also brilliant, and I wanted to line the two up so that the light from Mars would be reflected in one of the small pools of bio on the sandbar. 👏 There have been several photos that I’ve posted where I’ve mentioned my amazement that the light from a celestial object, so far away from us, is still strong enough to penetrate our atmosphere and then be reflected off some wet surface. Being able to pair that amazement with my excitement at photographing bioluminescence for the first time was worth all of the failed shots that it took to get this one. Failing is one of the many great things about digital photography, though. Learning from a failed photo is way cheaper and requires so much less time in the digital realm that it ever did in the film days. 📷 This photograph is a single-frame image that I shot with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, a Rokinon 24mm lens @ f/2.4, for a 15-second exposure @ ISO 6400. • • • • • @astro_photography_ @space @universe247 @photographerfocus #astro_photography_ #astronomy #astrophotography #darkskyshots #elitelongexposures #fantastic_universe #globalpixels #ig_astrophotography #ig_shutterworld #night_shooterz #nightimages #nightphotography #nightscape #nightscapeoz #nightscaper #nightshooters #stargazing #startalkradio #timelessuniverse #universe #universetoday #WeOwnTheNight_IG #night_excl #StargazingABC #super_longexpo #mars #bioluminescence @eurobodalla https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQMmMUB_5c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mijohf6oj1ey

While riding my bike along a dirt road with on my left and right fields filled with corn and potatoes there I felt glad to be alive! The countryside of the Dutch province of Drenthe provides us with so much beauty in which I am allowed to travel! Coming out of a bend in the road I spotted some white growing in a ditch and as I came closer it was the most amazing looking flower! I didn’t had to use my brakes because the sand underneath my tires had become that loose I couldn’t ride it anyway! After my feet hit the dirt I stood there awhile admiring the awesome plant before snapping a shot so you all can enjoy its beauty also! I’m off see you!! #nature #自然 #naturegram #instanature #naturelovers #naturebeauty #flowers #花 #flowerstagram #flower #instaflower #wildflowers #dutchflowers #荷兰花 #ig_discover_holland #globalpixels #nederland #netherlands #荷兰 #rural_love #travel #旅行 #travelblogger #traveler #nationaalparkdrentscheaa #weekend #love #爱 #mooidrenthe #ig_today (bij Loon, Drenthe, Netherlands)

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#Repost @nightscapades ・・・ 09 Aug 2018. Bend and stretch, reach for the stars 📆 The end of Milky Way season for 2018 is still a few months away for us here in the Southern Hemisphere, but I am starting to fret about how many more chances I’ll get to photograph my favourite part of the night sky. When I shot this scene at 9:30 pm last Saturday night, the Milky Way’s core had passed overhead, and the rich band of stars, dust and gas that gives our home galaxy its name was now into the western half of the sky. In a month’s time, the stars will be in this position at 7:30 pm. With Daylight Saving cutting in during the first weekend of October, the same view will occur at 6:30 pm but the sun won’t have set yet. Time marches on too quickly! 🌲🌌🌲 I’ve made use of poplars to frame the Milky Way in several shots over the past four years, and I continue to find them useful for that. The warped perspective from using a wide-angle lens seems to be bending the trees towards the mass of light and gravitational attraction present in the galactic core. The location, southwest of Nowra, Australia, was another gem with clear skies, no wind and only three cars passing me in the two hours that I was lurking in the dark with my camera. I just managed to sneak Jupiter into the right-hand edge of the shot, but Mars and its blazing orange light dominate the relatively empty section of sky at the top left. This shot doesn’t quite nail the alignment I was after, and I didn’t manage to get the lighting even across all of the poplars, so I hope you find beauty and interest in it. 📷 For each of the five photos in this vertical panorama I used the following: Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, Samyang 14mm XP lens @ f/2.8, 25-second exposure @ ISO 6400. • • • • • @astro_photography_ @space @universe247 @photographerfocus #astro_photography_ #astronomy #astrophotography #darkskyshots #fantastic_universe #globalpixels #ig_astrophotography #night_shooterz #nightimages #nightphotography #nightscape #nightscapeoz #nightscaper #stargazing #startalkradio #timelessuniverse #universe #universetoday #night_excl #StargazingABC #super_longexpo #milkyway #galaxy #WOTN_MilkyWay #MilkyWayChasers #Poplars @sout

I’m pretty much wondering who’s wondering about what and why? Is he wondering why we’re all different colors? Are they wondering what’s that he’s aiming at us? I’m wondering if they are indeed wondering who I am and what I’m doing? Wonderful, isn’t it? That’s something you do not have to wonder about!! #sunset #日落 #sunsets #sunsetlovers #sunset_pics #unlimitedsunset #landscape #风景 #scape_captures #landscapehunter #landscape_lovers #landscapephotography #nature #自然 #naturegram #instanature #naturelovers #naturephotography #rural_love #countryside #netherlands #荷兰 #mooidrenthe #globalpixels #animals #cow #牛 #sunshine #tree #ig_discover_holland (bij Balloërveld)

#Repost @nightscapades ・・・ 28 Apr 2018. Massive! 😱 The Milky Way is big. Very big. In fact, it’s massive! To try to convey some of that vastness to you I chose a “standard” focal-length lens to take this photo of the Milky Way’s core rising over the Tasman Sea, on Australia’s east coast. Lots of nightscape photos are captured with wide-angle lenses, which have focal-lengths of 14mm, 24mm and the like. For something different, though, I like to shoot with longer lenses from time to time, especially when this is the result. 🌌 It’s a photo that, in all humility, made me say “wow” out loud when I looked at it on my camera’s preview screen. Seeing the number of stars that the camera captured light from, as well as the gigantic dust lanes and dark gas clouds that block out light from just as many stars again, it was hard not to be amazed at the sight of it seemingly rising from the ocean. Creation is full of innumerable wonders like this, and it’s a huge privilege to be able to photograph a few of them. 📷 This single-frame image was taken with a Canon EOS 6D camera, through a Canon 50mm STM lens @ f/2.8, using an 8-second exposure @ ISO 12800. Noise and star reduction were carried out using the Photoshop action-packs “EasyNR” and “MiniSTARS”, both available from @photographingspace • • • • • #astro_photography_ #astronomy #astrophotography #darkskyshots #elitelongexposures #fantastic_universe #globalpixels #ig_astrophotography #ig_shutterworld #night_shooterz #nightimages #nightphotography #nightscape #nightscapeoz #nightscaper #nightshooters #stargazing #startalkradio #timelessuniverse #universe #universetoday #WeOwnTheNight_IG #night_excl #StargazingABC #super_longexpo #milkyway #galaxy #WOTN_MilkyWay #MilkyWayChasers #MilkyWayGrams

23 Apr 2018. One broken, one dead 🤷🏼‍♂️ I can’t count the number of times that I’ve been driving and seen, out of the corner of an eye, something that’s grabbed hold of me and almost begged to be featured in a photograph. Back in 2003 when I visited Western Michigan in winter, I was continually noticing things to include in photos, in particular, a cemetery that was blanketed by snow. My friend Clare, who was hosting my visit, asked “why do you want to take photos of a cemetery? You have cemeteries back home in Australia, don’t ya?”. My reply to him was “yeah, but ours aren’t covered in snow”. 🌌 🌲 Glimpsing these two trees–one alive but broken, and the other long-dead–as I drove down this country road on Sunday night, I knew I had to turn back and include them in a photograph with the rising core of the Milky Way. It was only just in time, though, as the clouds that are fringing the top of the shot covered the whole eastern sky in mere minutes after I snapped off the last of five frames for the night. Out-of-shot and to the left there was a bright orange street light, marking the nearby rural junction that is often shrouded in fog at this time of year. It took a lot of work in Lightroom to remove that horrible yellow stain from the photo. 🌌 A single-frame photo, shot with Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 24mm @ f/2.4, 13 sec @ ISO 6400. • • • • • @astro_photography_ @space @universe247 #astro_photography_ #astronomy #astrophotography #darkskyshots #elitelongexposures #fantastic_universe #globalpixels #ig_astrophotography #ig_shutterworld #night_shooterz #nightimages #nightphotography #nightscape #nightscapeoz #nightscaper #nightshooters #stargazing #startalkradio #timelessuniverse #universe #universetoday #WeOwnTheNight_IG #night_excl #StargazingABC #super_longexpo # (at Toolijooa)

09 Apr, 2018. A shining sea of stars 🚢 🌊 Way out to sea and just over the horizon a cargo ship moves down the coast, its lights seeming to answer the fluorescent spill from a street light near the photographer’s position. The endless thud of waves crashing over the rocks beats a slow rhythm to mark time for the stars of the Milky Way as they make their nightly crawl across the roof of the sky. 🌌 In my late childhood and early teen years, I spent lots of hours clambering over these rocks with my siblings, looking for shells, driftwood & unusual pebbles during holiday times. The location is Tuross Head, on the southeast coast of my state of New South Wales, Australia. My children, now in their twenties, have also enjoyed many holidays at this place of peace and relaxation. None of them nor my wife have ever joined me on an outing to see and photograph the wonders of the night sky, either here or anywhere else. They’re missing out on so much! 📷 This image is a single-frame photograph, captured with a Canon EOS 6D MkII camera, a Rokinon 24mm lens @ f/2.4, with a 13-second exposure @ ISO 6400. • • • • • @astro_photography_ @space @universe247 #astro_photography_ #astronomy #astrophotography #darkskyshots #elitelongexposures #fantastic_universe #globalpixels #ig_astrophotography #ig_shutterworld #night_shooterz #nightimages #nightphotography #nightscape #nightscapeoz #nightscaper #nightshooters #stargazing #startalkradio #timelessuniverse #universe #universetoday #WeOwnTheNight_IG #night_excl #StargazingABC #super_longexpo #milkyway #galaxy #WOTN_MilkyWay #MilkyWayChasers #MilkyWayGrams @eurobodalla (at Tuross Head, New South Wales)