--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Glad to hear it. Yes, I have some very interesting pictures of > > > > clouds too, particularly as the sun rises and sets. I'll try > > > > your 'technique' with some of my cloud pictures and see what I > > see. > > > > Thanks! I am looking forward to using my new camera for some shots > > > > of the moon. > > > > > > Just make sure you NEVER take karmically dangerous pictures of PURE > > > EVIL! like this: > > > > > > http://alex.natel.net/misc/eclipse.jpg > > > > > Was that the recent lunar eclipse of last weekend? > > Yep. I was reminding myself all day to look at the eclipse, and > naturally, when evening came around, I forgot all about it. That is, > until I walked into the kitchen and saw it out the window. I grabbed > the camera and took that shot. The camera is a Canon S3IS, and with a > tripod and a more skillful user, it could have surely taken a better > picture than that. > > > Cool- I took a stop motion video of one a few years back- I'll > > have to find it. > > I'd love to see it!
One of my next-door neighbors has a pretty good small telescope. The previous eclipse of the moon, he had set it up on the common second-floor balcony of the building and hooked it up to his laptop. The telescope also had a camera in it (or he'd attached one to it). I had gone out to look at the eclipse and strolled over to see what he was up to. Anyway, he would take pictures of the eclipse, and they would immediately show up on his laptop. They were gorgeous. What amused me was that both of us were utterly fascinated by the photos, when the real thing was right in front of us.
