Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!)

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  1. AllanMarcus

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    Arches...one of my favorite places on the Planet. Absolutely beautiful.

    Here's a photo from Dead Horse Point near Canyonlands (which is near Arches, as you know...)
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    Sunrise at Dead Horse Point...
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  3. AllanMarcus

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    I went there too (and all five of the Na Parks) on my recent trip. Here's my DHP pic. Yours is much better :)

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    Chief Mountain and the Lewis Range, MT, viewed S up the Belly River from just over the Alberta border, fall 2003:

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    Worser Bay & Wellington Harbour (NZ), viewed N from the ancestral home with the aid of a graduated neutral filter, late 1980s or perhaps early 90s:

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    Was able to finally visit Iceland, albeit just for 48 hours as an extended layover on the way home from a couple weeks in Europe. Got super, duper lucky and was able to grab a few decent shots of the Aurora Borealis while on an excursion booked by my wife. I say super duper lucky because the KP index was only a 2 and there was a ton of cloud cover (it had snowed that afternoon). Our guide drove like an absolute maniac, but he really knew his stuff. It took almost 2 hours of driving around in the middle of the night, but we finally got this:
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    Faint, but pretty clear. We moved on after a bit of freezing our asses off (I have never experienced wind chill like that and I have lived through polar vortexes in Chicago). Happy I got a picture since it wasn't looking good for us at first, but a little bummed it wasn't cooler. Then our dude swerves off the road and starts shouting about how good a feeling he has. We got out and were greeted with this:
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    I am so excited we got something this magnificent, but bummed that the wind was so strong I couldn't get a perfectly focused/still shot. Still, this made everything worth it and a trophy pic for me, especially since I wouldn't even consider myself a hobbyist quite yet (still very much noob). The wind almost toppled my tripod twice, so when I go again, I am going to get something heavier, or use some weights to stabilize my travel tripod (and use a remote trigger maybe).
    One more bonus shot from our way back into town after he pulled over one last time. I like this one because it has good color, but also some really clear stars.
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    I cannot wait to go back now that I understand the weather and even my camera better now (I was trying to treat the aurora like regular astrophotograpy with long shutter speeds and low iso, but it works better with shorter exposure times and higher iso to capture the details and movement. A lot of shots have great color and light, but just a big blob since the aurora moves so much). I was fumbling around with frozen fingers trying to set manual focus while also trying to not have my gear blown into a ditch, so better preparation (and continued luck) should help me get even better pics in the future.

    Sorry for the narrative accompaniment, but I am so very pleased with being able to get even just a few shots, I had to babble. A dream come true as an amateur trying to get better at photography.
     
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    It is really tough to get a good shot, and it sounds like you picked a good tour! My wife & I went in December and had a fantastic time. We booked a whale watching /Aurora tour where you go out in the day then back out at night.

    The Whale watching was the highlight & might be my favorite photo despite being a mere cell snapshot.

    For some reason I'm getting an "uploads not available" message?
    I'll link it:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/ppeYf7jo9pgW4mpcA

    We had less luck with the Aurora despite having a pretty clear night. Edit: I don't recommend the boat tour for the Aurora. They never leave the bay so there's too much light pollution IMO. We were able to see it, but it wasn't very dramatic....less dramatic than this crappy shot:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/h7gpUCPzFV7rnvuV9
     
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    managed to catch the C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) comet late last oct
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    edit. what hosting site do you guys use to host pics?i cant seem to find one that works particularly well
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