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Wow, beautiful...
Now I am going to have to stay up and watch the sunrise... dam you...
 
That would be a problem. would it?

First impression of the panorama with some quick jpgs not postprocessed yet:

1gp47o.jpg
 
And this morning it was like this,

21kmiqd.jpg
 
The pictures are gorgeous Andre.
 
sourlemon said:
The pictures are gorgeous Andre.

Thanks

Andre said:
... First impression of the panorama with some quick jpgs not postprocessed yet:

1gp47o.jpg

And here is the final version

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22026080/Panorama%20sunrise%20montcru1.JPG

Nine post processed raws. Original size 19400 x 4800 pixels
 
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turbo said:
Wonderful!

Thanks Turbo. Personallu I consider this the best landscape panorama I ever made.

Can't wait to go back there.
 
Andre said:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22026080/Panorama%20sunrise%20montcru1.JPG

Nine post processed raws. Original size 19400 x 4800 pixels


*astounded*

Beautiful pictures Andre, thanks for sharing.
 
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Andre said:
And this morning it was like this,

21kmiqd.jpg

These take me back to a delightful midnight of my youth.

Thank you Andre.
 
Thanks to the PF astrophotography experts who helped me out recently- here's first light (1:1 crop) of the Ring Nebula:

http://imageshack.us/a/img820/2650/dsc003531.jpg

30 second exposure @ ISO 800, 800/5.6 lens. This is a single frame straight off the camera.
 
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This time of year, Andromeda is directly overhead- this is a 20 min total exposure (30s individual images) taken over a couple of evenings (800/5.6, ISO 800):

http://imageshack.us/a/img441/4605/20mintifrgb.jpg

The secondary bright blob is M32, and M110 is faintly visible in the upper left.
 
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So I went hiking today for the first time since I came to the US. It wasn't that tough- it took us about three hours. Despite a small knee injury and the tiring path, I enjoyed it. :)
Here's some pics I took.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1565/hiking3.jpg


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6189/hiking2.jpg


http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/817/hiking1.jpg
 
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Great pix, Gad! You are in a spectacularly scenic place. The mountains in Maine are all worn-down and rounded. Still pretty, but not stunning.
 
Thanks turbo! And yes, I'm in love with this place already, you can always have a good beautiful view of the mountains anywhere you go.
 
Gad said:
So I went hiking today for the first time since I came to the US. It wasn't that tough- it took us about three hours. Despite a small knee injury and the tiring path, I enjoyed it. :)
Here's some pics I took.

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1565/hiking3.jpg


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6189/hiking2.jpg


http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/817/hiking1.jpg

Welcome to the far side. :cool:
 
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Gad said:
So I went hiking today for the first time since I came to the US. It wasn't that tough- it took us about three hours. Despite a small knee injury and the tiring path, I enjoyed it. :)
Here's some pics I took.

Nice! Where is this mystical land of sun and scenic beauty? Not Cleve-town, that's fer sure.
 
Gad said:
So I went hiking today for the first time since I came to the US. It wasn't that tough- it took us about three hours. Despite a small knee injury and the tiring path, I enjoyed it. :)
...

Great, nice pix :approve: Careful with the knees, they hate descending when you get older.
 
Andre said:
Great, nice pix :approve: Careful with the knees, they hate descending when you get older.
Yep! Eventually, I had to give up scaling mountains. Actually, I could climb Katahdin a couple of times a day, but coming back down was too painful to do even once. The last time, my knees were so swollen that I had trouble getting my pants off so I could shower. Not good.
 
Right, I know all about it. Climbing is great. Descending sucks.

But I did the Mount Valier the other year
 
Something has been lurking in my garden. It was getting dark and the glare from the flash off the measuring scale washed out the toe nails.

http://imageshack.us/a/img10/9973/img0053yjp.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img577/8971/img0051mq.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img26/3746/img0057ga.jpg
 
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You left this one out, I did a search on bear tracks and found it.

Bear-Tracks-old_8395.jpg
 
We have bears. They are shy and secretive, and they are more interested in avoiding confrontation than you are. One morning I went out to find a heavy welded-wire suet cage torn apart and bent. That suet feeder was hanging high up under the eaves right in front of my desk (I like to watch birds) so that bear was pretty darned tall. I knew he was living on the back side of my property anyway, since he had front paw-tracks that I couldn't cover with my hands.
 
turbo said:
We have bears. They are shy and secretive, and they are more interested in avoiding confrontation than you are. One morning I went out to find a heavy welded-wire suet cage torn apart and bent. That suet feeder was hanging high up under the eaves right in front of my desk (I like to watch birds) so that bear was pretty darned tall. I knew he was living on the back side of my property anyway, since he had front paw-tracks that I couldn't cover with my hands.
Now I know I'm not coming to Maine. :biggrin:

Just kidding. I'd love to come to Maine.
 
Andre said:
Right, I know all about it. Climbing is great. Descending sucks.

But I did the Mount Valier the other year

turbo said:
Very scenic, Pooh!

I was cleaning out my harddisk and stumbled upon the proof of that.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22026080/IMG_1332.jpg
 
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