City of tiny lights, originally uploaded by MattB.net.

Better late than never! Now let the snow fly so we can catch up!
I hiked up a hill next to town the other night to catch the lights in the icy mist over town. It was about 5 degrees F which is normal for us this time of year.

I shot this with my K-5 and Rokinon 8mm Fisheye on a tripod for a 10s exposure.

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IMGP1035-Edit, originally uploaded by MattB.net.

This is a composite image made from six different photos taken from the same 100 shot series. I went through and got the shots with visible meteors and layered them in Photoshop so only the meteors were visible against just one of the shot's background. I repeated that process once for the rocks which I light painted with my headlamp in one exposure.
Pentax K-5 and Pentax DA 15mm Ltd.

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IMGP1211-Edit, originally uploaded by MattB.net.

I got out early today to catch the Orionid meteor shower. It was peaking in the wee hours so I dragged myself out to try and get some meteor photos. I got a few decent shots and I liked this one. I also ended up with hundreds of fairly plain photos without any meteors so I stacked those for the trails below. I loved how all the different colors became so visible. Anyway, I'd say that was worth an early morning. I think I'll have a few good photos from it too.

I used the shareware application ImageStacker for this stack of 100 15s exposures.

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IMGP4423-IMGP4523.jpg, originally uploaded by MattB.net.

I camped near home over the weekend for my wife's and my 17th wedding anniversary. It was great fun and I set up my camera for some star trails late Saturday night. This is 100 consecutive 8s exposures stacked using ImageStacker software.
The Pentax K-5 has a very handy interval shooting feature that facilitates this kind of shot very well. I just set it up on the tripod, hit go, and returned later to review the results.

I just missed a big meteor while I was setting up (darn!) but I did catch a couple of small ones near the top of the frame. The red trail on the left is most likely a satellite and the horizontal ones are airplanes. Foreground fill light was provided by the almost-full moon rising to the East.

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Or maybe just a toe? I hope my photo which was used on Outside Magazine's website is just the start of something.

The photo was one I shot last summer getting images for another magazine's web site that I never submitted to them (met my quota already). Then recently I was contacted by Dave Wiens looking for a photo of the 24 Hours in the Sage mountain bike race. I went through my unused images and found this one I had previously overlooked. I like it and I hope the good folks at Outside do too.

Plenty more where that came from! :)

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We stayed at Waunita Hot Spring Ranch for my son's birthday after a great ski day at Monarch. It was so pretty out at night I had to get the tripod out for some night shots.

There's also this cool old truck out back that was being so nicely lit by that moonlight.

Waunita is a really nice spot with a lot of character. We had a great time!

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IMGP9749.jpg, originally uploaded by MattB.net.

The Farmer's Almanac says a ring around the moon foretells unsettled weather. I really hope that means more powder this weekend!

I shot this while doing a little after work XC skiing at Mill Creek.

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IMGP4663.jpg, originally uploaded by MattB.net.

I always like the light better as the sun gets lower in the sky. So as fall takes hold here in the high country I start noticing more shadows. Here's a scene I cam upon while riding through town the other day. This is why I carry my camera everywhere. The hard contrast seemed well suited to a bold B&W like this.

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IMGP4682.jpg, originally uploaded by MattB (somedudeus).

While I'm not too excited about this being so close to my house, there's a certain beauty to arc welding in the twilight.

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IMGP2345, originally uploaded by MattB (somedudeus).

We carved these last night and had a lot of fun!

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