TheSkySearchers

JSBach1801 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:28 am Another from Meteor Crater. This was 25 images taken on a full frame Sony with a 50mm lens, merged in Photoshop, and color adjusted mostly with the Camera raw filter. The final image printed at 300 dpi would print to 10 feet by 3 feet! I love panoramas!


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Smashing image Lyle!

JSBach1801 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 10:12 pm What scale?

Dunno what the scale is, 1/10 or 1/12 at a guess.

Juno16 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 10:21 pm

JSBach1801 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:28 am Another from Meteor Crater. This was 25 images taken on a full frame Sony with a 50mm lens, merged in Photoshop, and color adjusted mostly with the Camera raw filter. The final image printed at 300 dpi would print to 10 feet by 3 feet! I love panoramas!


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Smashing image Lyle!

I see what you did there, Jim!

Desert View Watchtower, North Rim Grand Canyon

14 shot panorama

Bronze Eroded Astronaut, a sculpture by Daniel Arsham at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Barneget Lighthouse, NJ
Today

Cacti blooming in our front yard.

Staring through the screen at Roxy the cat.

Odd sand formations on the beach after the storms.
Notice how high the sand is, almost covering a split rail fence.

This was taken back earlier this month not far from Preston, ID, along the Bear River.

JSBach1801 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:00 am This was taken back earlier this month not far from Preston, ID, along the Bear River.


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Gorgeous landscape!
The tree colors are beautiful!

A Sparrow Hawk landed in our back garden today. I don't think the Dove saw him coming!

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:54 pm A Sparrow Hawk landed in our back garden today. I don't think the Dove saw him coming!


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They are amazing to watch. We have a pair frequent our garden. The smaller male usually takes the sparrows and the larger female the doves. We have seen it being mobbed by a large mixed flock of jackdaws and rooks. Which was noisy!

Ylem wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:44 am Odd sand formations on the beach after the storms.
Notice how high the sand is, almost covering a split rail fence.
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So cool. I was struggling to read the scale till I picked out the fence. At first I thought it was huge landscape features like bluffs and canyons.

Hello !

Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 6:54 pm A Sparrow Hawk landed in our back garden today. I don't think the Dove saw him coming!


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Remember me this sparrowhawk having some snack in the garden :
Enjoy !

Fleetwood UK has three lighthouses, one is a wreck out at sea but these are the other two.





Pete

Petrol wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:53 pm Fleetwood UK has three lighthouses, one is a wreck out at sea but these are the other two.





Pete

Both are amazing Pete a very well done to you

Rhoda

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Sad news today that the wonderful Narran Lake nature reserve in NW NSW, Australia has bushfires burning. The lake beds are nesting grounds for tens of thousands of waterbirds, ibis, spoonbill, pelican, egrets and many more. The lake is not permanent, rather a large wetland that only fills when flood waters come down the Narran River from rains in Queensland. The birds follow the flood waters down until they reach these breeding grounds.

This photo taken on a no fires visit in 2008 of a dry claypan with large storm brewing at sunset. Narran Lake itself was about 13km from where we parked the 4wd and we were on our way walking back from the lake to my 4wd parked outside the reserve. We spent much more time at the lake than we'd expected. We saw the storm forming but were not carrying flashlights and were worried that we'd get lost in the dark. So we had this one brief 2 mins stop, to shoot the storm over this claypan at the halfway mark. We got back to my dark grey 4wd at the very end of twilight and could barely see it in the dark even when we were only metres from it. After that experience, I now make a point to always carry a small flashlight in my camera bag and some spare batteries.

Joe

I recently went to the Xmas light show at Dunham Massey, a stately home near Manchester. The highlight of the show was this installation called Mycelium Network, with large numbers of glass fungi connected by fibre-optic cables, in colours that were constantly changing.

Pikaia wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 12:08 pm I recently went to the Xmas light show at Dunham Massey, a stately home near Manchester. The highlight of the show was this installation called Mycelium Network, with large numbers of glass fungi connected by fibre-optic cables, in colours that were constantly changing.

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Nice place to visit on acid.




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