Friday 2 January 2015

Strange and eerie events from above ...

As a general rule I spend most of my time looking straight ahead … or maybe down if I don't want to trip over something … but every now and then something motivates me to look up.  It could be a beautiful sunrise… though that's pretty rare because I'm definitely not known as an early riser.  It could be a sunset … which is much more likely given that it occurs at a much more sociable hour.  A dramatic lightning storm is sure to get me looking skyward … as is a beautiful starry night sky.  Sometimes you can get lucky and have both at once.

Last night … as if celebrating the first evening of the year … Mother Nature was putting on a particularly spectacular light show.  Of course I couldn't resist the temptation of trying to capture a shot.  It's really not that easy … it takes time … and luck … loads and loads of luck.  Unless of course there is actually a skill to it … but I haven't discovered the skill … I just take masses of pictures and hope for the best.

Usually I end up with absolutely nothing worthwhile … and last night these were the best of a bad batch.







But then sometimes with all this looking up and clicking madly you manage to catch more than you bargained for  … freaky!


9 comments:

  1. Wow...you did capture something eerie.....now what was it???

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  2. What a gorgeous sky. Is that flashing an electrical storm? The pre-monsoon ones in Goa look just like that. xxx

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  3. Our sky looked like this tonight. Lots of storms this year! Canberra has been humid!! Love the satellite. Unusual to have stars and storm.

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  4. Aliens!! πŸš€πŸ‘ΎπŸ˜§

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  5. Fantastic! What an amazing sky. xxx

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  6. amaaaaaaazing! these are beautiful -and I would say its more than luck-it is some serious mad talent.
    (and maybe that was a shooting star headed back up into the sky?)

    xoxo

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  7. Awesome!!! I think you possess more skill than you know Jo. There are so many more things I could do with my camera but I still just point and press. Lessons, maybe that is what I could do for 2015.

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  8. Gorgeous sky and great photos! Did that storm hit you or did the UFO land in your garden? I too use the take masses of photos and hope for the best technique. That is the joy of digital cameras to be sure! I find night skies quite tricky and can't get the colour right.
    xoxo

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  9. Woah! these are cool! you are skilled, I can't even take a picture of the moon but the stormy skies and that eerie shape were pretty incredible, I got Dave's opinion on the last one only because I opt for eerie and he is a practical sort, he reckons it might be the international space station anyhoo, brilliant pics! and Happy New Year Jo! x x x

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