by David Lane | May 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Just to prove I’m not completely useless during the day I decided to do a couple of panorama images after being clouded out at White Pocket. This is what I got on my 1st try. Here is a 100% crop of just a tiny spot in the pano just to show how sharp this...
by David Lane | May 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Clunk. Normally a clunk is not that alarming. However when filming at night in an area with 60mph wind gusts, the first thing that comes to your mind, microseconds after “What was that?”, is not printable in polite society. Having never been a member of...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Turret Arch. In the Windows area of Arches National Park lies Turret Arch. It’s an odd crawl out to this spot along a rock ledge. For once it would not be instant death to fall from this vantage point. Probably, you would wish for death, as the rocks are quite...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
OK here’s a 1/2 sized crop out of my Turret Arch photo. This is a single 30 second exposure. I think I nailed the focus. What does everyone think?
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dead Horse Point-blank. The normal view of Dead Horse Point, and it’s a beauty, lies way above this view. There’s a reason for that too. The road down to this point is dangerous, mind bogglingly steep and guaranteed to give you white knuckles or worse. The...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Musselman Arch, Canyonland National Park. Roads down in Canyonland, on the White Rim road are tough, jarring both visually and physically. After about 5 miles I came to the Arch itself. Some young people froliced on the span of the arch, tempting the fates (and the...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Toroweap. Of course it should be the first image of the year produced. No question. This western end of the Grand Canyon is amazing to behold and staggeringly hard to get to. To say the cliffs here are steep is a huge understatement. The view and the sheer drop...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
My first article for Charlie Warren and Amateur Astronomy has appeared in issue number 90. If you have the time give it a read, tells a little bit about why I do this, a tip and a first hand experience with the resulting image. By the way if you haven’t...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Spotlight. What is that spotlight? Why its the very crescent moon. In this image the moon is so bright it looks like a spotlight on the Milky Way. It’s just a distortion of optics and brightness but it still looks really cool so I left it. I had considered the...
by David Lane | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Star Farm. Welcome to the Dark Star Farm. This is where my observatories sit. Beneath these skies. I really need to do more deep space images as I have tons of data from here. But this is what it looks like in a very simple panorama, that really was a test for the...
