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Here are my two best from mid-May. The first two photos are taken on a 10 MP Canon that's probably 10+ years old. 8 sec. ISO 400 for the first image, which is noticeably brighter than it was in-person. 8 sec. ISO 80 for the second image, which is pretty close to the brightness I remember in-person. And yes, that is not a photo artifact, looking west at one point there was a sharp line where the aurora "ended", as if it was a ray of light. Pretty wild!

The next (pre-aurora night landscape) was taken on my phone.

All images are obviously heavily processed for noise, and while I could have done better if I had thought about taking multiple shorter exposures, it also makes me want to get a camera with better low light performance.

It was chilly, near zero, and the fog was so thick that you could barely see halfway down the block; a city obliterated by cloudy stillness. The moon shone through as an ethereal, featureless disc, its silver light more penetrating than the diffuse glow of the buildings.

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Turtle Nesting Area
That felt important to capture at the time; it's kind of neat to see.

I hope this image feels peaceful~

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@noviri and I went for a walk today, it was nice!

This is my best shot at how this path actually looked, though I feel it was a bit more...atmospheric in person. Perhaps there were dust motes hanging in the sunbeams, perhaps I have a vivid imagination. Either way, I'm sort of enjoying shooting RAW and editing.

Perhaps I'll expand this to a thread if some of the other pictures turn out well.

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