Night Runner
To catch Milky Way on coast, you need, moonless, fogless, and cloudless conditions. You need to walk over slippery bluffs and avoid falling over, and get hit by waves when too close. You have to be by yourself out in dark unless you go on weekend and it is mad house. You have to let your setup get hit by waves, while you are posing and run over rocks and waves to get still for the shot. You need to avoid being ticketed. You need to forget about sleep. You need to deal with traffic jams due to road work and beach goers going home.
This year the conditions have co-operated more than others, so far. Below are my efforts.
1) Galactic Man
2) Interstellar Tower
3) Interstellar Portal
4) Galactic Bonfire
5) Passage to Stars
6) Signal to Other World
7) The Search
8) Shark Fin Milk
9) Search light
10) Ancient Launchpad
11) Galactic Touch
12) Boot Arch
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Terrific set, Taz.
Wow, just Wow. I think #10 is my favorite - the lighting on the pier structures from a setting sun? Love them all.
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Fantastic set. I especially love number 2.
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Richard, Jo, Steve, thanks for making my morning! Can never tell you what it means! Cheers!
Those are really sweet, man. Didn't take you long at all to master those techniques! The only one that didn't grab me is the bon-fire one. The rest are truly bow-worthy (I wish we still had that gif). Cheers!
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Damn, buddy, this is some kind of wickedly good stuff. You start out with a virtual horror story of production issues and you finish off with an array of other-worldly visual stunners. I tell you....you work hard at your craft and you deserve every bit of the recognition and praise that you receive.
Tom you rock man! Thanks for always giving positive encouragement and have a wonderful day! Cheers!
Taz, Great set, very inspiring! I have a couple of shots in mind that I have been wanting to try, out on the Washington coast. These shots just may push me to get out there and try, if I can make the time.
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Unbelievable. You've certainly got Milky Way shots down. It took me over a day to respond because the last couple times I looked at these photos my brain short-circuited and could only come up with "kwo uisncp pamkadxij e taqpmmbl" as a response, which makes no sense of course. Now that I've had time to settle in with these I am still beyond awed.
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Taz, these are terrific! You continually impress and inspire many of us with every set. My favorites are those with the human element. Bravo!
Beautiful work! Obviously you can cope with the challenges.
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Phil, David, JBR, Don, thanks for kind comments! It is fuel I cherish! If you ever come this way, you know who to ping! Cheers!
Outstanding!
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WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW 3 & 10 are my favorites!!! This time you also told a great story, Taz - I really admire a) your photo artistry and b) the amount of work you go through to get these
Sure am! I just looked at these again and now I want to go out and do some night shooting!
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Thanks Mike!
Thanks so much Sara!
Cheers Both!
Awesome! Can't wait to see your shots! The MW window is closed right now and I travel next month, but it is will open in Sept and Oct and that is prime time still to catch it. Lets talk later.....
Thanks Mare!!
Haven't been visited in a while..these are super cool! Very nice techinically/artisticly and FUN to boot!
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Great images - especially #2 !
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Superb shots. Bravo ! The light and sharpnes are top !!!
Thanks kindly Daniel, Max, Jerry and Tasmanian!!
In complete awe... Speechless... envy is the only word that comes to mind !
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Amazing set, Taz. Number 3 is off the charts amazing.
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Yay! Cristobal, Bryan, thanks truly!
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I like 3, 10, 11, and 12 !!
What a great series - gives me some ideas too!
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Thanks so much Jim!