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In a way, this is a way to review my photography in 2021. I do this every year. My Christmas gifts for all family, co-workers, and neighbors are calendars. Desk calendars for co-workers, mini wall calendars for the neighbors, full size glossy wall calendars with birthdays and anniversaries...

Apologies to Wakefieldowl, it was not my intention to take over this thread. When I made the images last year, I also confirmed the moons in Stellarium and made alternate images with labels. That is a star in the upper right.

Flames always make race photos better Peter.

Please remember I used a camera lens and not a Dobsonian telescope. To bring out the detail I took about 40 images and layer-stacked with Registax (the best free Windows solution for stacking planetary images). Did the same with the over-exposed sequence so I could have the high virtual...

This is why I still carry a Lumix point-n-shoot camera around in a go-bag whenever I leave home. Working much farther from home than normal today, I stopped to take lunch in a small town where I knew about a man-made waterfall feature next to the intersection of 2 highways. Basically this was a...

An infrared from this past summer.

Nothing is a guarantee when it comes to aurora in the lower latitudes, but the conditions are considered to be likely on Saturday night. A solar coronal mass ejection happened on the sun a few days ago, and it was aimed directly at Earth. They measure the conditions that create aurora in an...

Size depends on what you intend to photograph inside. I mainly use mine for photographing wristwatches in my collection. Speaking from my own experience, I now use the black semi-rigid type cube with the silver reflective interior and LED lights. My own studio allows you to adjust the position...

I have only had the Sigma of the 3. Personally I like the lens a lot. I have no doubt the Nikon lens would focus faster, better. I cannot imagine a noticeably more sharp lens at the extreme zoom end (and do we ever use the wider settings?). I certainly have had mine out for astrophotography more...

In 2018 I was at a crossroads with my tripod and head situation. I had just broken a leg on my Sunpak carbon fiber tripod with pistol grip. I was finding the pistol grip head did not have nearly enough load capacity for my newly acquired Sigma 150-600mm. Sunpak repaired the tripod under...

I shopped at my local camera shop yesterday for a cheap zoom lens. Had a Benjamin in my pocket and came home with a used Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D. Basically a 20 year old kit lens, but I think it will fill the bill for my infrared work. It's mostly outdoors in sunlight. From lunch today at a...

Not one of my best photos from the lunch at the bridge park, but a good one to try the 3 common ways to adjust the color on a 720nm infrared. I have tended to just prefer to leave the color as-is when the white balance is properly referenced to the green foliage. I will use the WB eyedropper...

Still from the park with the bridge.

Star Trails (with satellite trail at no extra charge). Landscape Trails. ;)

I have shot this scene before with fall colors. It works either way.

I cannot take a new photo daily, but I may be able to post a new photo daily for a while. Sunshine helps with this IR work.

Here are some more early shots. When first arrived, KEH had the camera reset to factory. This being the 2nd image from my front yard after I fitted my 24-120mm f/4 lens. For the 2nd photo I quickly aimed to the grass, took a WB preset sample, and took another photo. 2 days later due to bad...

Landed 2 days ago, a used D600 already converted to 720nm infrared. Been shopping and scheming for 10 months since my IR-converted D80 died of 'ERR'. From a disabled-accessible county park today in Madison, WI

And be careful not to blow off your shutter-release finger handling fireworks! Or anything else for that matter.

Lucien, the 720nm filter will allow deep red light in. If you photograph an American flag, it would be faded red and white stripes with a gray star union. And I have done that photo. Red tail lights show perfectly red. Skies have a bit of red mixed in the color and become sort of bronze. Having...