S. Z. Attwell ☕️💻Another #introduction post for all the new Twitter people (and just new people in general!). A little about me: I’m Sabrina - I’m a #writer (some #scicomm) and #author of #ScienceFiction (and #ClimateFiction and #dystopian) #books - my series Aestus was on the Amazon hard #scifi bestseller list recently. 😊 I also do #archery and #photography and enjoy #hiking - I would love to get into #astrophotography. I am learning #German and really enjoy good convos/coffee/tea. Sry for so many hashtags 😅
Matthew@szattwellauthor Oh I did not know you hope to learn astrophotography? Me too! I even bought a camera with removable lens (so later I could get a telephoto for moon shots etc), but so far the brain fog has been too much to actually learn how to use it properly. One day though insha Allah.
@picard yes! And really? That’s so cool! There’s not enough dark sky here to really do much but I used to live out in really rural Washington and you could see the Milky Way at night if you drove out of town. Very cool about the camera and I hope the brain fog clears up soon inshaAllah. Here are some of my favorite moon pics:
@szattwellauthor I am also from the sticks - the night sky is so much better when you're not in a city. I'm far enough from the centre of London that I do get some stars, but it's not the same.
Your moon pictures are great, you're very talented. The first one especially, it's difficult to capture the moon, well done.
And thank you. Jazak Allahu khair.
@picard that sounds amazing - I’ve always wanted to visit the English countryside, it’s a dream inshaAllah.
Alhamdulillah - thank you! I’ve never been trained, I couldn’t tell you formal stuff about composition and such, I just feel it when I see the view and then I capture it as best I can. It is very hard to capture the moon. I had to use my “real” camera (not cell phone) for it.
Wa iyyak!
@szattwellauthor oh really? Ahh, I hope you can visit one day, and fulfill your dream 😊
I grew up around one of the most beautiful parts of the world. I know everyone says the same but in this case it's true 😂 I'm sort of kidding, but it really is very nice and I miss it.
I think that's probably a sign you have a good eye for photos if you do that. That you used an actual camera explains how it's so clear, I was wondering how you got it, my phone can never manage that 😁
@picard yes! I hope so inshaAllah! Ooh where did you grow up?
Alhamdulillah - I think similarly inshaAllah. I just see something that looks nice and have worked with my cameras long enough to have a sense of how to capture it. Usually works. Some colors and such not so much but that’s ok.
I usually use a phone - here’s a camera shot compared to with a phone:
@szattwellauthor I grew up kind of on the border of the Peak District - so we spent a lot of time there growing up - and Sherwood Forest (maybe you heard of it from Robin Hood - I've visited his famous tree many times 😁 ). Lots of woods and stuff nearby, with the hill walks in the peaks when we wanted a day out.
But, Scotland is pretty awesome too, I will say 😊
@picard ooh the Peak District is basically my dream area. That and the Yorkshire Dales. I read a lot of James Herriot as a kid. 😊
Um, excuse me, you live in Scotland? Ahh that’s amazing mashaAllah - I really want to see it one day. My ancestors came from there and I actually know exactly where their village was. (It’s underwater now 😅.)
@szattwellauthor Oh sorry no I was unclear! I don't live in Scotland - but been there many times, I was giving them credit that it's not just English countryside that is great 😄 Interesting that your ancestors are from there! Highlands? There was a huge amount of emigration to America from the Highlands...
There are so many interesting places in the Peak District - not just hills but old historical places, huge cave systems, it's a wonderful place to visit. I hope you do 😊
@picard ohhh ok! Haha yes Scotland looks amazing mashaAllah. My family actually comes from Ayrshire - they weren’t one of the Highlands clans, they were Brythonic Celts apparently. Snodgrass was the name. They had a small village close to what’s now a golf course in Irvine. The river rerouted so that’s why I said underwater 😅.
It looks amaaazing (Scotland too) and one day yes, inshaAllah 😊
@szattwellauthor that's really interesting heritage! 😊 indeed, one of the old Celtic kingdoms was up around there (Alt Clud - Strathclyde). I imagine it'd be really interesting to visit where your ancestors lived!
@picard yup! I think they lived right there (Strathclyde). Someone wrote a super long history of the family (online) which is how I figured it out. Old British map of the area and all. I hope to one day inshaAllah.
@szattwellauthor fascinating! That sounds like a great thing to discover online. 😊
@picard it was! So much info haha.
@szattwellauthor There's a such a big difference between those two photos. I don't know why phones struggle so much with the mood but it's so much better on the camera shot there. Also - the ghost image from the double glazing is barely visible on the camera shot, only if you know to look, but the phone picks it up more (mine does the same - even 3-4 ghost images sometimes somehow 😄 )
@picard wait you mean like a double moon? Or ?? And yeah they don’t do well with very bright detailed surfaces, I think.
@szattwellauthor Ahh I meant - if you look closely on the phone photo it looks like there's a ghost of the moon just up and to the right? Forgive me if I was looking too closely but I was examining the two photos because I was interested to compare them 😄
@picard Ohh no that’s what I thought you meant, I just couldn’t see anything myself 😂 and no, please, the moon is very worth admiring in detail mashaAllah 😊
@szattwellauthor it is very faint on yours, sometimes on mine it's like there are two moons in the sky 😂
Here is one I took some time ago if you like it 😊
@picard oh yeah I hate that haha.
Ooh that is very beautiful mashaAllah - thanks for sharing! I have something similar:
@szattwellauthor that's lovely 😊 great how it contrasts with the mysterious clouds and the dark ground / water.
@picard alhamdulillah - thanks, it took me multiple tries to capture it!
@szattwellauthor worth the effort!