Bits of Life Archives - Page 4 of 6

X marks the spot.

Glad that jet did not hit the ISS tonight. 🙂

August 2, 2015

ISS Pass From Our Front Yard

Beautiful evening here in Midlothian. Caught a nice ISS pass from the front yard.

This is a series of 108 images shot over about 3 minutes. The composite was made with StarStaX.

April 21, 2015

Venus and the Pleiades

Venus and the Pleiades from our backyard at about 8:30 P.M. on April 11, 2015.

Venus has a magnitude -4.1, it’s rivaled in brightness only by the Moon and Sun. In this photo, we see the sky’s brightest planet and one of the most beautiful star clusters side by side at dusk.

April 12, 2015

Iguana on Islamorada

Susan and I saw a large group of Iguanas on Islamorada when visiting last month. This one was getting some sun up in a tree.

March 12, 2015

Everglades Bird

This a Panasonic LX100 4K frame grab from the video I shot in the Everglades.

February 24, 2015

2015 Florida Trip to Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park

I rented a Panasonic LX100 from LensRentals.com to test out on a recent trip to the Miami area and southern Florida.

Here are a few clips from Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. All the clips were hand held and shot at 4K.

Edited to a 1080p timeline in Final Cut Pro X. The music track is “Upbeat Ukulele” from AudioJungle.

February 24, 2015

African Violet

Put an old Canon FD lens on a Panasonic GH4 for this shot. Not too sharp but ok for a 30+ year old piece of glass. The African violet belonged to my mom.

January 22, 2015

Comet Lovejoy

Got a shot of the green Comet Lovejoy here in Midlothian Virginia tonight. That’s Pleiades in the top of the photo.

January 16, 2015

Sunrise Over Swift Creek Reservoir

An iPhone 6 photo taken on my commute to work yesterday.

January 10, 2015

First Day Photos – 2015

Backyard moss. Shot with iPhone 6.

January 2, 2015

ISS Pass Over Our House

Twelve 8-second exposures merged together. There was a 1-second gap between photos.

December 26, 2014

Mountain Biking Pocahontas State Park

I ran across this GoPro footage from a fall ride in 2012.

Single Track Mountain Biking in Pocahontas State Park – GoPro HD HERO Original – Chest Mount – 720p 60fps

November 14, 2014

Susan in a Garden on the Blue Ridge Parkway

August 23, 2014

Fenced Field on the Blue Ridge Parkway

August 23, 2014

Ravens Roost on the Blue Ridge Parkway

August 8, 2014

Mount Rainier Summit

The summit of Mount Rainier

July 22, 1986

Woody Carr (left) Mike Woolley (right)

June 23, 2014

International Space Station from Midlothian

I finally captured an International Space Station pass from our front yard last night.

April 22, 2014

Florida 2014 | Winter Birds

A few scenes of birds we saw on our trip to southern Florida last month. Locations were Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve and Big Cypress National Preserve.

Shot with a 2009 Canon HF S100. Edited with Final Cut Pro X. Music from iStock.

March 22, 2014

Spring 2014 – Small Yellow Daffodils

These small yellow daffodils opened this morning. Spring has officially arrived in my front yard!

March 22, 2014

Night Commute Time-Lapse

My 20-minute commute home in about 25-seconds.

Shot with a GoPro Hero3 Black Edition using the 4K/15fps ProTune setting. Converted in GoPro Studio to 29.97fps with speedup of 30X with motion blur turned on. Exported using the ProTune preset. Edited on a 1080p timeline in Final Cut Pro X. Music from an Adobe Soundbooth CS5 score.

December 5, 2013