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About sixty seconds from clouds obscuring the comet Neowise on Sunday night. I was just setting the camera up for what I thought would be an hour of shooting around the lookout environs on the tiptop of Pinyon Peak (9945' elevation). The lookout interior was illuminated with a single 6" ChemLight lightstick. Camera was a Sony A7-R4 with a trusty Canon 24-105 adapted lens. About two hours later I was jolted by a 3.0 quake about 7 miles away.
Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest
Idaho
Glorfindel
(9,714 posts)It has been WAY too cloudy here to see the comet (or much of anything in the sky).
cry baby
(6,682 posts)42bambi
(1,753 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)think4yourself
(837 posts)But dont you ever stop taking photos!
spanone
(135,776 posts)MLAA
(17,238 posts)applegrove
(118,460 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)I take it you are doing the firewatch thing again this summer?
DemoTex
(25,389 posts)Idaho
CousinIT
(9,217 posts)I'd never have seen that comet otherwise.
Hekate
(90,521 posts)tblue37
(65,212 posts)hlthe2b
(102,101 posts)elleng
(130,701 posts)librechik
(30,673 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,091 posts)Thanks for sharing.
StarryNite
(9,434 posts)Amazing shot! I don't think I could capture something like that with my Canon point and shoot.
benld74
(9,901 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,006 posts)a mountain must have been very scary!
AllaN01Bear
(17,940 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,237 posts)We've been waking up all hours of the night to see the comet, to no avail. I have several framed photos of comets on my wall. I would love to have a framed copy of this photo. PS my husband said "wow".
panader0
(25,816 posts)It has been cloudy for days and I have not been able to see it. I just went out after I saw
your post and it's still clouded.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And you have so many amazing photos from which to choose.
DFW
(54,268 posts)And a wilderness named after Frank Church? Bravo! He was a wonderful man.
When I was a kid, he used to come out to our house in Virginia and chat with my Dad for the afternoon. I used to hang with his son, Forrest, but he was already too old to have much in common with me. He died very young, I heard.
GregD
(2,263 posts)It's fire season again in Siskiyou County, just at the Oregon Border.
If you go to this page, and look at the header image, you see the comet flying above the Badger Fire: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SiskiyouAlerts/
This one is from over Mount Shasta.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,237 posts)marble falls
(56,974 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,081 posts)I can actually see that it's ice.
democrank
(11,084 posts)Thank you so much.
MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)Thank you DT!
greblach
(257 posts)Wow!
kentuck
(111,049 posts)Unbelievable! Amazing!
Joinfortmill
(14,376 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Just beautiful. Thank you
TNNurse
(6,924 posts)Just beautiful.
HAB911
(8,867 posts)Ani Yun Wiya
(797 posts)Well Done...
tavernier
(12,364 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)niyad
(113,019 posts)DarleenMB
(408 posts)so that only the comet and clouds showed, then I bet you could sell a lot of prints. I'd love to have that printed on glass. It is breathtaking! Excellent job!
2naSalit
(86,307 posts)Thank you for sharing!
calimary
(81,085 posts)You prove that there is still MUCH beauty and wonder to be beheld in (and around) this world.
dalton99a
(81,380 posts)marble falls
(56,974 posts)pandr32
(11,548 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,572 posts)Silver1
(721 posts)Wow.
ProfessorGAC
(64,817 posts)Thanks for posting.
peacebuzzard
(5,145 posts)a picture of a lifetime!
what a shot. congratulations!
tandem5
(2,072 posts)There's a lot of color information hidden in the dark regions that you might want to explore. I like the greens and reds as a contrast to the night sky and the rock outcropping in the corner. There are also a number of lens flares across the upper center band that are also obscured, but interesting. I'm not saying you have to change anything, but there are lot of textures and colors just under the surface. I also the like the swept angle of the awning supports being parallel with the tail.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)I have a pic of Halley's Comet somewhere around here. I put my Dad's camera on a tripod and tried various exposure times, one of which came out especially good. It was framed by two trees.