Steve Paxton's photos

Mandurah Crab festival note Pre Covid times.

Some times its best to stay a little longer....

60 shot with the 600mm Lens en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Centauri PIP inside the bow next to the pointers.

This Is the plant after the summer dry and no water at all. Today has been our first day of rain the whole day so I have put it out in the rain to wake up from the Summer Sleep. PIP one shows the winter colour. PIP 2 shows last years summer colour even on the rocks it is the same as my colour this year. gardentravelhub.com/bushwalk-from-sullivan-rock-to-mt-cooke this will be interesting to see it change the moss has already started to go green after the days rain and the leave more orange colour. PIP 3 show the plant after two weeks water.

At a new road construction the only one working the rest where at the Van buying smoko

a home and fence completely made of the typical Building material Corrugated Iron sheets. Welcome to australia "1896 R.J Stewart Dairy"

I went out to try and get better. PiP shows the 14mm view. 56 shots stacked in Sequator with the matching back files all up 200+ shots used to get this. Hardest part I find is then having to edit the photo as we cant see this detail by eye at all. Surpasses my first few shots. I feel happier with the method of set up on this and how it turned out. no I did not look for the 4 stars I looked for the stars trailing and moved to reverse it 5 goes I was happy pin points 2m 35sec and no tracking @ 200mm. BUT pays to lock the head back down so I went to the old ways to try a beat the clouds coming in.

The place was a total black area but for the cloud cover we had each night. On the third day I could see the Southern Cross and the Pointers so I took off. when I set up the wind was so strong it caused shake in the shot so I moved the tripod behind a bush to get out of the wind. I shot from right to left as the clouds where moving very fast. you will note the movement between the first and second shot. It only took 10 min of shot time and my view of the stars was totally washed out. this was the sum total of stars I saw the whole trip clear days clouded in at night. PIP shows you all I got for the second row. in this shot I have tried to mask out the cloud areas but there is just too much to get a great photo. Who every said Astro photography is easy this was the total stars I saw in the whole time.

The place was a total black area but for the cloud cover we had each night. On the third day I could see the Southern Cross and the Pointers so I took off. when I set up the wind was so strong it caused shake in the shot so I moved the tripod behind a bush to get out of the wind. I shot from right to left as the clouds where moving very fast. you will note the movement between the first and second shot. I got the first row done and was coming back to get the whole bow left to right. i got but 3 shots and then it was total cloud cover I waited to see if it clears and I got lucky but to no avail hence the missing shot on the top row on the right. It only took 10 min of shot time and my view of the stars was totally washed out. in this shot I have tried to mask out the cloud areas but there is just too much to get a great photo. Who every said Astro photography is easy.

The bay next to Lucky bay and the same pink granite and lovely clear water

The bay is very famous for Kangaroos laying on the beach as the water from the land flows out of the sand to keep them cool. no luck today just a bay packed with people , White sand and Blue water. note the plane that flew to the eastern states from Perth.

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