The moon is waxing again and soon will be full. The pattern repeats over and over but the sky is always different. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Lunar Layers’ 1/25s f/4 ISO1600 200mm
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Staring Straight Into The Shining Sun
This afternoon while photographing sunspots a favorite Pink Floyd song came to mind. “While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun” Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Staring Straight Into The Shining Sun’ 1/640s f/16 ISO100 400mm filter 400ND + Long pass […]
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Waning Gibbous
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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Small Moves to the Orion Nebula
I loved a moment in the opening scenes of the movie ‘Contact’ with Jodie Foster; quoting Ellie’s Dad; “Small moves, Ellie, small moves”. With my very own small moves I’m exploring a direction of photography which has always inspired me, amazed me and humbled me, our incredible night sky. Following the first steps of many […]
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