Venus and Mars (and Saturn) are Alright Tonight!

11 Wednesday Aug 2010

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All three planets in a ‘V’ shape (and pretty dern close to being an isosceles triangle!), with Venus the brightest at the bottom of the ‘V’, reddish Mars forming the upper-left part of the ‘V’ (just on the edge of a high cloud!), and Saturn as the upper-right part of the ‘V’:

γ Vir of the constellation Virgo is upper left of the image.

Taken on the 70-200 f4.0 IS at 98 mm (100 ISO for 20 seconds). Its rare to have these planets all bunched up in about 8 degrees of sky! And the Crescent Moon joins the party on Thursday night, just in time for the Perseid Meteor Shower!

Sunset with Polarizer and Extender

11 Tuesday Aug 2009

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Just for fun, and as a study in colour:

Sure the Sun itself is blown out, but I like it none-the-less. Handheld with the 70-200 F4 IS with 1.4x Kenko Pro Extender.

General Photography – 2 June, 2006, Pikes Peak, CO

09 Sunday Aug 2009

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A new category for the blog ”General Photography”, basically a ‘whatever I feel like sharing’ theme. These will include the lens-related posts, as well as some that are over on my website (and I think the website will become more music-focused).

Starting things off with one of the favorite shots I took from near the top of Pikes Peak, CO, on a “down day” (i.e. a day with no storm chase opportunities, for you non-chasers) from the 2006 (which was a year with a lot of non-chase “down days” due to a very unfavorable pattern for severe weather).

Had a pretty good day for the adventure, with no convection to deal with (e.g. lightning issues or obscured views). A little haze over the plains of E CO is evident, but spectacular views none-the-less!