With the excitement of the recent blood moon behind us I’m already planning for the next one and what I should do differently. There are the technical challenges and to that end the problems and solutions are becoming clearer. Practice and technique trump dollars spent every time! OK, perhaps an attempt to photograph the lunar […]
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Mum has a liquid amber tree in her front garden and every Autumn I am reminded how amazing it is see those fantastic colours. Growing up I never really noticed as the colours changed from green to yellow, orange, red and finally crimson before littering the ground below. Now my visits are infrequent and every […]
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An opportunity, a cheeky grin, a peek through thousands of negative images on long strips of celluloid. The irony is that this image will never experience the physical reality of silver rendered in film. Instead these photons were transformed into minute pockets of electric charge then carried away on structures of aluminium, gold and poly-silicon […]
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Shrouded behind veils of patchy cloud an impossible challenge is to capture the details of the lunar surface as well as the intricate details of wispy cloud. In the end a compromise was to over expose the moon, to under expose the clouds and do my best to get detail in both. Photo: Robert Rath, […]
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