[Leica] IMG: Lone Cypress

[Howard Ritter]

My favorite is next to the ones you mentioned in your post, #6 in the thumbnails. Besides being esthetically a knockout, Bob, this is really a remarkable image, capturing the night sky fairly deeply without blasting out the highlights of the lighthouse. Any technical wizardry there, as in Photoshop? 

This image combines one of my favorite spots on Earth with one of my favorite spots in the sky, the southern Milky Way, showing the asterism called the Teapot (the brightest 8 or 9 stars in the left half) in the constellation Sagittarius, with a rich localized part of the Milky Way called the Scutum Star Cloud, here shown as a bluish cloud just above where the beam from the lighthouse seems to be pointing, rising like a puff of vapor from the spout on the right side of the Teapot, which is tipped over about 45 degrees.

If you’re not an amateur astronomer, I recommend that you google for a local astronomy club (millions of ‘em in CA) and find out when they’re having public viewing sessions at a dark-sky location this summer. Find the club member with the biggest binoculars (really big, on a tripod) on the field and ask him to show you the sights of the southern Milky Way around Sagittarius and Scutum. Cup your hands around the eyepieces to keep out stray light and lose yourself in the stars while you linger a couple of minutes at each stop. It will be a memorable experience. There was a nice essay describing this in the Focal Point readers’ essay on the last page of the magazine in the “Sky and Telescope” issue of February 2015. I’ll email you a copy.


—howard


> On Feb 16, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nope. It was duked out in court with the PPA. 
> 
> Bob Adler
> Robert Adler Photography
> www.robertadlerphotography.com
> 
>> On Feb 15, 2016, at 10:36 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Don't you have to pay licensing fee?! The Sunset is my favorite of the
>> bunch. Thanks
>> 
>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Probably a different view of the Pebble Beach, 17 Mile Drive landmark:
>>> 
>>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p463316036/h6d3a0b06#h6d3a0b06
>>> M240 + M 21/f1,4+M 35/f1,4
>>> 
>>> Two other images are after this one from last week in the Monterey, Carmel
>>> and Big Sur:
>>> Bench View - Pt. Lobos
>>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p463316036/h6c3a61a0#h6c3a61a0
>>> Alpa+Credo 50+50mm Rodenstock
>>> 
>>> Julia Pfeiffer Falls Sunset:
>>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p463316036/h6c3a61a0#h68c7f468
>>> Leica M 240 + M 35mm/f1,4
>>> 
>>> Hope you enjoy.
>>> Best,
>>> Bob
>>> 
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