Looks ethereal 

Pikes Peak, CO prominence: 5,530 ft. Height: 14,107 ft.
 

Pre-sunset white. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm...

What little color there was on the horizon before the light got shut off. Taken with the 24-70mm at 63mm and cropped in camera...

You know ... once in a while I pop out to post some photos from my homeland in the foothills of the italian Alps

This time I have, since early june, something new: a DJI Mini2 drone

Here some photos and videos of these past 2-3 months around my hometown

The camera NEEDS to EXCEL in LOW-LIGHTING and ZOOMING capabilities, WITHOUT graininess, blurring & coarseness.  As I poured through a number of cameras, the market release dates were all in the late 2017's era.  It seems they're letting PHONE cameras take over the market.  

Any insights on this subject, for the BEST camera in highest resolution, zooming, and low-lighting??

Starting off the new year with a sunrise.  Can not tell but it was -6F when these were imaged. I must be a little messed up in the head to be out and taking these. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Taken with the 24-70mm at 45mm...

First sunset of the new year that I could get to and was not a stratus fest

Starting off with the yellow. Taken with the 100mm...

The red starting to roll into the area. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

More of a wide angle view of the red. Taken with the 24-70mm at 47mm...

Finally a beautiful and "oldstyle" snowstorm in my town, after these last years of misery with few snowfalls and hardly above 4".

In the night and morning of December 28th, my town received about 16", of which 10" in less that 5 hours between 7:30am and midday.

Some pics during the storm

Short clip

Clearings by the late afternoon from on of my webcams

The day after with some residual snowshowers

Some pics of the past few days

http://stevealbers.net/allsky/cases/les/les_15deg_cyl.mp4 (fly through)

http://stevealbers.net/ (home page)

https://cfd.engr.uconn.edu/data/ (UConn cloud data)

Steve

Using a planning app (PhotoPills), I was able to determine that the Milky Way would align with my position along a colorful ridge line after dark. I took a series of blue hour photos to capture the foreground while it was still dimly lit by the fading twilight. I combined the data of these photos into one image that could pull out the color detail of the foreground landscape.

When dark fell, I took a series of long exposures and combined their data in a program called Sequator. I brought the detail of the Milky Way out of the background using Photoshop, then I blended the foreground data with the night sky data for a composite.

I used a Sony A7RIII camera body and a Sigma 14-24 f/2.8 lens, but you can get similar results with much cheaper setups. It's all in the processing.

When I say "combining data," I'm talking about stacking, a process that aligns several images and averages out the data so that what stays behind is only the pixels that stay the same through the sequence. This eliminates transient objects, like hot pixels and thermal noise - the reason so many low-light photos look so grainy.

The weather conditions were cool and clear, so clear that you can actually see a little airglow in the photo.

Tonight the clouds were on the horizon so I went out into the county and farmland to get a clear view. Some nice color even if it was quite a distance away.

Start off looking northwest as the red was creeping into the area. Taken with 24-70mm at 70mm.

Max red to the west. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Some faint but broad crepuscular rays from some over-the-horizon clouds. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm...

Cheers!

I wrote an article for TheInertia.com about a picture I took following the January 29th, 2022 snowstorm that hit our region.  For many in PA, this wasn't a very great event, maybe 4-6 inches, but for those along the central shores of New Jersey, it was a different story.  Thanks to some of the reports on this site, I made the call to drive down to LBI for sunrise and captured a bunch of really great shots of the snow along with the remaining swell in the water.  I submitted some of the shots from this prolific morning of photography to theinertia.com's annual surf photo contest.  They reached out to me on instagram and asked me to send a few sentences over about a particular shot.  Since "I have an unhealthy obsession with snow and waves", I sent them over 1,500 words.

Click here to read the article: All-Time: 'How I Captured This Freeze Frame of a Frozen A-Frame

Below is a satellite image from the day I took the picture, displaying the cold offshore flow and clear conditions following the system.  

Sorry, I'm not a good phtographer but I don't have any better place to drop these pics.  These are of Aomori, Japan in mid-December.  Will try to get some more pics these weeks (the snow is deeper now). 

お疲れ様でした

shoutout to bowtie the midwest cloud photography og

 Finally broke the run of 100% stratus today. Good thing it as my day off of work.

Started off with a vertical image at 48mm...

A normal orientation at 26mm...

Among other things, I was living in Flagstaff, AZ during our record-breaking 24 hour snowfall in 2019.  We got 35.9 inches of snow on February 21, 2019!  It kept me from driving for a few days afterwards.  What's the most snow you've experienced?

I'll post this very interesting APOD about the blue color in the moon being due to atmospheric ozone!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151003.html

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