The first word I thought of was camera and it was an easy word to build a post around.
In the end I decided to go with a small selection of photos taken using various camera settings and techniques that show something that the human eye cannot normally see.
Intentional camera movement of trees in snow using a slow shutter speed and panning the camera upwards. Star trails and shooting stars over Colpoy’s Bay at night using the cameras live composite setting. Setting a mirrorless camera to monochrome allows you to see in monochrome through the electronic viewfinder. Setting the camera to time exposure allows a 346 second exposure of clouds moving across Colpoy’s Bay at dawn
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: At Night prompt.
To be honest I wasn’t sure what I was going to go with for this challenge. I didn’t realise just how many photos I had taken at night until I started selecting photos.
Star trails over Colpoy’s Bay at night. Taken while looking for Comet Neowise which I failed to see let alone photograph.A very long exposure of Beeston Castle at night. Taken while doing a night shift protecting a Peregrine nest site on the cliff below the castle. Wybunbury churchyard at night, Cheshire, England. Taken for an art school project although I no longer remember what the brief was. Team Bike entering the start/finish straight at around midnight. 9 hours into the Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race in France.
Once I started selecting some favourites I realised that they were far to random to build a theme around. So I decided to go with a small selection of photos of various skies, one from each season.
Early January saw me down on a snow and ice covered section of the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline for my first dawn photos of 2020.
Late March saw Ontario in lockdown and I was restricted to walks around the neighborhood. Paper Birch trees against a blue sky made bluer by the lack of aircraft flying at the time.
July saw some of the lockdown restrictions eased and Comet Neowise in the sky. As a result I headed down to Colpoy’s Bay to photograph star trails while missing the comet on every attempt.
November saw me down on the Government Dock in the village of Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula for the sunrise. The light and clouds were so widespread I used my fisheye lens to include as much of the sky as possible.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Precious Moments prompt.
As is sometimes the case with me, I had a couple of ideas for the challenge before turning 90 degrees and heading off sideways.
That was because I Googled moment to see if there was a defined range of times that fall under the word. I was surprise to discover that a moment started out as a medieval unit of time, approximately 90 seconds long.
Which got me thinking about some of the photos I have taken since the lockdown restrictions were lifted a little in the summer. Some of those photos involved exposure times minutes long which explains the title of this post.
A long exposure to show the stars moving over Colpoy’s Bay at night. A long exposure to show storm clouds moving across Colpoy’s Bay at dawn.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sunset to Sunrise prompt.
I decided to keep it simple and go with a small selection of photos taken locally around the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario.
Lines of ice on Lake Huron, Ontario at dusk in the spring Stars over Colpoy’s Bay on the South Bruce Peninsula at night in the summer Berford Lake on the South Bruce Peninsula at dawn in the autumn
I had a couple of ideas for the One Word Sunday prompt Night.
Then I remembered my fruitless visits to the dock at Colpoy’s Bay looking for Comet Neowise in the summer and one long exposure photo showing star trails in particular. Apparently the planet was passing through three different meteor showers at the time which explains the shooting stars.