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Published: 2009-06-21 01:59:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 28882; Favourites: 1678; Downloads: 0
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Split Point, Airey's Inlet Lighthouse, Victoria, Australia with the Southern Hemisphere's half of the Milky Way in the background.It looks as if the light house is guarding the galaxy from disaster.
The moment I saw the result on my camera's LCD screen, I knew I had an amazing opportunity here. I stood there for a good hour in the blistering cold shooting long exposures. I wanted to capture the stars with as little Earth-rotation as possible. The Light house itself is lit from passing cars in the distance during the exposure.
I diddn't even notice the shooting star, but the camera did, in almost every exposure there were at least one.
This is a single exposure of 14mm, 400ISO, 2.8f, 69s
WINNER of 4th place in the Science category in the 2009 International Aperture awards [link]
GOLD award in the Science and Nature category of the 2010 AIPP National Awards
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Thanks, was a bit of a fluke all those years ago
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Nah he's my cousin, I'm far more powerful.
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Congratulations, your photograph has been featured in the group, Those-Lovely-Lights. You can view it here: [link] .
~Blostma1
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your lovely work is featured at - have a look please and enjoy [link]
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Just awesome....... would you mind if Everyland added this and a couple of other shots to our travel photography gallery...?
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one of the most epic things I've seen on this site so far. Enjoy a llama good sir!
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There aren't enough words in all the world's languages to express my jealousy right now. Simply an amazing shot.
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Beautiful, just beautiful! I LOVE IT! The meteor looks perfect!
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Yay! This deviation has been featured on the #Scapelicious latest feature journal!
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I"ve already commented on what an amazing photo this was but I'm curious to know, how did you get it so well in focus? I can't seem to get to right when I take picture of the stars and it seems every time I have a goo photo it's actually out of focus. Is there a trick to getting it in focus? I have trouble because it's so dark.
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Yes there is a trick, one that I learnt while doing this shot. This one I auto focused on the light house as a car drove by, but now I take a torch with me where ever, and shine it on the foreground, auto focus, then change it to manual focus before I take the shot, that way it's in focus before I open the shutter. Then I can turn off the torch and take the shot.
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round the twist was one of my favourite shows when i was a kid...i love it!
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You've been featured in my new journal..(link) !
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