Steve Paxton's photos

I got a little down hearted with the results from the Tamron 150-600. So I went old school so I purchased a 300mm F4 AF-S D lens and added my 1.4 converter on the back. this lens has no VR so not very good for day use but perfect for my manual use at night. you are looking at first set of photos In DX mode 630mm from my back yard (Yes my back yard) in the city in city lights. cant wait for Wednesday night to go bush. 19 shots stacked ISO640 30sec. Enjoy the Southern skies.

Tulip festival Nannup

Tulip festival Nannup

Tulip festival Nannup

Tulip festival Nannup

florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1267 they have trunks as they look older is that the difference may be 100 years plus counting the trunk rings as years in length 35 mm only 75mm to top of flower. Note the totally different flower shape these came from Sullivan Rock a different site SAME plant Sub family. florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1273

florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1273 A real wild flower florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/1267

A time of the day any parent / grandparent knows is all learning and enjoyment. just a few shot while we keep the next group safe and sound.

Not worth testing it out while holding a camera.

No it was not rain but buckets. PIP on another day

I bought a plate so I could use the tracker head as a normal tripod. first try out to see just how it worked, Still a great place for a night out... PIP 1 first ever night shoot 2014 PIP 2 Close up of Carina Nebula

4 min Sky tracked 4 min ground untracked and LLL.

This is 56 shots on the tracker plus all the Back files in this case I did 56 to match as well noise Vignetting and Dark frames. A better shot than the first up trial I did an indication the set up works. The difference between the photos is 8 months and Carina has tilted 90 degrees to the right from the first shot I took early in the year.

At the end of the night I put the 14mm on the tracker and took the Milky Way which by this time was right above my head. this is 6 shots stacked together of 4 min exposure time each I went for ten but the dew build up was far too strong on the latters shots. A note I have replaced the laptop edit now I have my desktop back. Enjoy some of outer space.

The Rock sits in a pot full of water to keep the rock wet. the Rock cost me $40 a long time ago my first chance to use it to it max. a local tree in a local rock be interesting to see just how well this does.

One of the Seven trees that come from the front tree . this is my first and only try at a Literati Bonsai.

This has been the major project for the last 3 years. One of the trees that grew from seed. two years ago I got a Rock from Sullivan Rock ( from one of the photo shoots at night)that I thought it would look good planted on(in). First drill a hole 25mm in the granite to put the trunk into and the tap root out the bottom. The rest of them over the rock so it looks like it grew there and soil washed away. For the last few year it has been growing in a large plastic pot. This was done today with a lot of delicacy(help for my wife) as I did not want to cut the roots, just wash the soil away and re-spread out under the rock on the soil. It is not quite as I want it but its a start gives me thinking time over the next 3 years. I did not 100% like the one tree so I put one of the small untrained trees at the back to add some depth as well. the moss came from our swamp and covers the whole surface after much patch work quilt style. This is no longer a pot I can lift on my own it is 650mm long and the tree is 600mm height just the rock alone weighing at 15 kg as well as the pot. Not quite the right pot but I did not want to buy a new pot so this will do. Now it grows and its twin and gets shaped my vision is in front of you just as I had conceived it in my mind.

When my Mother in law passed away we inherited 15 of the Azalea's I chose one for my bonsai collection. I have been watching flowers being destroyed in the hard rain, so first day the rains stopped I brought the tree into the house to get a photograph. enjoy a burst of colour.