Something has to be wrong in removing the phone lines. I see stars disappear when I do it. That means I am zapping entire galaxies. Does it mean I am playing God or learning photoshop? The exercise is almost useless because our eyes move to the speeding car first and we almost forget what a nice photo of a garbage can I have taken. On the other hand it was a beautiful beginning to the night!
20241203 sunset and phone lines.
About an hour ago I stepped out on the porch and took a shot at the moon and far away planet. It is probably Venus. I’m proud I can still hand hold a long exposure in the cold. I dropped both my elbows to my chest and leaned on the wall and hit the shutter quickly but tried not to move anything. I did this quickly knowing the sunset would change quickly. I ran downstairs unlocked my camera from a box, ran to the porch and took the shot. There are lots of things and maybes going on. Maybe I could have been fast enough to snag the tripod and extended the exposure a bit more to bring out more stars. I took six shots to get it still. I forgot to take my cross star filter off but still got an easy burst. However, to the eye there weren’t more stars showing. The original two cuts show power lines. In the final cut I took out the power lines which causes struggle. The struggle is maybe I should leave the lines in. By taking them out I could be masking out entire galaxies or another universe. Closer to earth on the photo side of the tree, maybe there is a squirrel or bird that I rendered in the way. Then I had to stop the nagging voices in my head and tried to cut them short by reminding myself to always take and render the best possible original photo I possibly could with what I have at the time. But that is just the short end of the conversation with me and the often annoying voice in my head! I’m going to have to summon up David Byrne because I know he can relate!