Steve Paxton's photos

The front door of one with the date plaque on it. these are very slowly being restored back to the way the where so they can be rented out. living in the heart of Fremantle.

The Fremantle prison fremantleprison.com.au/history-heritage/history/a-brief-history is just behind these building's. these where built to house the warders of that prison. Built in 1858 by prison inmates.

Been part of the early morning Rain, This one happened to have a touch of sun light as well. You can see the trees that stop the mount working in the mornings to the right.

This was the Tunnel dug under the Round house for whales, but if you read the link that just may be another old wives tale in the city. fremantlestuff.info/buildings/whalerstunnel.html The Run down Tunnel has been restrenghtened and closed in parts to hold back the crumbling soft lime stone. the Pips show some of the views of the roundhouse and surrounds. the two in the middle look down the same street but from each end...

My first try with the new chip that was put in the camera to replace the broken usb. I was sent a QHY183M mono chip not the QHY183C Colour chip caused all sorts of problems in the end this camera getting found is now know as QHY183M but takes coloured photos. I lost a whole lot of time with the camera Changes and setting up. This is in effect only 33 shots But happy the way it came out. QHY183C -10c 33 shot 10 min Prima Luce Essato Focus Optolong LeNhance filter, Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Guided PHD2, SGP Pixinsight, Ps.

a cool Tuesday morning walking with the Grand children looking for hidden lego about Fremantle.

This is the end result of starting End Of April Finished to12/7/2022. what started out as a look at the area I have been taking photos for years. There is a host of PIPs from all the parts I have taken over the last few years. To get this completed this is the third iteration getting the over lap correct so it finished first was 12% , and second was 23% but in the end I could see the panels walking away from each other as I shot so settled for 45%. So the true start was early in April getting this part correct so it finished. Added to this I went from an easy Rotation Error of 5 degrees to a very small 1.5 degree. Even last night at 11:53pm at flip the camera had to be rotated 1.8 degrees after flip to finish out the night. I thought the best way to tell you Milky Way core is 53 shots per night X 22 panels = 1166 shot or x 10min exposure time.. = 11660 minutes of exposure to get the whole thing or divide by 60min gives you hours. = 194 hours or divide by 22 nights =8.81 hours a night shooting, not to get you confused...at all. The result of two sequences and 22 panels (11 panels long)each panel a night shooting, The Tiff is 22653 x 8024 1.01 GB, Jpeg is 176Mb the shot here is under 25mb. The end was I thought my first sequence finished where I wanted to but I was way out by 6 more panels to get below the Eagle Nebula. I thought Bonsai taught me patience but this has been a very long set of shots trying to get clear nights to get each panel between clouds and rain. The march across the milky way as I took it stated with far right to left as the Milky Way rose in the sky:- Fighting Dragons, Prawn , Cats Paw, Lobster, Dark horse ( bottom half only), Snake, Lagoon and Trifid, Horse Shoe, Swan and Eagle. Enjoy the milky way like I have never seen before This will be entered in this years Astro fest. ZWOASI071MC -10 53 shots each of the 22 nights 10min rotated to error of 1.5 degrees. Optolong LeNhance filter, Nikon 105 mm f2.8 G Lens Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned Guided PHD2, SGP Pixinsight, PTGui, Ps, Lr.

the shot of simple colours..

This is all over the two fences.

The fence ( underneath the vine is the same as this) has come into flower The Plant is Pyrostegia Venusta orange Trumpet vine. this is the same sort of fence underneath the vine. when we moved in.

You want to know what tough is. this group where sitting out in full sun got cooked December last year with a 45c degree day. I had thought I had lost every thing but kept the group before I went to NZ I saw that the plant had taken a hit the top leaves did not turn green but opened out to the normal Rosset formation than the closes tight leaves. On return with all the rains we have had the plants have sent out side branches first and the tops have come back to life. almost all the top leaves had fallen off. The Drosera I thought was totally cooked with the 45c and bare in mind the plants sit on a plate of granite and at max amount of soil in the middle is 40mm deep out in full sun all DAY long..... In the 4 years I have had this plant I have removed all the seeds but on return I noted one seed head that was laying on the moss has two seeds sprouted. I have left it as it is and watch and wait to see what happens. In the background I have an empty bonsai pot of soil I have put seed heads in the soil to see if I get a whole new group. This is a a watch and see and more than a huge learning curve.. AS TOUGH As Nails does not even come close to describe this little plant. Very few would even know about this plant who live in Perth.

At the end of the day coming back home as the sun was setting the city center and the Sky tower stood out. The Sunset is behind me this is the approaching dark.

As I was taking these photos at the end of the day in the Long shadows of the setting sun. Frank came up to me and said he had never had his photo taken. I left this and the photo I took of Frank with my niece to print out and send to the address he wrote out.

See if you can find the spider webs.

In The Late Afternoon Sun, the Jetty I could not get a photo from all locked up.

One of the Stunning home from the early day of Auckland.

As the Long Shadows Gather