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On The Road – ?BillinGlendaleCA – Above Neverland

by WaterGirl|  August 18, 20215:00 am| 27 Comments

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?BillinGlendaleCA

One of the photographers that I have been shooting with this year has been touting the hills above the Santa Ynez Valley as a great place to shoot for the last year or so. We had originally planned to shoot at the Alabama Hills for the new Moon, but the smoke forecast up there was grim, so we headed out to Santa Ynez. Unfortunately the smoke followed us there as we discovered as the sun set over the distant Pacific.

The site we shot from is in the Los Padres National Forest northeast of Los Olivos and we past Micheal Jackson’s former home, the Neverland Rand, just before we headed up the narrow and winding road into the hills. As the sun set, we shot the Sun that was more orange due to the smoke in the air. After astronomical twilight we began shooting Milky Way shots.

I decided to use my star tracker for this shoot and was using my Surface Pro to connect to the iPolar to do polar alignment. I didn’t test this out (I tried it when I first got the iPolar device and it didn’t connect), and encountered trailing stars with zoomed in long exposures. I also had a cable problem between my wireless trigger and my camera since for some reason, the cable that the manufacture of the trigger designed for my camera didn’t work (I had a backup that did work).

My initial shots of the Milky Way were 30 second stacked shots, once I got the cable to work, the second were 4 minute tracked shots. I went on to use my zoom lens to attempt to capture the Lagoon and Trifid nebula, but ran into the trailing stars problem on the 4 minute test shots, so I shot it with a series of 30 second exposure.

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Los Olivos, CAAugust 7, 2021

Setting sun to the west.

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Los Olivos, CAAugust 7, 2021

I attempted to generate a starburst effect from the sun by narrowing the aperture on my lens..

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Los Olivos, CAAugust 7, 2021

You can really see the layer of smoke in this shot.

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Los Olivos, CAAugust 7, 2021

The sun finally drops into the distant Pacific.

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Los Olivos, CAAugust 7, 2021

Milky Way over the Santa Ynez Valley, shot with a sequence of 30 second exposures and stacked.

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Los Olivos, CA

Four minute exposure of the sky and foreground taken separately.

On The Road -  ?BillinGlendaleCA - Above Neverland
Los Olivos, CAAugust 7, 2021

The Lagoon and Trifid nebula.

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27Comments

  1. 1.

    p.a.

    August 18, 2021 at 5:26 am

    Great work as always but, those sunset shots… Eye of Sauron?

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    Mel

    August 18, 2021 at 5:51 am

    These photos are so vibrant, beautiful, and peaceful.

    Thank you for sharing these gorgeous images. Ā The first one might be my favorite – the juxtaposition of the remnant blue daytime sky against the fiery orange sunset is wonderful.

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    Wag

    August 18, 2021 at 6:07 am

    Love the nebulae shot

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    Mary G

    August 18, 2021 at 6:13 am

    Every SoCal person knows pollution makes a fabulous sunset. Your
    Milky Way shots awe beautiful. Typo left in on purpose.

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    raven

    August 18, 2021 at 6:47 am

    Nice, that pollution is making for good sunrises here too.

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    JPL

    August 18, 2021 at 6:57 am

    Bill, Awesome as usual but I really love the contrasting colors in the first photo.Ā  Ā  Ā Thanks for sharing them.

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    Quantumman

    August 18, 2021 at 7:12 am

    Thanks for your photos.Ā  Awesome!Ā  You are a master!

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    MomSense

    August 18, 2021 at 7:35 am

    All of your photos are amazing, but those sunsets have me all the feels.

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    HinTN

    August 18, 2021 at 8:03 am

    These are magnificent, Mr inGlendale. I’ve not commented recently but lurkingly looked at all.

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    WaterGirl

    August 18, 2021 at 8:19 am

    @Mel: Mine, too!

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    arrieve

    August 18, 2021 at 8:27 am

    Those are some gorgeous sunsets. I laughed at the Trifid Nebula — I repost pictures from APOD on my blog, and yesterday did one of the Trifid Nebula. Which always makes me think of the awful movie The Day of the Triffids, featuring Howard Keel fighting carnivorous plants.

    The nebula is much better.

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    J R in WV

    August 18, 2021 at 8:57 am

    Day of the Triffids — long time ago!

    Great sunsets, too.

    Thanks Bill, you inspire me. Rain and Flooding here, hope I can get out now for the Dr appointment. You all take care!

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    SkyBluePink

    August 18, 2021 at 9:57 am

    If the Sun had an eye it would look like the first photo-

    Wonderful pics, as usual!

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 12:11 pm

    @p.a.: Thanks, I shot more sunsets last Saturday.

    @Mel: Glad you like it, there’s a bit of Lightroom magic with the blue sky.

    @Wag: I’m going to try for a better one next year.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 12:17 pm

    @Mary G: Pollution and clouds make for the best sunsets.

    @raven: This is true, generally we get better sunsets due to more clouds on the coast.

    @JPL: You’re welcome, as I noted above, a bit of post-processing magic.

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    stinger

    August 18, 2021 at 12:38 pm

    The second image makes me feel like someone witnessing their own sun suddenly going supernova, with all the awe and terror and the-end-of-all-things that would entail. Love the gleam of light (the last light they will ever see!) on the foreground plants. Neverland, indeed.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    @Quantumman: Thanks.

    @MomSense: I’ve shot more, but a bit closer to home.

    @HinTN: Thanks, don’t lurk too much.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 12:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: A bit of digital darkroom magic.

    @arrieve: I saw the APOD(I look at them every day), stunning shot.

    @J R in WV: Glad you like the sunsets,. good luck with the Dr.’s appointment.Ā  What is this rain you speak of?

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 12:44 pm

    @SkyBluePink: Thanks, I love shooting sunsets.

    @stinger: I think the supernova would be a bit brighter.Ā  I’m really trying to work on getting sunbursts out of my sun shots.

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    HinTN

    August 18, 2021 at 1:10 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I’m really trying to work on getting sunbursts out of my sun shots.

    They’re the reins of Haleakala and gorgeous to boot.

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    Jess

    August 18, 2021 at 1:25 pm

    I went to high school at Midland, the back-to-the-land boarding school across the street from Neverland (the Neverland property was then owned by the family of one of my classmates). It’s a beautiful area, and I feel blessed for the opportunity to make it my home during my formative years. Were you up on Grass Mountain?

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 1:42 pm

    @HinTN: I think they work better when the sun is brighter though…

    @Jess: We shot a bit further east along Figueroa Mt. Road, before the ranger station.

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    Jess

    August 18, 2021 at 3:31 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: 
    Cool–lucky you! Hope it doesn’t all burn …

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    J R in WV

    August 18, 2021 at 3:58 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Glad you like the sunsets,. good luck with the Dr.’s appointment. What is this rain you speak of?

    Flash Flood warning for my little hollow and all the counties around us. Back home now, two big trees down that the neighbors cut and bucked off the road, otherwise things are OK.

    ETA… I think it was moisture from tropical storm Fred…

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    August 18, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    @Jess: Hope so too, last year’s fires in the San Gabriels were brutal.

    @J R in WV: Good to hear you made home safely.

  26. 26.

    eachother

    August 18, 2021 at 10:36 pm

    Phenomenal photos. Ā Alive with energy.

  27. 27.

    Tehanu

    August 18, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    @p.a.:  That’s the first thing I thought of too!

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