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Darkness on The Ferry Building
Image by Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits
The Ferry Building in San Francisco is a historic landmark that once served as a transportation hub but has now morphed into a marketplace full of cafes and restaurants. It sits along the Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street and you will find many of the historic trolley cars making stops in the front. One evening I took the short stroll from my hotel over to this place, in hopes of getting a shot or two. I was happy to find it deserted inside, so of course I got a few shots there, but I was more happy when I wandered outside and located an adjacent pier that offered this wonderful view of the structure. Once I saw those neon lights on top that spell out "Port of San Francisco" I knew I was in photography heaven. I rather like nighttime photography, though I don't often have time to pursue it, so I was pretty fired up to get some architecture, skyline, water, HDR, darkness and all those twinkly lights and reflections in one fell swoop.
This is a 5 exposure HDR shot at f/7.1, with exposures from -2 to +2. The longest exposure went 30 seconds, which feels like an eternity when you are excited about seeing what you came up with. I merged them in Photomatix, then made some adjustments in PSE and Aperture.
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Coronet Cluster: A Neighbor of Star Formation (A region of star formation about 420 light years from Earth.)
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: The Corona Australis region is one of the nearest and most active regions of ongoing star formation in our Galaxy. At only 420 light years away, the Coronet is 3.5 times closer than the Orion Nebula Cluster. The Coronet contains a loose cluster of a few dozen known young stars with a wide range of masses at various stages of evolution. The central area of the star-forming region contains the densest clustering of very young stars, embedded in dust and gas. This composite image shows the Coronet in X-rays (Chandra, purple) and infrared emission (Spitzer, orange, green, and cyan). By studying the variability in different energies, scientists hope to better understand the evolution of very young stars.
Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray
Date: c. 2000
Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/coronet/
Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Collection: X-rays Collection - X-rays are electromagnetic radiations beyond ultra-violet which form a shadow image of the internal structure of the object when passed through a solid object and allowed to act upon a sensitive emulsion.
Gift line: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/J.Forbrich et al.;
Infrared: NASA/SSC/CfA/IRAC GTO Team
Accession number: Coronet
Stars over the Bay Bridge
Image by Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits
I was happy to find my hotel in San Francisco was right in the Financial District, putting it a short walk to both The Ferry Building and the Bay Bridge. One evening while on a photo stroll (I did a lot of those that week!) I was over at The Ferry Building, taking lots of shots (from an adjacent pier) of that beautiful building all lit up at night. I happened to turn my attention just off to my left and I saw the lights just a sparklin' over at the Bay Bridge. I am a big fan of bridges and love taking pictures of them, plus I just like the idea of connecting different places. I find a bridge like this, all lit up, to be irresistible. The Golden Gate Bridge gets all the press and attention, and it is a real beauty, but I have to say that in my humble opinion the Bay Bridge can hold its own. This is a single 30 second exposure at f/5.6.
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