Night Trees
These shots are from Quadra Island as well, taken a few hours before it started to snow. My room looked out on these trees that were lit by the lights on the outside of the building. I liked the vertical stripes of the trunks in the dark which is what I went out to shoot, but the stars took my fancy once I got out there.
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Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24/f2.8 lens, ISO1000, 30 second exposures, various apertures.
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Oh, my! That lighting is so interesting. And I can see how your fancy could be taken by those stars. I keep thinking that those power lines should bother me, but somehow they don’t. Instead, they seem to bundle the trees together nicely.
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Thanks Linda – it was actually a very yellow light which I balanced to something more natural. I agree about the power lines. At first I was trying to avoid them, but then I realised that they do something that is visually interesting with the tree trunks so I started to work them into the photos. It had been a very long day, so I did not venture down the lane to find a vantage point clear of the wires. Sometime I must try to get out on a night like this but down to the water’s edge where I can see much more of the sky.
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Six is my favourite.
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Thanks Patrick – that is probably my favourite too. I rotated it from the way I shot it, which greatly improves it.
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I would need to travel quite far to lose the light pollution of the city, I really want to do some astral photography. My fingers are starting to each.
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Thanks Ben – I did not need to go this far (300km) to get out of the light pollution, but it really is pretty amazing from how far away a big city glows on the horizon.
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Very nice series, and I was immediately reminded of my favorite Georgia O’Keeffe painting, The Lawrence Tree: http://bit.ly/1fRPOnh
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Hi Melinda. That is a new painting to me, but I see why you were reminded!
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On New Year’s Eve 1999 (which either was or wasn’t going to be the end of the world, remember?), I went to the Dallas Museum of Art and saw this painting. There was a bench opposite it, and I sat there for a very long time, feeling those branches rising upward to the skies and felt myself transported somewhere else…. It was magical.
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Well, I am glad to have reminded you of that time (though the dumbass concerns about the world ending, and computers failing, were pretty aggravating, to me anyway. Numerology distilled to its superstitious core).
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Yes, it was pretty ridiculous. The Y2K stuff, I mean. Not the art show. The art show was great.
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