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It happened to me again today. It happens a lot. Automatic sink faucets and towel dispensers rarely are able to see me. I just spent a minute trying to wave my hands frantically under 2 different restroom faucets to get water to flow. Then I could not get a paper towel to dispense at 2...

I will be having a go at some Orion images I shot in 2021 at 90mm. I did a stack of them back then and stretched as much as I thought I could. But I did not have the star-removal tools at the time for separating the nebula background from the stars. Trevor here is working at some old images...

Started right away on New Years Day. Not greatness, but we can build to that as the year progresses. It was very cloudy, the Wisconsin River is not frozen over, very few eagles about. What I captured was all happening pretty far away and I had to crop in a lot. I believe these 2 eagles were...

I was driving by on a foggy day and this scene caught my eye. Only had a Lumix DMC-ZS6 with me to take the photos. But this is one of the older Panasonic cameras with the Leica-designed lenses. Stitched panorama was my best plan.

A small story, could be in progress. I watched a TV news story last week prior to Thanksgiving of a peregrine falcon that had spent the past 2 months being rehabilitated in a special pen and was released into the wild at a local Audubon Society bird sanctuary. Easy drive to try to photograph. I...

I was looking over some scans of negatives I started 18 years ago. I still have all of my high school photography class projects from 1982. Now I am not really proud of any of it. I pretty much was slapped down by my teacher who did not really like my work. Forty years later, yeah it was mostly...

The indicators are pretty good for aurora tonight. They are already getting photos in Europe and sharing on my aurora app. Odds are with the moon out tonight also you would not see anything with your bare eyes (until the moon sets anyhow). You can use night mode on a cellphone to confirm if...

Some shots from a park I stopped at for lunch. I'm always looking out for neat places like this when I drive around for my job.

Shot shortly after midnight in southern Wisconsin: May 11, 2024

Looks like it's all about wifi connection security. Meh.

Before we get the forum littered with everyone's eclipse photos, how about we get a thread for them all? I have 2 to start with. However I only have begun going through my photos. I made mistakes, but I also did some stuff right. I was in Benton, Illinois for this one. Northeast of Carbondale...

After ending 2023 on a high note, let's drop the expectations down a bit to begin 2024. Unable to get a view of eagles in the fog at a new spot. Tried a landscape shot instead.

Looks like you want to update before it's too late. • Fixed an issue that in rare circumstances resulted in the camera failing to turn on if it had not been used for an extended period.

This image is only a proof-of-concept at this stage. I'm hoping to get pictures of the sun on another day with even more active sunspots. My idea here was to just do a sky replacement. Sun shot with a dark solar filter. And I did this manually with a photo I took of the sky at the same 600mm...

https://www.space.com/brian-may-launches-astrophotography-competition The subject is Solar System objects on this. We are in prime season for photographing Saturn and near prime for Jupiter. So I think somebody with a very nice Newtonian or other reflector telescope is going to walk away with...

It's astrophotography, but definitely not nightime or low-light. This is another practice run for next April's solar eclipse. I will do another run on a less-hot day and try to dial in my tracking telescope mount without having any stars to align to (besides the sun). This is with Z5, Sigma...

Walked outside to a business parking lot and found this hawk easily close enough to throw a rock at. I only had my cellphone or my Lumix DSC-ZS6 superzoom point-n-shoot. The Panasonic is much easier to shoot with, and the Leica lens zooms 12X. I keep it full-time in my go-bag that I normally...

What can I say. My older Sunpak tripod wanted to have a purpose again. This is a tripod that I had broken 6 years ago, sent in for warranty repair, and was inspired to at least replace the unstable pistol-grip head following that. I since bought a new tripod which I transplanted that...

This one is forecast to brighten to just naked-eye visible around the last week of January 2023. During this time it will appear in the sky to the north, right in there with the Big and Little Dippers. It may take a long telephoto lens to photograph it well. It will be less than half as bright...