Greetings to all my 365 friends! Wishing you all joy and happiness during this holiday season and continued success with your amazing photo images
in the coming year!
I'm thrilled to give full credit to my husband Mark for this star trails shot taken during our Burma adventure. He's the astrophotography guy who got "dragged" to Burma and ended up taking the most incredible photos; the majority were far superior to mine. This is his story of this image of a starry, starry night. If you look in the center of the smallest circle, you'll see the North Star.
"We arranged our tripods and cameras in the early morning hours amidst a forested, eerily beautiful setting of ancient pagodas and stupas near the bank of the Irrawaddy River, a 45- minute drive from Mandalay. This is where Kublai Khan supposedly established an encampment during the Mongol invasions of Burma during their successful campaign to capture Bagan, the capital of the Pagan Kingdom in Burma between 1277 and 1287. This circumpolar star trail is comprised of nearly 200 stacked images of 30-second exposures using an intervalometer with a Canon 20d."
Superb.....excellent.....amazing!! I hope one day to do one of these just as successfully as Mark, even though that is a tall order!!! Amazing capture and processing!! Kudos to Mark! And, Happy Holidays to both of you.....I hope we will see more of each other in the New Year, and compare travel notes!! Cheers!!
@catwhiskers Safety and security were never an issue on this trip. In fact, we left camera gear, glasses etc. in one of the holy sites and when we went back the next day, all were exactly where we had left them!
Wonderful! A great image resulting from expertly executed technique and to cap it all, an interesting commentary. It has it all! Thank you for sharing.
Awe-inspiring and spectacular, Elizabeth -- please pass along our compliments to Mark! So glad we had time together in December, but now I'm ready for some astrophotography lessons next time! What do you think, @Taffy and @thirdjoe ?
December 27th, 2015
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