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This image is a 5 shot panorama. Each image taken horizontally at 30mm and stiched together in Lightroom. The resulting file is over 10,000 pixels long.
This beautiful scene was photographed early one morning in rural central Virginia, just south of Charlottesville.
I found another great looking old house last night. This one near Coats, NC.
This photo consists of 169 30-second exposures. Facing east, the stars are rising from behind the house. The house and land is lit with a combination of moonlight and headlights from passing cars over the 1.5 hour time.
1600 ISO, f4.0, 16mm, 30 seconds x169
I will not give out the exact location of this one as I was approached by the owner while shooting here last night. After briefly explaining what I was doing, he was nice enough to allow me to continue. There are a lot of photographers that wouldn’t hesitate at trespassing to get a photo, but I will just not do that. I was shooting from the road, and was respectful of their property. There was a “No Trespassing” sign up and I don’t want to be responsible for other photographers showing up.
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It’s actually been more than a month since I’ve been behind my camera. I headed out last night to photograph star trails around rural North Carolina. All day long the Weather Chanel app said there would be clear skies all night. I’ve got a couple locations in mind that I want to photograph at night once the skies get cold and clear. This was one of them, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I’ll be back to this location, as well as others like it this winter, to photograph long star trails. Until then, I’ll settle for this moody black and white image.
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I was out riding around on NC back roads near Jordan Lake when I came across this beautiful little church as the sun was setting. Martha’s Chapel – near Apex, NC
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About an hours worth of 30-second photos, merged to show the movement of the stars.
So I awoke to some awesome fog on Friday morning. Once I got the kids up and off to school, I grabbed the camera and headed out. Drove around and shot for an hour or so and then I came up on this scene right outside of Murfreesboro. Took a while to get the beautiful horse to pose just right 🙂
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So I left the house late Saturday night in search of night scene to shoot. I took off on some back roads in rural Bedford County. Came across a few interesting scenes, shot a little here and there, then I was very excited when I came across this. The barn was sitting in perfect moon light. The North Star just off to the left (just out of frame). So I set up here and shot for about an hour and a half to capture the star trails. No artificial light was used in this scene, everything was completely lit by a very bright moon. Hopefully I’ll be headed out that way soon for some other ideas I found along the way 🙂
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A rural farm, just outside of Charlottesville Virginia. This is a 6 shot panorama, each a 7 exposure HDR
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I’ve photographed this barn before, but as soon as I found out that no one lived on this farm (its for sale for a cool $7 mil) I knew I wanted to get back at night time. This is only about 20 minutes worth of star trails, after that my lens began to fog up from the dew. The barn is lit with a hand-fired flash.
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After leaving UVa, I headed north to meet my aunt, MariAnne. MariAnne is a great photographer, I encourage you to visit her blog. She is a master of black and white images and long exposures.
We rode all around some rural back roads looking for photo opportunities:
This is a new addition to a series I’ve started of self portrait reflections. This one was much different than any of my others with the curtain, and bars. I also liked how dirty the windows were.
This one is my favorite from the day.
At the end of the day, I stopped by Herndon Virginia to visit my brother. This is a shot of downtown Herndon at sunset
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