Picture Of The Day

thunderbrick · « **Reply #4382 on:** 17 Apr 2016, 03:12 pm »

Last night a local college kid called me, looking for a T-mount for a telescope. Turns out the International Space Station was expected to cross the moon's face, and the perfect angle for a center-of-moon shot was less than two miles away. And he knew the precise minute it would take place. Grabbed my heaviest tripod, long lenses and got this three-shot burst in less than a second as it SCREAMED across the sky The ISS was over the Sea of Tranquility, then at terminus of crossing then on it's journey in the blink of the eye. 1/800th, f8. ISO 500. Sure is nice to have engineering students around who could tell me about this!

brooklyn · « **Reply #4383 on:** 17 Apr 2016, 03:22 pm »

Thanks TB, those exposures are way excellent..

PeteG · « **Reply #4384 on:** 17 Apr 2016, 03:48 pm »

Brick, awesome shots and great timing.

syzygy · « **Reply #4385 on:** 17 Apr 2016, 04:04 pm »

bside123 · « **Reply #4386 on:** 17 Apr 2016, 05:09 pm »

Thunderbrick: That is very, very cool! Lets us all see something that ordinarily nobody would see. Great shots. Thanks to your timing and thanks for the technology to pull that off and thanks for sharing.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #4387 on:** 17 Apr 2016, 05:18 pm »

Thanks, guys! It was so cool to listen to the students plan everything, and while though the camera it was just a quick flash, the images make me feel pretty insignificant in the cosmos.

chip · « **Reply #4388 on:** 22 Apr 2016, 09:48 pm »

Taken at Pacific City last Sunday

Added some color flare to it.

syzygy · « **Reply #4389 on:** 22 Apr 2016, 10:35 pm »

Cloud Gate

Bob2 · « **Reply #4390 on:** 22 Apr 2016, 11:20 pm »

Quote from: thunderbrick on 17 Apr 2016, 03:12 pm

Last night a local college kid called me, looking for a T-mount for a telescope. Turns out the International Space Station was expected to cross the moon's face, and the perfect angle for a center-of-moon shot was less than two miles away. And he knew the precise minute it would take place. Grabbed my heaviest tripod, long lenses and got this three-shot burst in less than a second as it SCREAMED across the sky The ISS was over the Sea of Tranquility, then at terminus of crossing then on it's journey in the blink of the eye. 1/800th, f8. ISO 500. Sure is nice to have engineering students around who could tell me about this!

Great shots! What lens?

bside123 · « **Reply #4391 on:** 28 Apr 2016, 09:23 pm »

Warmed rocks from the end-of-day sun brought out this little visitor to our stone veranda. Spring is the mating time for these little lizards. This one's a dandy, so I'm sure there's a mate just around the rock corner.

BTW, this was shot with a vintage, SMC Pentax Fully Manual 135mm 1:3.5 Lens. Effective Length 200mm. Some nice, old glass!

Five Lined Skink

JakeJ · « **Reply #4392 on:** 29 Apr 2016, 12:23 am »

Man, that's a beauty, bside123!

Audiovista · « **Reply #4393 on:** 30 Apr 2016, 09:36 am »

Yet another excellent picture...made me shudder... not liking lizards, snakes...

Bob2 · « **Reply #4394 on:** 30 Apr 2016, 11:46 am »

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #4395 on:** 6 May 2016, 10:53 pm »

LesterSleepsIn · « **Reply #4396 on:** 7 May 2016, 02:04 am »

Quote from: syzygy on 17 Apr 2016, 04:04 pm

Great shot syzygy. What are you shooting with?

syzygy · « **Reply #4397 on:** 7 May 2016, 03:44 am »

Quote from: LesterSleepsIn on 7 May 2016, 02:04 am

Great shot syzygy. What are you shooting with?

That's an iphone shot.

LesterSleepsIn · « **Reply #4398 on:** 7 May 2016, 05:49 pm »

Quote from: syzygy on 7 May 2016, 03:44 am

That's an iphone shot.

Holy crap! Is the Cloudgate photo also Iphone?

Btw, which Iphone?

syzygy · « **Reply #4399 on:** 7 May 2016, 11:46 pm »

Quote from: LesterSleepsIn on 7 May 2016, 05:49 pm

Holy crap! Is the Cloudgate photo also Iphone?

Btw, which Iphone?

Those were both with a 5s. My new 6s is better. The cameras in these phones are quite amazing. I have a couple of other shots in this thread that were taken with the 5s.