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August 23/24, 2011 Star Trails

I took this photo tonight.  I used the same technique as I did in the previous post.  This one is about a 50 minute one.  For some reason my SLR powers off after about that long.  I will need to find out how to turn that off before making longer ones.

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August 21, 2011 Star Trails

I took these photos last night with my Nikon D5000.  I set it to take repeated 30 second exposures.  I then overlaid the images using a command line bash script and Image Magick.  The first is about 25 minutes worth of photos, the second is about 50 minutes worth.

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I started with a the first image as the “../temp.jpg” as listed below.  This could be a image from the series or a blank black image of the same size.  Then I ran the bash code below to generate the images.


$ ls *.jpg | while read a; do convert ../temp.jpg $a -gravity center -compose lighten -composite -format jpg ../temp.jpg; done;

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August 7, 2011 Lightning

I took these photos tonight as thunderstorms moved over Coffee County/Franklin County Tennessee.

These are the best two:
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Here are some others that I captured.
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Other lightning photos: My Lightning Gallery

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Lunar Photography [First Attempt]

I finally got both parts to connect my D5000 to my telescope.  Of all the photos I took, only one turned out.  Here it is.

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Larry’s Bar-B-Que Decherd, Tennessee

I went and took photos for Larry’s Bar-B-Que in Decherd, Tennessee the this week.  I’ve created them a new Facebook fan page that can be found here.  Be sure to “Like” them on Facebook when you’re there.  Here are the images, I took.

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I also recreated their menu.

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Fall Creek Falls October 23, 2010

Saturday was the second trip I’ve taken to Fall Creek Falls.  Almost a year to the day of the last visit to see the leaves changing.  This year was sort of a mixed bag.  Only one of the primary falls had enough water.  Leaves were a bit more scarce in areas but just as colorful.  Overall, it was still a decent trip.  Below are the pictures from this year, below them is a link to last year’s.

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Related: Fall Creek Falls October 25, 2009

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Normandy / Bedford Lake October 2010

Went out to Normandy and Bedford Lake to take photos this weekend.  I’ve posted the photos that I took below.

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October 12, 2010 Lightning Storm

An evening thunderstorm rolled through last night.  While I did not setup the D5000, I did capture the following with my phone’s camera.  You can see the youtube video of it here as well as still shots below.

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