Daily Archives: September 22, 2012
Life – A long Journey….
#266 Pink church
A Sliced Bread Machine: Arriving in Brussels
Sunrise after take-off
Saturday 22nd September 2012, 7.25am (day 394)
There are only so many things you can capture on camera when you spend most of the day on a plane. I know I have done the theme – the picture taken just after take-off from Domodedovo – before, but what the hell, different day, different sunrise, different picture, different beauty.
Nighttime Imaging
North Western Images - photos by Andy Porter
Anytime I have seen images of the night time sky I have always been awed. Viewing the cosmos, seeing the huge number of stars, the strip of the Milky Way stretching across the sky these evoke such a strong feeling…
So, I decided this year to try my hand at capturing a few images. I read up, re-studied my camera instruction manual, got my tripod and cable release and started.
My first effort was of the Cirque of the Towers, in the Wind River Range. The moonlight illuminated the peaks in a perfect light. I was excited!
Warrior Peak, Cirque of the Towers
I did not fully duplicate the fact that I would not be able to see anything through the view finder, and that the camera’s auto-focus would be inoperable.
So, I set the focus manually to infinity, turning the dial all the way to its end.
I was…
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