I went from mid-October to mid-December without so much as picking up my camera. I still have a bunch of autumn Adirondack photos from October that I haven't even edited yet. (It doesn't help that our old computer needs replacement and is not properly running the Picasa program I use for editing). My house is a wreck, and I am in the midst of the annual end-of-the-year-way-too-much-to-do rush. Gah! It's stressful.
BUT. I am grateful to a former colleague and camera enthusiast friend of mine for his nudge in the direction of my camera this week. I posted a comment on Facebook about seeing one of the Geminid meteors while I was taking the dogs out, and he immediately challenged me to a duel of the cameras: which of us could take a better photo of the meteors?

Unfortunately, I am no good at night photography. I have to do a lot more of it it seems, so I get the hang of all the settings. Most of my photos had so much noise in them that they were useless. I did, however, get one shot I liked. And since my friend's and my photography contest only required entry of one shot, I guess I did alright! Incidentally, I believe the brightness on the horizon in this shot is actually light pollution from the City of Syracuse, some 20+ miles away.
It was a lovely silent night for me. Hopefully I'll make time for more such nights in the near future. And I hope you all are making time for moments of frosty peace, too.
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ReplyDeleteNice shot! Yeh, I concur on the brightness at the bottom of the picture. So what shutter speed & ISO did you shoot at?
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