Awaiting flight plan…
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A windmill in suburbia. Apparently it was built by one of Hermosa Beach’s city founders …
A windmill in suburbia. Apparently it was built by one of Hermosa Beach’s city founders around 1900 and later moved to its present location, a small triangle of grass and trees in the corner of a grocery store lot next to Pacific Coast Highway. It’s no longer functional as far as I know, except as a historical landmark.
The climb.
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon. It’s passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, …
Tonight’s waxing crescent moon. It’s passing in front of the Hyades star cluster right now, which I’d love to get a photo of, but the moon’s just waaay too bright to capture the background stars!
#photography #moon #night #stargazing
The timing was flocking perfect.
In the time it took me to get a light meter reading and swap lenses …
In the time it took me to get a light meter reading and swap lenses on the old film camera, the light went from perfectly highlighting the flowers to leaving some of them in shadow.
Fortunately I took a shot with my phone before I started fumbling with equipment and the shadows moved, but the fake depth of field just isn’t the same.
Lemons after the rain (digital). And the same lemons ~2 months earlier (film).
Lemons after the rain (digital). And the same lemons ~2 months earlier (film).
The potted lemon tree is still small, but it’s mature enough to produce lemons. Of course, at two feet tall, it’s only producing a crop of maybe five lemons a year.
One of the photos I took when we dragged out the old film camera was of this tree, so I keep coming back to it. It’s joined the moon and the distant LA skyline as a standard test subject!
Snow in the mountains above Hollywood.
Snow in the mountains above Los Angeles.
#Snow in the mountains above #LosAngeles.
By mid-afternoon, the patches on Mt. Wilson (barely visible at the left) had faded, though the ridge behind it still has a ton of snow visible.
TODO: Which version of this is on Flickr?
A sundog, looking like a ball of rainbow. The sun was shining through clouds, too hazy to make out the disc, but apparently had a clear path to some ice crystals at just the right angle.
A sundog, looking like a ball of rainbow. The sun was shining through clouds, too hazy to make out the disc, but apparently had a clear path to some ice crystals at just the right angle.
Here’s a shot of a coral tree flower, from my first photo-walk with it.
Thanks to everyone who gave advice on mirrorless/DSLR cameras! I decided to go with the Sony a6000.
Here’s a shot of a coral tree flower, from my first photo-walk with it, at a local botanical garden. (It’s winter, but here that means we actually got rain recently.)
#photography #flower #CoralTree
LEGO macro
Waning moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday….
Waning #moon, taken with the settings I *should* have used for the eclipse on Sunday.
I like taking photos of the moon when it’s between phases (rather than full) because you get to see the most texture in it at those times.
Some recent sun halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks
Some recent sun #halo displays I’ve seen in the last 2 weeks: An upper tangent arc (my first!), the top edges of a circumscribed and 22° circular halo, and most of a 22° circular halo (with bonus contrail shadow on the cloud layer!)
All shot on my Pixel 2 with levels adjusted.
These are all formed by reflection and refraction of light in ice crystals. (A great reference: https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/common.htm )
Also, all seen from Los Angeles, which isn’t freezing…at ground level.
I caught a glimpse of the trail from today’s Delta 4 launch out of Vandenberg …
I caught a glimpse of the trail from today’s Delta 4 launch out of Vandenberg while driving, and made a beeline for the coast for a better look. I did manage to catch a clear view of the trail, though winds had already started blowing it out of shape, and stayed briefly to look at the boats on the ocean and the scenery.
#Photography #ocean #RocketTrail #cliff
Polliwog Park doubles as a flood control basin, and after 5 days of rain, it’s filling up.
Polliwog Park doubles as a flood control basin, and after 5 days of rain, it’s filling up. Those two arcs out in the water? They’re benches like the one at the lower left.
It’s not the fullest I’ve seen it, though. A few years ago, it filled up to the top of the swing sets. Photos here:
Raindrops on sage, spotted while walking around in the rain today.There were two major …
Raindrops on sage, spotted while walking around in the rain today.
There were two major cloudbursts, one overnight and one mid-morning. At this point the second one had faded to a little more than a drizzle, something a bit more comfortable to walk in.
Mt Wilson after the rainstorm
Flowers in and out of their depth (of field).
Flowers in and out of their depth (of field).
#Photography #flowers
Taken with the old Sears TLS.
I went back to the same marsh I’d visited in early December, after a few …
I went back to the same marsh I’d visited in early December, after a few more rainstorms. The ponds had spread, covering trails I’d walked along just a few weeks earlier. Ducks and geese had arrived in force.
I could also swear I heard a frog, but I couldn’t see it, and even with the weird southern California seasons, I don’t think it’s the right time for frogs to be out. I should’ve asked at the visitor center.
#photography, #nature #geese #marsh #pond
