Month: October 2020

Star Trails

by russellclarkenz, posted in Cool, Life

Another cool feature of my Nikon P1000 – it can take long exposure timelapses and stitch them together.

In this example I woke up early (or was woken up early by a certain ginger Princess) so got up to make coffee at about 5am and decided to stick the camera outside for a while.

The process takes 25-second exposures for a total of 150 minutes and then automatically stitches them, so you get the stars showing their gradual movement (well, it’s Earth’s movement, but you know what I mean) through the sky.

If I had the patience, and if the sun wasn’t about to come up, I would have let it go for longer. But I think this pic is still quite nice.

Timelapse

by russellclarkenz, posted in Cool

I’ve had my Nikon P1000 for nearly a year and have only just started to read the manual. It has some quite interesting features, like being able to create time lapse videos. This one was taken over 25 minutes, facing South-ish.

Near And Far

by russellclarkenz, posted in Felines, Life

Lord Viking was busy doing his own thing on the far side of the paddock. Meanwhile Princess Wandacakes was being her best relaxo-self in our bedroom.

It’s interesting (to us at least) how different their personalities are. Viking spends most of his time outdoors, patrolling the borders to keep up safe. Meanwhile Wanda spends most of her time inside, sitting with us.

As the seasons change we find them both spending more time outdoors though. Soon they will disappear from our laps in the evening, preferring to spend the warm nights sniffing, lurking and pouncing.

I do enjoy Summers, but I miss their company more.