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AuroraIt was disappointing to miss the spectacular northern lights last Mother's Day, but here are some from a recent family camping trip Downeast. I was packing light so only brought a Nikkor 18 mm f/3.5 AIS lens for the D750 and the 15-45mm for the Fuji. All images are processed RAW files set to Daylight white balance in Lightroom 6.14. Just after sunset:
Keep watch for the Big Dipper in many of the aurora images. Many times you will see the Milky Way again and you might catch a few meteors although I missed the brightest.
The next of from the main part of the campground (Cobscook Bay State Park).
We couldn't see these colors, but we could see streaks and a brightness in the sky. It took the long exposure of the camera to reveal the aurora.
From the campsite:
The next night the aurora wasn't quite as bright, but it was still nice.
And the last image over the playground.
This one seems to have a part of the trail of a meteor. There are a couple more experimental images that aren't posted here. If there is interest, I can post another.
Solar Eclipse 2024
Test photo April 8, 2024 at 12:22 pm It was decided to drive as far north in New Hampshire as traffic would allow. And, really, there was no traffic on our drive north so we ended up where I really wanted, at the Third Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, just south of the Canadian border and almost exactly in the middle of totality for the solar eclipse. The boat launch had quite a number of people so we drove a little further north, put on snowshoes, and walked down through the trees and out onto the ice of the lake. If you stayed close to shore, you couldn't see anyone else. We lugged our gear down, ate lunch, and set up. Actually I placed the tripod when first getting there so the warmth of the day would melt it down into the snow. Before taking photos I was able to push the legs down through to the ice. It was a beautiful warm day: clear, low breezes, and temperature in the 50's F.
1:42 pm We had 4 cameras, a Nikon D7200 with Tamron 70-300 lens and StarGuys solar filter on the tripod. The lens had been focused on a previous clear night on the stars. The Nikon D750 had a 24-120 Nikon lens setup for scenics. And there were 2 Fuji mirrorless cameras.
2:22 pm
2:52 pm
Eventually I set the Nikon D7200 to autobracket at 5 frames. The dual cards were set to duplicate RAW files. There was a lot of exposure experimentation.
3:17 pm
3:26 pm
3:27 pm, almost gone. The breezes disappeared and the temperature dropped noticeably.
3:29 pm
3:29 Totality.
3:29m pm with Venus.
3:31 pm with prominences visible.
3:31 looking toward the south and a star or planet visible.
3:31 pm
3:32 pm, the filter is back on the lens.
3:33 pm, the planet is still visible.
3:44 pm
3:49 pm, looking northward.
4:09 pm
4:14 pm
4:19 pm, looking southward again. See the snowmen?
4:23 pm
4:36 pm
4:38 pm, the end of the moon's shadow. Time to pack up and head home. There was a lot of traffic at each town with a major intersection. Has Errol ever seen such a line of traffic? When and where is the next one?
SummertimeBacklight Queen Anne's lace in Fryeburg Harbor.
The slides on Langdon Brook in Center Chatham, NH.
Sunsets colored by Canadian smoke. The first shows the flooded fields of Fryeburg Harbor. And the White Mountains are in the back of both of these.
And, yes, some gravel biking.
Fireworks at the Mount Washington HotelJuly 4 fireworks at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Here is the scene before the display started.
A Photographer's Day On Paris HillIf you happened to be on Paris Hill (Maine) this morning, you got to hear the rumble of a 1936 Duesenberg SJN Convertible Sedan by Rollston driving around as part of a photo session for the Hamlin Memorial Library's 2024 calendar. To see the final photos, be sure to get your calendar at this year's Founder's Day on July 15 or from the Library's website. Until then, see some outtakes below.
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