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Night Photography by Loki

June 26th, 2009 7:42 PM / Location: -90.,-122.4525

INSTRUCTIONS: Explore your neighborhood in deepest, darkest night.

Share photographs and other impressions of your exploration.

Last week was the solstice. I haven't seen the sun in three months. I haven't seen the moon in a week and a half.

With this task in mind, I traveled to several places that I haven't visited since sunset, and took 170 photos over the course of two days.

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A nicely feathered aurora.
Camping under the stars.
Accidental escape from the camera.
Below stairs.
D A D A 2
The well.
Home.
And then we saw the Eiffel Tower.
Same building, same evening, very slightly different photo.
I really like this one.
Self portrait, with goofy hanging gauntlets.
Telescopes.
Another really simple one that pleases me.
Yet another, much like the other.
Cheesy? Perhaps.
Even cheesier in dramatic black and white.
Desperately casting about for a foreground.
An afternoon light show.
It's full of stars.

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Breathtaking
posted by susy derkins on June 26th, 2009 9:36 PM

So much in each one!
damn I don´t know the right adjectives, you giving the awfully beautiful land that is almost not Earth anymore, and for free, is your fingers and ears who take the frostbite, wow

I have to ask
posted by teucer on June 26th, 2009 11:44 PM

Are the auroras there still called "aurora borealis" even though you're at the south pole, or are they considered "aurora australis" or something?

If you have to.
posted by Loki on June 27th, 2009 12:10 AM

You got it - australis is the term. (Though, given that the mechanism is obviously the same, giving them different names seems rather silly.)

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posted by Spidere on June 27th, 2009 12:58 AM

These are beautiful. Stunningly so.

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posted by Dax Tran-Caffee on June 27th, 2009 12:03 PM

Ooooohhh. I like pictures of magical things that I have never and will never see!

I can't believe your camera worked at all at 80-below. Does anyone down there shoot in film?

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posted by Loki on July 1st, 2009 6:31 PM

Haven't seen it, and there's no darkroom gear. (Though there's some interest in a darkroom for medical X-ray film in coming years, so that may change.)

But, I'm sure some of the Artists and Writers Program visitors during the summer have done so.

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posted by MonkeyBoy Dan on June 27th, 2009 5:08 PM

When you live in a city, it's easy to forget you live in a galaxy.

Thanks for reminding me! :-D


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posted by Blue on July 9th, 2009 1:15 PM

When you live in a city, it's easy to forget you live in a galaxy.
I Second that!

So many stars!
posted by ananas on June 28th, 2009 1:21 AM

Thanks for showing what the world looks like from where you are.

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posted by rongo rongo on June 28th, 2009 12:18 PM

Night doesn't get much deeper or darker than that.

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posted by Ben Yamiin on June 28th, 2009 5:39 PM

man, that is gorgeous.

Well chosen
posted by Palindromedary on September 13th, 2009 3:40 PM

Exactly. The subject was well chosen.