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Here and There…Now and Then |
Sunset Over The Sisters
I wouldn’t normally post two sunset photos in a row, especially when they’re so similar, but I couldn’t resist posting this one. We went up onto Pilot Butte again in the evening (along with quite a few others and we were very lucky to find a parking spot). This is a three-shot panorama, taken with my 100mm lens, looking to the west over Broken Top on the left and then South, Middle, and North Sisters.
Saturn
A few days ago we saw Saturn near the moon shortly after moonrise. Since then it’s moved a little ways from the moon. Or more precisely the moon has moved a ways relative to Saturn, since it is moving faster in relation to the earth’s rotation). In any case, I was able to get a pretty good shot of it with my long lens zoomed out to 600mm. This was taken at ISO 3200 at f/7.1 for 1/100 second. It isn’t going to win any awards for photos of planets but it’s at least good enough that you can be sure which planet it is.
The Pond
We were at the farm today with Dorothy and her crew. Their non-profit had two residents the last two weeks and we went up to help them celebrate the end of that. One thing I did that I’ve been meaning to do for a while is identify a bunch of the trees that dad planed in the picnic field. I took latitude and longitude readings on my phone and wrote down the species (if I knew it) or an identifying name and corresponding photographs for those I wasn’t so sure about. I’ll need to come back with a key to the oaks for a couple of them, although I knew more of them than I expected. I’m hoping to make metal tags with information about the trees so this exercise doesn’t have to be repeated.
Later in the day I took this HDR photo of the pond. The color is a little more intense that reality, but it was a very pretty day.