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Steve Paxton's photos
Salt Head
Into the distance
Twins
Last Light
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Cloud free forecast total cloud cover so I left my astro lens at home to save weight , so I had to use the 16-35mm F4 for a second time I am happy to say passed with flying colours. This shows you what happens if you dont allow enough time after sunset for the last rays of sunshine to leave the atmosphere while I walked here know what time was astro night, nature shows us we dont always know every thing . the very next bow I took all the sunlight is gone from the shot and was a normal night shot but I posted this one as its both different and a lesson. I could not see the light but the camera could...
Enjoy some thing I was not expecting.
Bird on a Wire HFF
Interior Magistrats Cottage
Magistrates house
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynton,_Western_Australia
It may be what looks like a house but is a very small one room and a fire place.
Cell
Cell Block
Down town Kalbarri -HFF
No easy Life
Clouds
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Preston Beach Milky Way- never give in
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My first clear night in months sun goes down 7:36pm, Moon rises 9:17 pm, Milk Way is gone by 10:00pm below the horizon add to that 8 pm the Milky Way will start to show up as the sun light has left the sky. the city and surround was shrouded in smoke from burn off fires in the hill and in parts of the city bush. I was going to pull out but I thought if I never go I never know. to add to the problems when we got to the car park there was a huge light lighting the whole area as day light for all the late picnickers( tops of the dunes)cut out on the left side, to add to the problems all the 4WD fishermen came home at this time as it was reaching high tide from the right of photo all 12 of them and not at the same time.
This Milky Way Bow was shot not left to right but right to left as soon as all the cars got off the beach as fast as I could to get a clean set of shots. by this time this was the 5th Bow I had started and only one finished with out a stop.
This was a 100km trip each way which also benefited as we got out of the smoke which blotted out the Sun at sunset, this may be my last for the year. enjoy despite all the problems, only The third time my wife has seen the Milky Way.
Emu Sitting on a tree. 2016
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I have spent my clouded nights redoing and looking back at old photos shot from the very start to the present. this is a two shot horizontal vertical Panorama From Sullivan Rock. from my early days as a astro photographer and full of dreams. Stars and silhouettes works so well. It was cold but clear....
Sea Change
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In protest to all the cloud, rain and missed opportunities this year a panorama I did forget. Pieter is on the water edge capturing the Bow over the sea, I went for the path down to the beach and the dunes either side. this was our last look at the milky way before we came home well after 1 am. I hope this is not my last this year but it is getting very close to the end of the season this year.
Historic Fremantle HFF
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Dragon On the Bonsai Wisteria
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This year I have no flowers it has just come into leaf , I hope its just this year moving to a warmer part of town and I repotted into a larger pot. PIP is a few years ago.
Chinese Elm- Bonsai
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A tree that is a 30 years old after being the cafe lots of branches died back so they got cut off. So for the last 6 years it remake the tree all over again. Bonsai is a none stop enjoyment and accepting changes a living with the tree through the seasons and years. This tree in all the years I have had it within a week after the shortest day of the year it start to come out in leaf not the typical spring time.
