Ava, enjoying a Monet
Travel
Tower, Eiffel, Paris, France
Tunnel
Into the tunnel on a morning ride, part of a detour here in BTV while they improve the lakefront bike path.
Kittens
Snoozing kittens, who usually hang out in the office behind me most of the day.
White Rocks
A short hike with Greg and the Pup. Cold, late fall and late for the season cold. We set out to do the White Rocks / Hunger Mountain loop – but the pup was shivering as we neared the top of White Rocks – so we back tracked.
Hunger was in low lying clouds – so we made a good choice, regardless, especially after retreating to Red Hen for coffee and breakfast.
The Farm Barn
Some days its hard to believe that our kids go to school in the lower level of this fantastic barn. Shot at Shelburne Farms, VT from Sheeps Knoll on a lovely morning with a dynamic sky.
The Bridge
This is a stitched image – I took 13 images in landscape orientation and rotated them around on a panorama head from one end of the bridge to the other. South is on top, north on the bottom. Montreal to the north is lighting up the sky with light pollution and air glow. Lights from the boathouse to the south are lighting up the trees and the bridge. I learned a ton setting this up and shooting it… got to the bridge at 4:45 am, just a short ride from the house. Setup the tripod, panorama head, and did a few test shots. Camped out as I rotated the camera through the range, using a remote shutter to take the snap, and making sure to not move the tripod, or tweak anything I as I took the images. I processed in Lightroom and then stitched as TIFFs in PTGui.
Attempts were Made
Bikes, cameras, and attempting to get trailing lights on the bridge captured on my wide angle lens at 4am this morning.
Flash set to fire on the rear curtain, I brought an old remote trigger and the antennae broke on my first pass. All secondary attempts were done by setting up a timer and long shutter duration. After a dozen attempts I packed up, came home and made coffee.
Processing Orion
Astro processing software / image manipulation is a rabbit hole I don’t think I want to fall down. But, as I have a propensity for suffering – I am giving PixInsight a test drive. Mostly fumbling around in the dark, much like I do with the camera. From the looks of many of the tutorials I’d have to spend several late nights a week for several months to scratch the surface.
This image is 44 separate raw files calibrated (I think) and registered (I think) then combined into 1 composite (see the ridge and lake images blurred as the stack was aligned and calibrated). I then brought the file back into Lightroom to adjust the brightness, contrast, etc.
Orion, Reflection, Silver Lake
A quick vertical pano stitch in Lightroom of 2 wide angle shots from this morning.
