BF Hammer's 2023 Phantasic Photos

[BF Hammer]

Visited a farmstead in Montecello, WI today. It has several historic buildings and the patriarch apparently takes great pride in maintaining them. I would have shot the house too but it kind of looked like it was needing some paint and I think the old man would not have appreciated the artistry of that so much.

It was also supposed to be a rainy day so I only had my infrared camera in my travels for work today. Was thinking of maybe catching some storm clouds. But monochrome seems to work with the stone barn well.

 

[Needa]

Any info on the structure in the last images. Looks like it was a barn at one time.

 

[BF Hammer]

It is a stone barn directly across the road from the first wooden structure. The date sign is 1869. All still with original family farmers. I think 4 generations living in main house. Was there servicing a printer.

 

[BF Hammer]

Another image of the Sun. This time I experimented with using the infrared-converted D600. I was hoping it would show some surface detail if I worked the image right in post. I used Siril to stack over 150 Raw images to increase resolution and average out noise. We can barely see the surface detail. Pretty active sunspots too.

 

[BF Hammer]

A little fall color from 10-24-2023. Trying to be up-close and personal with the trees.

 

[BF Hammer]

I assembled my 2024 calendar. I will take this one time this year to shill for it.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/chris-lar...hris-larson/paperback/product-6552zp5.html?q=

 

[BF Hammer]

One more before year-end. I'm guessing this will be the final entry unless I see a snowy owl or something in the next 2 weeks.

Andromeda Galaxy from 12-14-2023.
Z5, Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR lens (200mm). Manual f/2.8, 48 sec, ISO 3200, 72 exposures stacked. Much processing with SiRiL and GIMP.