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About sixty seconds from clouds obscuring the comet Neowise on Sunday night. I was just setting the camera up for what I thought would be an hour of shooting around the lookout environs on the tiptop of Pinyon Peak (9945' elevation). The lookout interior was illuminated with a single 6" ChemLight lightstick. Camera was a Sony A7-R4 with a trusty Canon 24-105 adapted lens. About two hours later I was jolted by a 3.0 quake about 7 miles away.
Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest
Idaho
Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)It has been WAY too cloudy here to see the comet (or much of anything in the sky).
cry baby
(6,682 posts)42bambi
(1,753 posts)handmade34
(22,759 posts)think4yourself
(839 posts)But dont you ever stop taking photos!
spanone
(135,917 posts)MLAA
(17,350 posts)applegrove
(118,870 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,925 posts)I take it you are doing the firewatch thing again this summer?
DemoTex
(25,407 posts)Idaho
CousinIT
(9,267 posts)I'd never have seen that comet otherwise.
Hekate
(90,939 posts)tblue37
(65,503 posts)hlthe2b
(102,471 posts)elleng
(131,277 posts)librechik
(30,678 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,220 posts)Thanks for sharing.
StarryNite
(9,464 posts)Amazing shot! I don't think I could capture something like that with my Canon point and shoot.
benld74
(9,911 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,027 posts)a mountain must have been very scary!
AllaN01Bear
(18,634 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,260 posts)We've been waking up all hours of the night to see the comet, to no avail. I have several framed photos of comets on my wall. I would love to have a framed copy of this photo. PS my husband said "wow".
panader0
(25,816 posts)It has been cloudy for days and I have not been able to see it. I just went out after I saw
your post and it's still clouded.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And you have so many amazing photos from which to choose.
DFW
(54,465 posts)And a wilderness named after Frank Church? Bravo! He was a wonderful man.
When I was a kid, he used to come out to our house in Virginia and chat with my Dad for the afternoon. I used to hang with his son, Forrest, but he was already too old to have much in common with me. He died very young, I heard.
GregD
(2,263 posts)It's fire season again in Siskiyou County, just at the Oregon Border.
If you go to this page, and look at the header image, you see the comet flying above the Badger Fire: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SiskiyouAlerts/
This one is from over Mount Shasta.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,260 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,167 posts)I can actually see that it's ice.
democrank
(11,112 posts)Thank you so much.
MontanaMama
(23,364 posts)Thank you DT!
greblach
(257 posts)Wow!
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Unbelievable! Amazing!
Joinfortmill
(14,489 posts)alfredo
(60,078 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Just beautiful. Thank you
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)Just beautiful.
HAB911
(8,927 posts)Ani Yun Wiya
(797 posts)Well Done...
tavernier
(12,410 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)niyad
(113,714 posts)DarleenMB
(408 posts)so that only the comet and clouds showed, then I bet you could sell a lot of prints. I'd love to have that printed on glass. It is breathtaking! Excellent job!
2naSalit
(86,880 posts)Thank you for sharing!
calimary
(81,558 posts)You prove that there is still MUCH beauty and wonder to be beheld in (and around) this world.
dalton99a
(81,658 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)pandr32
(11,636 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,612 posts)Silver1
(721 posts)Wow.
ProfessorGAC
(65,322 posts)Thanks for posting.
peacebuzzard
(5,184 posts)a picture of a lifetime!
what a shot. congratulations!
tandem5
(2,072 posts)There's a lot of color information hidden in the dark regions that you might want to explore. I like the greens and reds as a contrast to the night sky and the rock outcropping in the corner. There are also a number of lens flares across the upper center band that are also obscured, but interesting. I'm not saying you have to change anything, but there are lot of textures and colors just under the surface. I also the like the swept angle of the awning supports being parallel with the tail.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)I have a pic of Halley's Comet somewhere around here. I put my Dad's camera on a tripod and tried various exposure times, one of which came out especially good. It was framed by two trees.