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Mountain Bluebird Photography
The Color of the Month Project (2023): Black July (Part 2)

I love long exposure photography, particularly of waterfalls and streams. In these photos, none of these images are actually black or even particularly dark (though maybe I upped the shadows and cranked the low ends a little bit...), but to get good long exposure images, you need to a use a neutral density or ND filter in front of your lens. This blocks light for a short image, but allows light to be collected for a long duration. The end result is an image that suggests movement but doesn't blow out the picture with lots of additional light capture.

In these photos, I used a 10 stop ND filter, which is effectively a black piece of glass over the lens. Set your shutter time for 5 second, 10 seconds, or more, and you get a nice photo of the movement of water smoothed out and maybe a bit ethereal, but the detail of the rest of the subject is still visible. These photos are from two different trips, including my backpacking trip from Black July Part I highlighting the Milky Way, and a recent dayhike near Breckenridge. I hope you enjoy viewing these long exposure waterfall shots as much as I enjoyed taking them.

#July #colorado #waterfalls #Black #landscapephotography #canonusa #camping #longexposurephotography
#longexposurephotography
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Mountain Bluebird Photography
The Color of the Month Project: Black July (Part 1)

Huh? What? How do you take photos of the color black? Isn't that the absence of light? Don't cameras need light to work? Are you off your rocker? Well, consider this a very liberal interpretation of the color black.

In Part 1, I decided to explore one of my favorite things to point my lens to; the night sky! We took our longest backpacking trip (in distance) in late July to go to Crater Lake and take shots of the Milky Way over Lone Eagle peak in the Indian Peaks Wilderness just south of Rocky Mountain National Park. Unfortunately, I didn't get a permit for right around crater lake and instead nabbed Canyon Creek permits. I thought I would make the hike to the lake in the dark and did a primary trip in the daytime to check it out and quickly discovered that was not a trail I wanted to attempt in the dark, so it was time to adapt, and I think Plan B worked out really well!

The first image in this set is my second attempt at a composite shot of the foreground and background, with the background being a stack of 20 photos. I learned some good lessons from my first experiment with a composite shot which resulted in the foreground being much more crisp and less grainy. The second image is really truly black in the foreground, with a 12 image stack for the night sky. The remaining images are all single 25 second exposures for fun. Can you spot the Big Dipper in the last photo?

#July #colorado #milkyway #mountains #stars #black #astrophotography #canonusa #backpacking #nightscapephotography
#nightscapephotography
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gentlegardener

IRS firings, some 9000 people. Remember that repugnant #congress did not want to staff up #irs for years? Denied capitulated then cut back on the requested increase.
This #government does not want to be efficient. Hell, this #regime does not want it to be solvent. They will do anything to avoid bringing in #tax #revenue.
Their goal is #destruction, their timeline is #July 2025.
@w7voa
#tuskShutdown
#dogees

From: @gentlegardener
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mastodon.scotgentlegardener (@gentlegardener@mastodon.scot)“After getting a favorable ruling to move forward, the so-called “deferred resignation” program closed Wednesday night, with 75,000 workers signing up…about three percent…higher pickup,…eight percent…at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…But some #IRS employees who took the offer were then told they had to stay until May 15 because their jobs were “essential” to tax filing season. It’s the first documented shenanigan of a program…still being challenged in court. https://prospect.org/labor/2025-02-15-federal-employee-red-wedding-firings-government/
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cohan

For a change from snowy views I decided to look at some of the *many* photos and videos I have from #summer that have not been edited/posted!
From #July : a not common #wildflower here-not flashy but hey it's #green and #flowering ! Sanicula marilandica a plant in the #Apiaceae or #Umbellifer Family (carrots, parsley, celery etc). They were in a spot I'd seen them before but not for a few years so I was excited! #biodiversity #NativePlants #Alberta #BloomScrolling #nature
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partial view of a green plant against green foliage of other plants and some dried grass stems. The plant has compound leaves composed of 5-7 narrow, toothed leaflets all radiating from a single point. It is topped with ball-like clusters of tiny greenish white flowers, some of the clusters have a fuzzy look from the stamens poking out, others may be tidier with female flowers?
Somewhat closer view of same plant as first pic, showing flowers closer
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