Looking east from David’s backyard, this is the communications tower atop the boxed in refrigerated control rooms sitting up the hill. The startrails lines are dashed due to the short duration of the shots. The short lines bisecting the long ones are airplanes. The Sony 400-800 lens was used at 600mm with the Sony A1ii…

Large clouds gathered in the west today. Here’s the photo I took of the event. The timelapse is happening as I write this.

Last night’s photography of the night sky yielded an interesting view. Lots of plane trails. Started shooting at 9:30 p.m. so it was quite dark. Shot in JPG, adjusted in Lightroom, stacked in Photoshop. 13 second exposure414 framesf/2.8ISO-20052 mm Sigma ARTSony A7R5

The components in the new computer build are as follows. This build was initially complete a year ago, July 2024, and upgraded in August, 2025 with the new video card. The NAS was added in July, 2025, and was upgraded to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The speed is excellent now, allowing for major image manipulation in…

3 August, 2025 — Trying something new. Shooting 10 second shutter every 5 seconds. Set to take 400 photos. Aperture is f/2.8. ISO is Auto. Photos will be RAW, uncompressed. 7 September note: No need to shoot RAW. Just shoot in JPG. 10 seconds is a great exposure time, every 10 seconds is good. 400…

28 July, 2025 — During the next visit to Disneyland, plan on shooting fireworks from Galaxy’s Edge. Scope out a good location with recognizable stuctures in the foreground. Use a tripod for two cameras, to be set up as follows. 31 July, 2025 Update — The photo below is the result of applying the principles…

Shot on the 25th of July, 2025. The Internation Space Station made an appearance during the photo session. These are 280 images stacked, each exposure 10 seconds long, with a Sigma 28-105 lens at 28mm. ISO-100. f/2.8

Photos we have shot that appear interesting to us.