Steve Paxton's photos

On a day teaching Newbies how to take night photos we get blown out . i had to hold camera hard to the jetty rather than use the tripod.

you have heard the song 'Yellow Moon' here is the moon as it was.

the iconic string of pearls in the blue hour. you can just see all the works around the tower.

I went in to get the shot of the Super moon next to the Freo Clock tower only to find the tower covered in scaffolding and sheeting. So plan B the top only.

Have you ever tried to catch the impossible. Cape Naturalist Light house has two Beams that are 10sec apart easier said than done. work in progress yet to be revisited but part of a great night.

The clouds all rolled away so it ended up a colourless sunset.

A shot i was glad my wife was not about to see how steep and how small the area was to even get close . Biggest part was to get the tripod to stand it was so steep but the true Bonsai could not go unrecognised in the stars. do open large.

All night long the streaks showed up in the photos three in the shot one above Venus and two on the right of Sugar Loaf.

Sugar Loaf Rock at the very western edge of WA as the Milky way slips away till next year. 9 shot panorama This is best view full size on black background

One of the very few places there is deciduous tree around this area.

My street tree in the front of our house. started 14 years ago from the normal Chinese Elm the council planted in our area. while not perfect i tried to work with what i have. there is no other tree in the whole area that is the same always creates a lot of looks. the branches are being trained in a certain position hence the ropes to hold them. only can bring you this shot now with a 14mm lens because of the fence in the front of our yard.

15 year old plant , sorry the heavenly scent is not captured.

10 years on Granite platter Natural Rock.

1 years on 20 kg granite platter from one of my bush photo sites.

Some thing very old and some thing quite new but still old.

First ever try at a multi row shot of the Milky Way Bow, nothing auto about this all done on manual head. Enjoy this 1/5 the size of the original. Lighting was not perfect in this shot worth a look at the larger version. More learning gives this better version. www.ipernity.com/doc/1073393/42347646 single row version from the same shots.

The question is it worth travelling out into the real Darkness, this experiment in the city light loom but looking away due west and hidden from the lights you can see the sky still shows the effect of light. to the left Mandurah and the Right is the Kiwinana industrial strip where the rock got its lighting from. Better out in the Blackness more detail.