If I Never Take Another Photo in My Life ..

[DemoTex]

About sixty seconds from clouds obscuring the comet Neowise on Sunday night. I was just setting the camera up for what I thought would be an hour of shooting around the lookout environs on the tiptop of Pinyon Peak (9945' elevation). The lookout interior was illuminated with a single 6" ChemLight lightstick. Camera was a Sony A7-R4 with a trusty Canon 24-105 adapted lens. About two hours later I was jolted by a 3.0 quake about 7 miles away.

Pinyon Peak Fire Lookout
Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness
Salmon-Challis National Forest
Idaho

[Glorfindel]

1. Breathtaking! Thanks for sharing, DemoTex

It has been WAY too cloudy here to see the comet (or much of anything in the sky).

[cry baby]

2. Very cool! nt

[42bambi]

3. Nice timing. Beautiful!

[handmade34]

4. perfect!!

[think4yourself]

5. Yes!

But don’t you ever stop taking photos!

[spanone]

6. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[MLAA]

7. Wow, just wow! Excellent, so glad you shared this pic.

[applegrove]

8. Stunning. I've not seen a live comet. This feels pretty clise.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. Gorgeous photo!

I take it you are doing the firewatch thing again this summer?

[DemoTex]

21. Yes

Idaho

[CousinIT]

10. Whoa. Thanks for getting that shot and sharing it!

I'd never have seen that comet otherwise.

[Hekate]

11. That is awe-inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing with us.

[tblue37]

12. K&R for visibility. nt

[hlthe2b]

13. Very nice!

[elleng]

14. Great!

[librechik]

15. great catch! n/t

[SaveOurDemocracy]

16. Spectacular! Thanks DT, but pleasssse keep taking photos and sharing 😎

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Glorious.

Thanks for sharing.

[StarryNite]

18. Now that's social distancing!

Amazing shot! I don't think I could capture something like that with my Canon point and shoot.

[benld74]

19. Great job, nice pic 👍

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Great shot! But getting jolted by an earthquake while up in a metal tower at the peak of

a mountain must have been very scary!

[AllaN01Bear]

22. lovely snap of the comet. details on the earthquake below

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000are1/executive

[AnotherMother4Peace]

23. I. am. JEALOUS! Wow! Thank you for sharing.

We've been waking up all hours of the night to see the comet, to no avail. I have several framed photos of comets on my wall. I would love to have a framed copy of this photo. PS my husband said "wow".

[panader0]

24. Gorgeous! Thanks.

It has been cloudy for days and I have not been able to see it. I just went out after I saw
your post and it's still clouded.

[Cracklin Charlie]

25. Amazing!

And you have so many amazing photos from which to choose.

[DFW]

26. We saw it here in Cape Cod, too

And a wilderness named after Frank Church? Bravo! He was a wonderful man.
When I was a kid, he used to come out to our house in Virginia and chat with my Dad for the afternoon. I used to hang with his son, Forrest, but he was already too old to have much in common with me. He died very young, I heard.

[GregD]

27. Regrettably, this shot was taken from northern California.

It's fire season again in Siskiyou County, just at the Oregon Border.

If you go to this page, and look at the header image, you see the comet flying above the Badger Fire: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SiskiyouAlerts/


This one is from over Mount Shasta.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

33. Gorgeous. I love the reflection.

[marble falls]

48. Beautiful painting! Nobody would believe it was real. Great photograph!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

28. It's comprised of Ice, right?

I can actually see that it's ice.

[democrank]

29. Top-Notch Photo

Thank you so much.

[MontanaMama]

30. Just gorgeous.

Thank you DT!

[greblach]

31. In the Nick of time

Wow!

[kentuck]

32. Wow!

Unbelievable! Amazing!

[Joinfortmill]

34. 👍

[alfredo]

35. Lovely, and you can see the Ion tail.

[xxqqqzme]

36. What a picture!

Just beautiful. Thank you

[TNNurse]

37. Oh, I think this should encourage you to take more photos.

Just beautiful.

[HAB911]

38. BEAUTIFUL!

[Ani Yun Wiya]

39. Nice shot

Well Done...

[tavernier]

40. Dr. Brian May of Queen posted these...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrthu_hmC4/?igshid=1ctkrme6y32rs

[Codeine]

41. Absolutely gorgeous. nt

[niyad]

42. Beautiful.

[DarleenMB]

43. If you cropped the picture

so that only the comet and clouds showed, then I bet you could sell a lot of prints. I'd love to have that printed on glass. It is breathtaking! Excellent job!

[2naSalit]

44. Spectacular!

Thank you for sharing!

[calimary]

45. Beautiful.

You prove that there is still MUCH beauty and wonder to be beheld in (and around) this world.

[dalton99a]

46. Kick

[marble falls]

47. And even better when the whole story is told with it. Cosmic stuff is rare stuff.

[pandr32]

49. Wow!

[CaptainTruth]

50. Beautiful!!!

[Silver1]

51. Just a remarkable photograph.

Wow.

[ProfessorGAC]

52. Fantastic Shot, TeX!

Thanks for posting.

[peacebuzzard]

53. exceptional indeed

a picture of a lifetime!
what a shot. congratulations!

[tandem5]

54. It's a great shot!

There's a lot of color information hidden in the dark regions that you might want to explore. I like the greens and reds as a contrast to the night sky and the rock outcropping in the corner. There are also a number of lens flares across the upper center band that are also obscured, but interesting. I'm not saying you have to change anything, but there are lot of textures and colors just under the surface. I also the like the swept angle of the awning supports being parallel with the tail.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

55. Great pic!

I have a pic of Halley's Comet somewhere around here. I put my Dad's camera on a tripod and tried various exposure times, one of which came out especially good. It was framed by two trees.

[warmfeet]

56. That is gorgeous.