Saturday, August 14, 2010

More pics

A couple more pics from my latest hike.

Moon and Venus just after sunset. It turns out Mars and Saturn were also very close to Venus this night, and if it had been darker, I could have gotten all three planets and the Moon in a single shot. I didn't know this until playing with Starry Night Pro a couple of nights later, but by this time the moon had moved quite far from the planet grouping. If I had known I would have hung around to get a shot of it, since it is a very rare opportunity. I didn't have a tripod so I shot this in shutter priority mode at 1/60 s, ISO 320 and F 2.6


One of several tarantulas I found wandering the trail today.