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Oh, and Don, we did go to the Ethiopian restaurant. Excellent! And also to a place called Bullock’s Bistro in the old town, where they serve fresh fish caught from the lake. Very good too.
After having learned how to reduce the size nicely in LightRoom, a few more. I hope not to bore you.
Very cute. You could have created an eclipse.
(I always wandered what those balls on high voltage wires are for.)
Thank you Laurence.
The most trouble I have with posting more pics is that they are huge. Anywhere from 14 MB to over 20 MB. So I am trying to resize them with various tools, but the result is tiny pics in the less than 100 KB range. Obviously, some detail is lost. So excuse the quality.
Anyway, here are two. The first is how we were greeted on the second night as we got out of the van. The second one is later the same night. I like it because clouds show up. Altocumulus.
And further, this shot possibly captured a 44 degree parhelion, or at least a piece of the 46 degree halo. Look at the right side at the horizon level, about the same distance as from the sun to the sun dog. There is faint patch of color next to an object that raises above the tree line (perhaps the airport radar).
Opinions?
horizon level.To continue on the sun dogs I posted on the new year’s day clouds thread, I was in the Yellowknife airport when I noticed it. I had a very poor viewing angle and I kept moving from window to window to get a better one. (The shot that I have posted I took from the tarmac as I was walking to board the plane. I only had a few seconds.) In the shots from inside, earlier, I notice something that is a bit of a puzzle for me. There is a sun and there is a bright spot below it (subsun?). And the sun dog is at the same level as the subsun. Also the parhelic circle is below the sun. I could not find anything like this on the atoptics site, maybe I did not search deep enough.
Got home late yesterday. During the trip I did not have my laptop to transfer the pictures to. On occasion I used a hotel computer, but that’s not very productive. I still need to work on my pictures. Aurora is not so easy to photograph. It can be too faint or too strong. It can move slow or fast. Equipment freezes, it got as cold as -33F (-37C). But you are not cold when you see the aurora.
There are two kinds of aurora. One is rather static, large or small swaths of (mostly) green in the sky, moving quite slowly. You would have to watch them patiently to see changes. And then there is the dancing aurora. That is the magnificent one. These are the curtains that move and descend on you and the little fringes that travel along the curtains bottoms, typically red in my experience. If you have not seen the dancing aurora you will be very content with the “static” one. In fact, what we saw first was static and we loved it. We took pictures and we said, this is great. And then, things started moving. And everybody was saying OMG! At some distance there was a rather large group of tourists and they were screaming with joy. We were absolutely ecstatic.
That show is difficult to capture because the movement is what makes it sublime. I took some video, but that’s event more tricky than taking pictures. I’ll have to cut it a bit before I share it.
So here is one more quasi random shot. My (Sony) camera is notorious for being biased towards the green color. I have Light Room, which supposedly can be used to adjust just one color without reducing the others, but I still need to learn how to use it. I think the white in the shot above is also a camera sensor side effect. (And the white object in the shot below is the moon.)
Before I go, Don your advice was very helpful, thank you! And thanks to all for your compliments.
I am making my way back home where I can get the pics off the card and size them down to less than 3MB to be uploadable. We had three very successful nights of “chasing”. Tired but very happy. Will post a few soon.
Happy new year!
Technically, it was still December 31 in the location where I took this shot, but there were places on earth where the new year had started. Happy New Year everyone! May your 2019 be filled with great opportunities to see beautiful clouds.
Keelin, Hans, I like your sun dogs. Here is something from the sun, but not sure what. Maybe a UTA? This is about 10 minutes after sunset. The sun has set right below the color patch.
(Slightly enhanced.)
horizon level.
