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Who is for a Milky Way coffee?
You were my beacon of salvation
I was your starlight
The starry lighthouse.
Mie, Japan.
Antler
12" by 15" Linocut print, second of the animals/objects series-thing
three little mice are nibbling on the antler, this is an image I pretty much absolutely had to do. everybody who knows anything about deer also knows that mice will eat antlers. one of the reasons mother can let her animal bones collection sit outside in all weather is that because of the resident cats we don't have enough rodents to eat them and they'll be fine. my grandfather made a left handed knife for himself out of an antler he picked up and it has mice nibble marks on it. also I get questions about "so what happened to that other antler? so here's your answer. eaten by three mice.
this piece also has more roses, I was kinda thinking about mom's bone/antler/tooth collection on the bullet-catcher under the rose bush, and I was thinking about being home. a lot of the time the plants are an environmental symbol. roses for home, ivy for college, grape vines for parties and bars, things like that. I'm quite fond of climbing plants and I consider them to be kind of sinister and aggressive (you would too if you'd ever fought back mom's roses or the unending sea of blackberries) even as they usually just come off as decorative to most people.
I was also feeling like my ideas for the things that I do were under a lot of criticism. which I can either usually brush off or use constructively to make improvements, but this was the kind of criticism where I was just being told my art was worthless and I was just feeling like I was being ripped up over it. and then I was making this at the end of the year, so I was in a huge hurry to do everything and put together everything anyway, I had no mental-energy-spoons left in the drawer to use for my usual brush-off, so I just made some good art about it.
lot of the time that's all you can do.
The Milky Way, as seen from Pittsburgh’s North Park.
Light pollution limits some of the clarity, but I’m pretty happy with the results.
Old Growth and Ancient Light
The Milky Way sets behind old growth forest on top of Gaudineer Knob in West Virginia. One of the areas with the least light pollution on the East Coast, the Monongahela National Forest is ideal for astrophotography (as long as you can find a clearing).
Two views of the Pleiades from the sky last night over Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Wide Angle, and Extreme Telephoto.
The Milky Way and Mars in the sky over Pittsburgh’s North Park. Shot with an 18-55 kit lens, and a 1972-era 12mm f/11 fisheye, respectively. Anybody wanna buy me a modern ultrawide lens? Like 14 or 15 millimeter?
Took part of an evening from a recent business trip to find some dark(er) skies to try to get some Milky Way photos.
I was aiming for some Bortle Class 2 skies, but due to road closures and my own failing alertness I settled for Class 4 skies. Still enough for a this shot with some sensor-based tracking and a ton of post-processing.
Pentax K-3 with GPS, Rokinon 14mm f2.8. f4, 90s, ISO400
Two shots of the Milky Way from a hilltop in central Pennsylvania, nice and far from any major city or source of light pollution. The orange glow and haze near the horizon comes mostly from smoke particles still blowing down from Canada. The first shot was during nautical twilight, and the second was shot two hours later during the darkest portion of the night.
two perseid meteors captured on the 12th of august 2021 in Romania between 01:34-01:46 local time (UTC+3)
I am now going on a school excursion for 4 days in another city. Time the pack. My friends are wanting to share now😂😂