Photography
Our Allums are huge this year. So magnificent in fact that a couple of fellow photographers have stopped by to take photos and take some home for studio work. I love these in our garden as they remind me of Fireworks caught in motion.
I used my flash to brighten up the blooms. It was an interesting experiment.
A little behind in posting photo’s as the Imalaird Offices are being renovated. In the process, I also lost most of my photo editing software. We are all now back and updated with the latest and greatest. Hopefully that makes a difference. Please be patient and I will work on getting the photos loaded.
We had a wonderful weekend up at our friends cottage for the long weekend. We had some amazing weather (summer like) and the bugs hadn’t figured out what they were doing yet.
All weekend long the earth was hit with a huge solar storm which caused amazing Northern and Southern Lights (The Aurora Borealis or the Aurora Australis).
I was so excited to get out and photograph these, but it seemed as though it wasn’t meant to be. I went out shortly after dark and it was cloudy. I checked again at 11:45pm and it was still horizon to horizon clouds. This was really frustrating as amazing pictures were being posted all over my social media and on the news. So, I gave up, disappointed that I was going to miss yet another astro event due to clouds.
But wait.. at 3 am I got woken up by a noise. I looked out the window and it was totally clear and the Northern Light were dancing right above the house. So happy with my shots. There is even a selfie with me and the lights.
I shot all these photos with my Nikon D5300, a 10-22mm wide angle lens. Settings were F5, ISO1600, 5-10 second shutter speed. Manual focused to infinity.
Here is an explanation of the various colours in the northern lights
