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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Crane and Building With Green Windows, Night

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Crane and Building With Green Windows, Night
Crane and Building With Green Windows, Night. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. March 22, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Night color photograph of an old shipyard crane and a building with green windows at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. Photographed during a full moon outing with The Nocturnes SF Bay Area night photography group.

Mare Island at night seems to provide an almost endless range of subjects and lighting. I’ve been there many times and hope to return frequently

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Photographs: Night, Photographs: Urban/Street

Shop Buildings at Night

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Mare Island Shops at Night
Mare Island Shops at Night. Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. March 22, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

At least once a year I join The Nocturnes (the San Francisco Bay Area night photographers’ group led by Tim Baskerville) to photograph the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. This amazing historical site near Vallejo, California was the first US Navy shipyard on the west coast and dates to the mid-1800s. It was active until the late 1990s. It is a night photographer’s paradise with wonderful old buildings ranging form officers’ homes to dry docks to huge cranes to wonderful old brick factory buildings

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Commentary, Photographs: Night, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Site News

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Moonlit Cove, Thousand Island Lake

Moonlit Cove, Thousand Island Lake. Ansel Adams Wilderness, California. July 27, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I am contemplating a change in the way that photographs are displayed on the home page and in the rss news feed. Instead of displaying the relatively large versions I have been posting here, I will switch to somewhat smaller versions that will expand when you click on them. I think this will have several benefits: those who subscribe to the rss feed will find that my posts take up less space in their feed viewers, there will be less scrolling to do on my home page, and those who want to see full size images will still be able to do so. One small downside will be that rss feed readers will have to click the title link of each post and come to the home page to see the complete display.

I’ve placed an alternate version of today’s image into this post, displayed in the new format.

As always, I welcome your feedback about this or anything else on my web site.

Thanks,

Dan

Photographs: Night, Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Moonlit Cove, Thousand Island Lake

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Moonlit Cove, Thousand Island Lake

Moonlit Cove, Thousand Island Lake. Ansel Adams Wilderness, California. July 27, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I spent a few hours on this cold, clear July evening photographing the light of the full moon, star trails, and reflections on the surface of Thousand Island Lake.

When using a digital camera to make such long exposures one must adopt a very patient attitude. First, find the spot for your photograph and set everything up in the dark. Then make an exposure of perhaps 15 minutes. Because DSLRs are subject to noise on these long exposures, you then wait another 15 minutes while the camera completes a “dark frame” exposure to determine how to compensate for the noise in the original exposure. Yes, it takes 30 minutes (and lots of battery power!) to make a 15 minute exposure.

You could become impatient. Or you could, as I do, sit back and enjoy the peace and quite of a beautiful moonlit Sierra night.

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