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Neighbours

An all-too familiar subject since the advent of high-ISO digital. Usually with rugged rock formation, lighthouse, windmill, distant city lights and a bit of light-painting.

As if it's not awesome (in the original meaning) enough in itself.

When I'd processed this that night, I sat at my laptop in a little town on Tasmania's west coast, uttering profanities in disbelief, incredulous that my camera had captured something so wondrous. There's a shooting star at the right, which I never noticed at the time. Another image shortly after also had one, parallel and same length but in a slightly different place. Must have been a meteorite shower.

NIKON D800E
20mm · f/2.8 · 20s · ISO 2000
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Wicked awesome Chris!

Thanks, John! A simple subject, but a pretty cool one.

I haven't achieved such nice colors yet in my Milky Way shots. Love the rendering here.

The first time I ever caught a meteor on camera I was hooting and hollering, in joy, out on the desert all alone. It set off a pack of coyotes, howling. This is why I love the dark! Chasing cool shots like yours, Chris. :)

Thanks, C.O! (Should I call you that?) You're very kind.

This was taken on a stretch of road running through habitat of the endangered Tasmanian Devil, where sensors set off a high-pitched noise to repel animals straying too close to the road, so I could hear these weird noises as I was manoeuvring the tripod, etc, and although there was nothing to see around me other than scrub, I knew I was not alone. Strange and beautiful night I'll always remember. The RAW is utterly drab - this is heavily processed, trying to accentuate without faking. The colours were all there, but not so obvious.

I'm Cathleen. I got all freaked out a while back and changed my profile to initials. Time to get past that moment and rejoin normal life. :)

If it's good enough for J.K. Rowling and W.O. Bentley... ;-) The latter even signed letters to his mother as W.O. And the initials don't even roll off the tongue!

You guys are good for the soul. :)

C.O. doesn't really ring either. And, sometimes makes me feel pretentious... not the CO anymore, just another addle-minded veteran puzzling over all the damn thank you's I get 20 yrs in the aftermath.

People are beginning to realise, at least here, the price that veterans have paid. Hidden giant for too long.

Mmmm... I fear the giant gets buried with each new generation. Dirt on my lens drives me bats. :)~

Wellll... rejoined humanity (again). Hi, I'm Cathleen. LOL. When I took my partner's last name... I had no idea of the legions of Cathleen Shea names in the world (I was oblivious to the equivalency of Smith). My email address, while not terribly professional sounding, has stuck for its unique identification. But I kinda like the idea of following in the tradition of initials on a book jacket. :) The mystery appeals to me.

I always feel the need to explain to critical sorts that the lightwaves are all there... just the human eye can't perceive them without the aid of post-processing. It's the nature of this particular realm of photography.

Are there wild canids in Tasmania, too? Mannn, I wish I had the money to roam down under (scraped together a trip to South Island NZ in April 2018... still mourning the cloudy weather!). I've got all the time in the world... just the usual funding issues. Ha.

Not canids in this case - nearly every critter in Australia is marsupial, or even weirder, like the platypus (monotreme - egg-laying mammal). When humans came in from the north they introduced dingoes, a beautiful wild dog. Not sure they got to Tas. The dingoes, that is.

Ah. Good old human species... bleh.

I've had a 30 yr love affair with Australian Cattle Dogs... on my fourth boy now. Bit of a wild man at 2 yrs old. The challenge I didn't realize I needed.

I share some past life affinity with Dingos and your vast Outback. It was so cool to discover Southeastern Oregon was called "The Oregon Outback." Got to live out there for 18 months. Miss it like crazy!

Great Picture! I am hoping to trying taking night sky photos this winter. There is Dark-Sky Preserve near where I live. The lakes should be frozen over soon.

Thanks, Stephen! Sorry I missed you until now. Some pretty cool images in your portfolio. I'll have to stop by and give you some ratings.

You nailed it, Chris!

Thanks, Darin. Sorry I missed this until now.

epic shot <3