A well-known scene: long-exposure light trails, red from the brake lights and white from oncoming headlights, of traffic travelling over Friarton Bridge, taken from the bridge over the M90 at Rhynd on the outskirts of Perth.
Comprising the stone ruins of at least 22 rectangular buildings and a corn-drying kiln with associated stone-walled enclosures and fields, Craignavar was deserted in around 1820. It's unknown whether it was part of the forced Highland Clearances or just a voluntary departure due to economic reasons.
@kristiedegaris Yup :) That was very much my goal, to maximize what structure could be seen in a wall-sized print. Very high-resolution source data, contrasty lighting. Glad it works :)
I also like the edginess of "is it really even a photo?" and all that kind of philosophical shenanigins.
@xylophilist In another lifetime I would love to be able to do this stuff. Will be on the lookout for those other structures next time I'm up there. We're up there all the time tbh, can't keep away. Some lovely pebbles along the river too, if you're into that kind of thing.
Well that was a messy attempt to dist-upgrade Ubuntu from focal to noble. Many packages held back thanks to breakages in snapd and suchlike gratuitous unnecessary shite, so it refused to install consistent versions of just about anything starting with ImageMagick and working up. Networking/systemd/dhcpcd fargled due to lxc/apparmor too.
So after an evenings's hassle, my work VM is now running debian/testing and my build environment for work works too.
New Year's Eve 2023-24 had some impressively thick mist in parts, so I strolled down through local woods and found one of my favourite contorted characterful trees.
Some people would take a photo. I shot 156 * 48MP = 7.3Gpx of data, computed a 3d model in WebODM and rendered it with moody lighting in Blender, as one does.
(Final toning & vignette in LuminarAI, just for completeness.)
@simon_brooke Well it's the first result I've had from the process and only time I've ever got anything out of Blender, but I am intending majoring in this reconstruction approach this year. We'll see how good it gets.
Highland Boundary Fault. Anti-crepuscular rays in the distance. Entire sky flamed orange pink and red from west to east horizon.
How do I embrace this whole universe?
It's all so beautiful
Like a landscape painting in the sky
...
Ooh, it's bliss
Two variations on the cliché location at Rattray Head lighthouse - one with gorgeous golden low sunlight, another with no light but a classic composition featuring washed-up fishing net litter. Heck. Let's call it what it is: environmental pollution.
A bit of random browsing around the night sky stumbled across Sharpless Sh2-140 in Cepheus. 10.5hr data shot with an 80ED and IDAS NBZ filter, processed and Ha & OIII channels extracted in APP, tweaked and combined in PixInsight and Affinity.
One of the nearest open clusters to Earth, containing approximately 1,000 stars, M44 is visible as a small nebulous object under dark skies. It has been known since ancient times and was studied by Galileo.