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Featured Work

Total Solar Eclipse 4 December 2002 by Ern Mainka

Total Solar Eclipse 4 December 2002, near Woomera, South Australia. Fuji GSW690 (6×9cm format), Fujinon 65mm wide angle lens, Fuji Velvia film. The shadow of the Moon as it travels across the Earths surface is only about 30km wide. This photo was taken just seconds before the end of totality with the tail end of the Moons shadow rapidly approaching. / © Ern Mainka
crated full moon by wend

I was experimenting with the zoom on my new camera ,and WOW what a shot.
Total Solar Eclipse 4 December 2002 by Ern Mainka

Total Solar Eclipse 4 December 2002, near Woomera, South Australia. Rollieflex SL66 (6×6cm format), 300mm lens, cropped image.
Orion by asianteacherman

New Year’s Eve
Shooting stars over Everest by Andrew Wilson

Two of my favorite photos combined to emphasise the size and power of nature. / I hope you like.
Listening to Stars Under Moonlight on the Plains of San Agustin by FortPhoto

A view illuminated by a near full moon looking down specialized train tracks that are used for positioning the 27 independent radio antennae into position at the Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico. This is where the movie Contact was based. This is also really a fantastic place to visit.
El Capitan By Night by Philip Wong

Canon EOS 20D, EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, Focal Length: 10mm, Aperture: f/3.5, Exposure: 10min, ISO100 I spent a cold March evening walking around the Yosemite Valley floor looking for a good spot to compose a decent timelapse photo before settling on this spot where the Northern celestial pole was directly behind the prow of El Capitan. There was almost a full moon that night putting out so much light that any exposures longer than about 15 minutes resulted in a whiteout. I came up with this image after spending about an hour experimenting with different ISO, exposure and aperture settings. / / To see more night images of Yosemite Valley, click on the images below: / / / / / /
Comet McNaught by DuncanW

Jan 21 2007. 3 film exposures stacked to improve quality. Still twilight, so faint details lost.
Abstract Earth by Asmah Najib

A work I did of a photograph of Earth.
Startrails and Human Journeys by Geoff Coleman

Taken looking south to Wollongong from Providential Point, Royal National Park, just south of Sydney Australia. / This is my first attempt at a multi-exposure blend. This image is a combinations of 57 X 30sec exposures using the fantastic Startrails Photoshop Action that you can download free from this excellent site: / www.schursastrophotography.com/software/photoshop/startra… I was put on to this action by Dave Burrow whose amazing startrails image can be seen here: / http://www.redbubble.com/people/davidburrows/art/321722-3-startrails The brilliant thing about this PS action is that the longest exposure you need to take is 30sec and so it virtually eliminates the noise problem of conventional long exposure startrails. You can imagine how much noise this shot would have as a 30min exposure. / The straight lines are some of 9 planes that flew through these exposures over the half-hour I was taking them – amazingly consistent flight paths. It got so busy I had to delete some of the planetrails, hence the little gaps in the startrails.
winking at you by jack01

moon over bribie island
Olympus mons by littleredplanet

This is an educational cartoon series I created at the end of last year. I created it as content for the www.kids4mars.com site. This site is currently being redesigned and we are looking for designers, artists or cartoonists to volunteer artwork or design work. If you interested, send me a bubblemail ;-)

Recent Work

Approaching Full Moon by Peter Hill

8.15pm EST, Wednesday 15 May 2008, Sydney, Australia. Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Diffractive Optics Telephoto Zoom Lens with Image Stabiliser, at 300mm. Hand-held, 1/180th of a second at 6.7, ISO 200. In Photoshop CS2: Sharpened, Cooling (80) Filter at 60% Density.
The Raging Stillness #2 by Geoff Coleman

This is a photoblend of 91 X 30 second exposures using the brilliant Startrails photoblend action that you can download from here / This is the 45 minute storm in one shot – in other words it’s the opposite end of the spectrum from the timelapse version I recently posted here / Trippy huh! / The large white streak in the sky is the moontrail, the little ones are startrails. The long lines sweeping across the sky are planes taking off and landing and the ones on the water are fishing trawlers. / A couple of curious things in this image. The first is the clear section of cloud above the main lightning strikes versus the blurred cloud around them. I think this is the result of these clouds being flashlit by each of the 20 odd lightning strikes whereas the other clouds were lit evenly by the moon in each image and hence blurred in the blend (hope that makes sense). / The other weird thing is that strange green line just above the middle planetrail near the centre of the image. It isn’t parallel to the startrails so isn’t one of them and satellites move so fast that one of those would have shown up as a long streak like the planetrails – any ideas? Taken off the cliffs at Bundeena, Royal National Park, Sydney Australia. / Canon EOS 1Ds MkIII / EF 16-35mm f/2.8 LII USM / Tv: 30sec / Av: f/3.5 / ISO: 200 / FL: 17mm
Phase One by Peter Hill

Sydney, Australia – 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th May, 2008. Waxing Crescent to Full Moon – Phase One of project. Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Diffractive Optics Telephoto Zoom Lens with Image Stabiliser, at 300mm. Hand-held. Didn’t quite get 10th May right.
Orion's Leap by Stephen Permezel

Constellation Orion leaping over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, South Australia /
Waxing Crescent by Peter Hill

Waxing Crescent Moon, Sydney, Australia, 6.05pm EST, Friday 9 May 2008. Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Diffractive Optics Telephoto Zoom Lens with Image Stabiliser, at 300mm, 1/15th second, hand-held. See also Waxing Crescent II – IV shot the following night
Waxing Crescent II - IV by Peter Hill

Waxing Crescent Moon, Sydney, Australia, 8.10pm EST, Saturday 10 May 2008. Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Diffractive Optics Telephoto Zoom Lens with Image Stabiliser, at 300mm. Three hand-held consecutive shots, each at f/5.6 at, starting with the first, 1/20th, 1/30th, and then 1/45th of a second. See also Waxing Crescent shot the night before. LARGER view recommended (click on image)
Lights in the Dark by William Carne

Camera : Sony A-100 / Date and time taken : 12 April 2008. Various times / Focal length : various / F-Number : various / ISO : 100 / Exposure Time : various / Location: Calgary, AB, Canada / Post: The stars are painted in photoshop from scratch. The tree and model are two different pictures that were desaturated and 100% darkened to create the silhouette effect. This idea was inspired from a shot in the movie “The Fountain” where Hugh Jackman is practicing Thai Chi in silhouette in front of stars. I’m doing a series of nudes in mysterious/almost supernatural landscapes and thought this would be a good way to start it. Make sure you click on the picture to view it at max. resolution. Since it is black on black it doesn’t look like much in the smaller images. The first image of my “Dreams” series.
Comet McNaught over Stonehenge by Anthony Caffery

For something a little unique – The ghostly ambiance of Comet McNaught over Stonehenge.