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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  October 10, 20185:00 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

 

 

If it’s Wednesday, it’s ?BillinGlendaleCA!  Sorry things have been so herky-jerky recently, I’ve been consumed by real-world things and have had limited time (really, attention). That should change.

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.

Composites…

I’ve posted composites here before, anytime that I’ve used the skytracker(foregrounds look rather funny when the camera is moving to follow the sky and the foreground doesn’t), the foreground has been shot separately and then been blended with the sky. These are a bit different, for some reason they cannot exist in nature. The key is to make them look like they could exist by blending the two photos together so they don’t look like they’ve just been slapped together.

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Red Rock State Park, California

You actually can see the Milky Way with the Red Cliffs at Red Rock, however you can’t see the galactic center with the red cliffs. The galactic center(the bright part of the Milky Way) is in the southern sky and the Red Cliffs face south. The Milky Way shot was actually shot at Arroyo Hondo and I used the light of one of the oil platforms as a stand-in for Ridgecrest’s light dome.

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San Marino, CA

Since The Huntington isn’t generally open at night(they sometimes are open for special events), I had to improvise by making an evening photo darker and adding some lighting. I added the reflections of the galactic center and Mars to the lake and brightened the sky at the bottom to give it a more realistic city light glow.

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Los Angeles, CA

This shot overlooks Dodger Stadium with Downtown in the background. Again, the bottom of the sky has been illuminated a bit from the foreground shot by allowing the lighter color in the foreground to show. One of the things I’ve also tried to do is get the Milky Way to be in the appropriate place given the direction that the picture was shot. This is taken to the south, so I used a more late season(August) Milky Way shot.

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Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA

I thought a picture of the observatory and the Milky Way would be appropriate. This would be a late season(September or October) Milky Way shot since it’s more to the southwest.

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Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA

This would be more of an early season(May or June) Milky Way since it’s looking towards the southeast. The Milky Way shot here is from Twin Bush(about 50 miles west of Downtown).

 

Thank you so much ?BillinGlendaleCA, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

Submissions should be sent via the all-new form at https://tools.balloon-juice.com

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17Comments

  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    October 10, 2018 at 5:24 am

    Wow. The only thing cooler would be a dinosaur coming up from the tar pits under the Milky Way glow. If not a dinosaur then maybe a saber tooth tiger could work.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 10, 2018 at 5:34 am

    @Jerzy Russian: Yeah, there were no dinosaurs that got buried in the tar pits, definitely saber tooth tigers.

    ETA: I’ve been to the tar pits and the Page Museum a few times.

  3. 3.

    Jerzy Russian

    October 10, 2018 at 5:43 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Seriously though, I would buy a poster or a puzzle with any of these images on it, even without a dinosaur. Theses types of items would sell well at the observatory gift shop.

  4. 4.

    Mel

    October 10, 2018 at 6:00 am

    They’re all exquisite, but the first one just took my breath away. It touches something very primal in the brain.

  5. 5.

    rikyrah

    October 10, 2018 at 6:03 am

    Gorgeous, Bill??

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 10, 2018 at 6:11 am

    @Mel: I shot the cliffs when I went out with Madame and the kid to teach her how to shoot the Milky Way. I didn’t use the sky that I shot that night because I had a better(less clouds) from Arroyo Hondo.

    @rikyrah: Thanks.

    @Jerzy Russian: Much like John McCain’s reticence about being a POW, I don’t talk much about my on-line store to purchase my pics that’s accessible by clicking on my nym.

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    PSpain

    October 10, 2018 at 6:31 am

    Wow , great photos. thanks

    Just beautiful. Hard to imagine seeing the Milky Way over the lights of LA

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    Aleta

    October 10, 2018 at 6:32 am

    stunning.
    like the awesome night sky itself

  9. 9.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 10, 2018 at 6:53 am

    @PSpain: It’s the lights that make it, well, difficult. While you would never see the galactic center with the naked eye. It might on rare nights, when the humidity is very low, to be possible to photograph it. I’ve shot a very faint capture of the Milky Way from the hills above Glendale.

    @Aleta: Thanks.

  10. 10.

    arrieve

    October 10, 2018 at 8:21 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Gorgeous as always! Thanks for the reminders of the glory of the universe above all the day to day crap.

  11. 11.

    Quinerly

    October 10, 2018 at 8:31 am

    ??

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    Steve in the ATL

    October 10, 2018 at 8:53 am

    @Jerzy Russian: lol

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: you have talent, sir. I assume photography is your profession and not just a Balloon Juice hobby?

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    October 10, 2018 at 9:54 am

    I love these photos.

    I would like prints of them, to frame in a series. Bookmarking this post and will be in touch with you after the midterms.

    Just gorgeous. Agree with jerzy russian — maybe the observatory would like to help support a local photographer? Would be spectacular as note cards, or a puzzle, or whatever. Just beautiful.

    Yea Bill!!

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    J R in WV

    October 10, 2018 at 10:02 am

    Frabjously fine work, thanks for sharing it with us.

    In that third photo composite, the one with the galaxy hanging over the urban center, is that a meteor streak over the tallest downtown skyscraper?

    Sure looks it.

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    Mary G

    October 10, 2018 at 1:42 pm

    The one at the Huntington is very haunting; it makes me imagine that it’s several thousand years after humans have all killed themselves with global warming, and there are no lights at night anymore and the stars are the same and uncaring over the ruins. Cool!

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 10, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    @arrieve: Thanks, composites are fun to do. The trick is trying to make them believable.

    @Quinerly: ?

    @Steve in the ATL: Photography as a profession is an aspiration.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    October 10, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    @Elizabelle: Well, you’re in luck…I’ll have them up at my web store(conveniently access via clicking on my nym) in a couple of weeks.

    @J R in WV: It is a meteor. When a lot of folk think they’ve captured a meteor, it just an airplane or satellite. You actually have to look close to tell the difference(meteors have lots of color).

    @Mary G: I like that one too, but there is lighting on the bridge, the rock sculpture and the paths.

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