Triangle (a Marine Reserve Marker), near Princess Bay - Wellington NZ

#photoghraphy #seaside

Zooming back a bit - a very overgrown neighbours garden.

The frost remains in the shady parts. Where the sunlight touches, it's already gone..

#landscape #frostymornings #frost #gardenstodon #photoghraphy

For #ThrowbackThursday, a detail of Wall* Arch, Utah, 1998.

Kodak Gold 200, the only film I shot because that's what my pappy, grandpappy,…, and great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpappy all used. In this case it did an incredible job rendering all of the shadows, shapes, and textures under the arch.

(*Edit: Thanks to @sunumbral for correcting my blunder.)

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Got ahold of a Lumix G and decided to shoot some nature and caught a snap of a water noodle!
#lumixphotography #LumixG #Lumix #panasonic #panasoniclumixG #digitalphotography #photographer #photoghraphy #ducks #Snakes #squirrels
Central Texas area! #photoghraphy #CentralTexas
A pair of interacting galaxies

NGC 3169 and NGC 3166 make up a pair of interacting galaxies located roughly 70 million light years from earth. The difference in appearance of these two galaxies is striking, while NGC 3169 (galaxy on the left) is an unbarred spiral galaxy, NGC 3166 (the galaxy on the right) has no visible spiral arms.

NGC 3169 is a spiral galaxy with tightly-wound arms and interesting looking features. One of the spiral arms appears to be asymmetrical due to the interaction with NGC 3166. Additionally, it features a rather big halo in a wide area around the galaxy core, estimated to contain mass in the order of magnitude of 10⁸ solar masses. At the end of the tidal stream contained in the wider halo around the galaxy, a dwarf galaxy was formed by the star systems part of this halo.

Capturing this very faint halo around the galaxy was the main goal of this photo. While I succeeded somewhat, it could definitely have gone better if I had been able to get more Luminance data.


NGC 3166 is classified as a lenticular galaxy (something between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy), this galaxy has no prominent spiral arms. However, it has a low surface brightness bar structure at the core of the galaxy, which can be seen in my photo. The stars in the disk around its nucleus have a rather low metallicity (higher ratio of hydrogen in their make-up) meaning they are probably older than 8 billion years and therefore belong to some an older generation of stars than our own sun.

Total exposure time: over 23h in LRGB using a 8" RC telescope and the QHY163m camera

#astrophotography #space #astronomy #astrodon #photoghraphy #photog #longexposure #nightsky #science

For French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, looking to the upper floors of residential buildings and commercial towers in Hong Kong has revealed an astonishing ecosystem.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/romain-jacquet-lagreze-echoing-above/

#architecture #photoghraphy #plants #hongkong

Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze Documents Life at the Top of Hong Kong's Soaring Architecture

Urban sprawl takes a different course in Hong Kong, where the city grows vertically. Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze documents life above the street.

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