Follow The Drinking Gourd

 Inspired by the folk song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_the_Drinkin'_Gourd 

Observation

Moon and Earth

Nebula

Clay Earth

Saturn - 2012

Stargazing

Lunar Pinch

2011 July 4th Stars

Seeing in the Dark : Reconstructing Images

Heather took this 15 Second exposure of me at the beach.
Like something out of a movie there was enough data in the blacks of this picture to create this recontruction

Original
(check this out in your favorite image editor to try it yourself)

Same image with some buffs added to the Levels

Purim Moon (Largest for the next 18 years)

This picture was taken with the camera suspended from a rain gutter on the side of my house at about 11:15 PM. The camera is a cannon a700. I used a manual mode on the highest resolution with ISO 80 with a 2 second timer.

Galactic Headlight

Galaxies

Early Morning Moon

Red Moon (Lunar Eclipse)

Giants

Gallery of 49 (Small Bits)

The Shadow of the World

Moonlight - Gradient and Opposites

Looking at the background of Think Geek one evening I noticed something really interesting with the background. First look at the top of the page then scroll to the bottom and you will see a different image based on where you were in the page. Initially I was confounded, then after studying the colors involved, I found the technique. The following is a very quick reproduction of it.

Basic ingredients
1) Two Colors for a Gradient (Black and White in this case)
2) Gradient from One to the other. If you reverse the gradient as seen below you will see the highest amount of contrast.
3) A massive amount of transparency prior to applying the gradient.


The triangular mountainside is black on a transparent background, as seen below in white.

The stars were the exact opposite.
Example of showing a close to full gradient from White to Black

Off-angle gradient for dramatic effect

Voyager