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This morning we had a partial (76%) solar eclipse as dawn broke over New Zealand, so I was of course out there to try to capture it. I was stymied by a bit of cloud during parts of the event, but it was clear for much of it. I had three cameras going, two focused on the sun itself (see my post...

Hi all, I'm new to this site and also am new to the world of solar imaging, so apologies if this is all rather amateurish! Last May, I attended a dark skies forum near where I live in the South Island of New Zealand, and there one of the participants brought along something I'd never seen in...

Late day light along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park

I had stopped to shoot the glistening water as we drove from the beach to have dinner in Bandon when this bird flew by and I luckily included it.

I got my drone up today for some views of my favorite spot on the OR coast. More to come.

**** Don't forget to visit our Video Forum where many of us are posting really cool video's and timelapses. Make it a daily part of your viewing to encourage us by visiting the Video's each day to see what's new. ***** From Sunday evening at Pfieffer Beach in Big Sur. It was a fun day of...

Or something like that. :) This is from up in Northern California along the I-5 as I was driving south, having spent the previous 4 days in Washington and Oregon. The sun ends up turning into simply a Red Ball bouncing up in the sky. The smoke from the clouds is so thick, you can safely look...

Here is one form a while ago - a pano from Independence Pass in Colorado, and one of those gorgeous weather days. Hopefully as a pano it shows OK, no doubt better if you click thru to the full gallery version. LRCC_sRGB_FW_IndependencePass_LR3_IMG_6795_stitch2 by Mike Lewis posted Mar 25, 2020...

I took my shot at it this morning. Dark dot in front of sun... check!

This didn't look like much in Bridge, my A7r2 exposed right made the sky look blown, but some heavy PP brought out the clouds.

I drove over to the east side of the lake to catch sunset with the drone a couple days ago. DJI MP2, RAW Pano stitched in ACR

In the previous thread I replayed to Alan (great photo IMHO) about taking a photo at midday light but I myself lost again and surrendered to that magic light yesterday at my hometown beach. To be honest I was so happy to be there after a while. C&C are welcome as always.

Taken above my house with DJI M2P drone. 5 shots blended to deal with noise.

Heron on a rock Sunset

Drone view from above my house this morning. After reading about dealing with noise in photos from my DJI MP2 I took 5 shot bursts today, layered, stacked as smart object, blended with median, flattened, then took the resulting images which were largely free of noise back into PS to stitch in...

Our Focus this week might be a little harder to find. It's going to Focus on those Landscape Photos where the Sun is actually in the Photo. Usually we avoid shooting directly into the sun unless we are going for sun stars. Now sun stars are okay for our Focus today, but I am sure there are...

Drone view with Olympic mountains in the background.

The morning fog complemented the sunrise above my house (drone view) this morning. Home-drone-sunrise-5.16.19-01-Pano by Jim Dockery posted May 16, 2019 at 8:47 AM

I am still struggling to recover from my recent loss, so apologies for being a virtual no show for the last week. I decided perhaps posting something could get me going again. So here is a shot from 2017, from a drive to San Diego from the Lake Havasu area. This is along CA highway 78, with the...

I've been getting up and over to a different side of the lake to fly the drone and capture the sunrise. This is from 3/11/19.