Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Pillars of Creation in clear blue sky

The Pillars of Creation are a series of massive, dark columns of interstellar gas and dust located in the Eagle Nebula, approximately 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth. These pillars are a region where new stars are forming. The pillars are made visible by the ultraviolet light from nearby young stars, which causes the gas and dust to glow and also erodes the pillars. 


Okay, it's not the Pillars of Creation, but when I looked in the sky and saw this cloudscape, it reminded me instantly of the Pillars of Creation. I mean look at it closely!


Also the cloudscape has been wonderful and I have been setting my camera gear and shoot some timelapses. Now I only need to post process them with LRTimelapse and Lightroom Classic.

Here is few of the newest videos:



Thursday, July 3, 2025

Long summer nights

The weather hasn't been good for being outside, except for a few sunny days this summer. Few days ago I set up my camera to catch a cloudscape pass by and while I am post processing 4000+ photos into a single video, I decided to post the newest video that I posted on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Cloudscapesphotography

Actually I just did rename it. I couldn't believe I didn't do that in the first place. Anyhow, here is the newest timelapse video:


There hasn't been really good weather for timelapse, or I have been too busy doing something else. But I managed to shoot this about a month ago. As the days are getting longer and longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the sun is settling in late at night, this was shot late in June evening around the time the sun is just about to settle in and night begins, which is quite bright...

I meant to shoot a timelapse on the summer solstice but the weather wasn't great, it wasn't raining as is usual traditional Finnish Midsummer festival weather. :D