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.
Good morning and Happy New Year!
We start with a special Wednesday submission from you-know-who!
And this where I break All The Rules…
As we started off in my last submission with my trip to Leo Carrillio State Park to photograph the Milky Way 3 years ago. While the photo was pleasing in many respects, it was a complete failure at capturing the Milky Way(you can see a bit of the galactic core, but that’s about it). Over the past couple of years I’ve searched for better locations and been mindful of the mistakes I made in the the photo that led my last submission to “On The Road”. I’ve been to the desert, the mountains and dark places along the coast to find the best place to capture the Milky Way on my cameras.
As the opportunity to capture the galactic core began to fade as Fall began, I headed again to Leo Carrillio State Park. Most of my journeys there that resulted in the photos here where not primarily to capture the Milky Way on my camera’s sensor, but for other photo ideas(sunsets, moon rises…). Yet, I did take my tripod and I did take pictures of the Milky Way before it made it’s early departure into the Pacific. Being that my primary motivation for the journey was not astrophotography, these shots sometimes violated “the rules” for shooting the Milky Way that I violated 3 years ago. I’ve included shots of the Milky Way with the Moon in the shot, the Milky Way in the full Moon, and the Milky Way at twilight. While many of these shots are drained of the color that you the viewer has seen in some of my other photos, I think they have a beauty in other ways.
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I’m not sure if Alain is going to post “On The Road” for Christmas Day or New Year’s Day, so I’ll take this opportunity to thank you all for your support this year.
Just after sunset at Leo Carillio State Park.
The sun has just set behind Santa Cruz Island and casts a warm glow over Sequit Point.
Twilight Milky Way by the sea.
This photo was originally a test shot. Pictures of the sunset were complete since the sun set and light was fading in the west. The Milky Way was fainly visible in the sky, but it wasn’t quite completely dark. Here, the last light of the sun is at the far right under the lifeguard station. The Milky Way is in the center with a meteor streaking past Jupiter and the bright light to the left? Los Angeles.
Milky Way at Sequit Point
This is a recreation of my first shot at Leo Carrillio shot correctly; without the moon and after astronomical twilight. The bright yellow light to the left is from Los Angeles.
Milky Way Over Lifeguard Station.
I stepped back a bit and captured a shot of the Milky Way’s galactic center directly over the light on top of the lifeguard station at Sequit Point.
Milky Way and the Moon at Twilight.
The Moon shines in the western sky at twilight as the Galactic Center of the Milky Way becomes visible in the fall southern sky in this shot at Leo Carrillio State Park.
Milky Way and Moonlit Lifeguard Station.
I went out to Leo Carrillio to get some shots of the rising moon and thought I’d try a shot of the Milky Way to see how’d it look in the light of the full moon.
JPL
Amazing as always.
eclare
Stunning. I like Milky Way Over the Lifeguard Station best.
mrmoshpotato
@eclare: But the lifeguard station full of cookies?
MagdaInBlack
Lovely way to start the new year. Thank you ?
Baud
The sunset one shouldn’t go unnoticed just because it doesn’t have stars. It’s beautiful.
arrieve
A wonderful start to the New Year — thanks, Bill. I particularly love the second shot with that bit of the sunset, but they’re all wonderful.
Quinerly
Gorgeous!
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MazeDancer
Gorgeous photos!
germy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03938-x
satby
I’m a sucker for sunset photos, and the milky way over the same lifeguard station is a great companion shot. Great as always Bill.
zhena gogolia
Very beautiful. Everyone should sign up as a patron for Bill on Patreon!
It’s Leo Carillo, not Carillio. Pancho and the Cisco Kid!
TomatoQueen
Happy New Year and thanks for these, BillinGlendaleCA (my parents’ home town), I like them all especially the sunset one.
Elizabelle
Love these. Especially the lifeguard station at night. Makes me miss roaming along the Pacific.
Happy New Year’s BiGl and fellow OTR (and Milky Way) fans.
Villago Delenda Est
Happy New Year, all Juicers, but Bill in Glendale especially, for these fantastic photos.
Totally OT, but I stumbled on this quote from Henning von Tresckow, a German general at the heart of many of the plots to kill Hitler, to include the July 20 plot that probably got the closest to doing the deed.
“I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler’s regime.”
The parallels with our own troubled times are eerie.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: Thanks.
@eclare: Yeah, it does kind of give the impression that the galactic center in is emanating from the light on the top of the lifeguard station.
@mrmoshpotato: It depends, do you have cookies enabled?
@MagdaInBlack: Happy New Year.
@Baud: I’ve taken a few more sunset pics recently.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@arrieve: I kind of like that one too, but the galactic center looses a bit of it’s color due to it not being really dark.
@Quinerly: Thanks?.
@MazeDancer: Thanks much.
@germy: The have a temporary exhibit at The Huntington that has sounds of the sky, kind of interesting.
@satby: How do you feel about sunrise photos, I got some good ones last week.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: Thanks for the correction, at least I was consistently wrong, heh. Thanks as well for the plug and your support as well. I hope you’re happy with the photos from the past month. I was just out getting pics of the B-2 as it was lining up for the Rose Parade flyover.
@TomatoQueen: Happy New Year from Glendale!
@Elizabelle: The lifeguard station makes a nice subject, next year I’m going to try and get the rocks of Sequit Point in the some pics.
@Villago Delenda Est: Thanks and Happy New Year.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I love all the pictures!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: I’ve got B-2 pics uploading right now.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
My husband will like that.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Beautiful NYE pics!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: The B-2 pics are up. I’ve not watched the Rose Parade in years(my one time seeing it in person was 40 years ago), but I swear I saw 2 B-2’s(I have an slightly out of focus pic that captured both).
@zhena gogolia: Thanks, I head to downtown every year to get pics of the downtown buildings before they stop the Christmas lighting.
FlipYrWhig
The lifeguard shack looks like the lunar lander!
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Neat!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@FlipYrWhig: They do look a bit like the lunar lander, others have noticed that as well.
jackmac
Beautiful images! I always wanted to get this kind of nighttime view, but light pollution (even in my location on the fringe of the Chicago area) prevents that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jackmac: You might be surprised, you can drive 50 miles south of Chicago and be in pretty much the same light pollution zone as where these photos were taken(Yellow Zone). Here’s a link to the Dark Sky Finder. Just keep in mind that the Milky Way viewing season doesn’t start until Spring(and even then it’s in the wee hours of the morning).