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Snow? What’s snow? Is it that white stuff that was floating around everywhere in the L, t W, &t W, because I’d heard of that stuff before, but I thought maybe it was just a special effect they used for the movie. Sometimes I see something like it on the mountains off in the distance, but I was fairly certain it’s just someone putting white sheets on all the trees up there to keep them from freezing (we do that here in the valley for our citrus, too.)

Funny picture–where’s the fawn? The lamp post?

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jinxed? You owe me a Coke…

The confluence of the rivers is a fork, for one. Tree limbs fork. Not to be too literal to the theme, but I’ll bet there’s forks on them thar tables. The wakes from the little boats probably fork. Depending on the sediments in the two bodies of water, there *may* be some forking where they merge. Forks go both ways, you know.

Worse comes to worse, you can always use your hand.

*TWSS*

I mean, as in the ‘peace’ symbol (or LLAP, for that matter).

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Alaska must be like Narnia; I rely on some decent moonlight to get nice nighttime scenery shots (higher f/stops, longer exposures=softer shadows). Up there, the stars themselves are probably fit enough to do the job.

Gods, I want less light pollution down here.

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We have the opposite problem here; 300 clear days a year (or thereabouts); it’s hard to capture something weather related, excepting monsoon related, to add visual interest. The rest of the year? Meah. Not so much. Auroras? Fergitaboutit.

There’s plenty of freeware out there (and websites) that will give you the moon phase–I’d bet you could better your shot within three months, if you look for it (and I hope you do; you certainly have the skill and the equipment!–plus, in your area the viewing allows a lot of [pardon the pun] latitude, time-wise, to get the nice shots, whereas I had to capture the moment within 20 or so minutes, or it was gone.)

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…and CA is a bee-atch with the moon, isn’t it?

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Oh, come on, soosh! Surely you’ve gotten a better thin crescent than that! You’re a astrophotographer’s dream, for crying out loud!! I am constantly green with envy at your shots!!

/Isn’t that the shot you used in one of the more recent contests, btw?

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The wording of this theme description makes me giggle.

Me too. I like it because it is succinct but still wide open.

Thanks. And it’s nice in that it doesn’t prompt a boatload of questions about what the theme is about, for a change.

Oddly enough, though, I’m having a devil of a time getting a third photograph for this. I think I’ve got two good ones [fingers crossed]. I opted out of the ‘freeway divergence’ motif as I’m sure it will be overplayed (even though I had a semi-decent one).

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Craigslist…

I thought that was just for estate sales…and tricks.

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You just need a bigger flash. Like 2 or 3 megatons…..

Anyone know where I can get a Fat Man on the cheap?

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Oh, and taken June 9th, 2010, 3:18am, from Meridian Rd & University area in Mesa, Az. 🙂

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As a matter of fact, I do have several pictures of the ISS. But my favorites are the ones taken through my telescope. Here’s a crop of one:

I need to get back out and try to do better, obviously. My exposure setting (1/400th) was too long to get it clearly, and it doesn’t help that in an 11 inch scope, it’s moving pretty damned fast. A bunch more, but they all look pretty much the same:

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Kind of like your ‘Combo’ theme suggestion. I’m glad you’re in charge of this and not I. So long as you correct the spelling of my name (family pride=book sales), I’ll be good. I love the layout overall. And my mom–my techno-illiterate, non-computer friendly, couldn’t-post-a-picture-if-her-life-depended-upon-it mom, is now asking me how she can get into the farktography gig.

*shudders*

Oh, well; I’ll at least have her vote. And she’s good for at least one copy of 5K.

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ooooohhhhh… pretty. The earthshine shows up nicely.

And that’s really, really hard to do without over exposing the moon. Nice crescent shot. If it’s thin, it’s in (hey, there’s a theme there…)

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{quotes previous 5 or 6 people}

This was one of my favorite contests. The shots were amazing, I’d revisit in a heartbeat (1/2 the pictures I’ve taken in the past couple days would be suitable.) There’s something to be said about ambiguity, previous several contest threads aside. The results speak for themselves. There should be a ‘don’t vote for this but vote for everything else’ button for contests like this.

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Congrat’s the U-Man this week!

/weird; each of the last three weeks I’ve had 47 votes. Seems to be my mean…

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