Sunset just after dawn

As I was walking my dog just after the sun had set, the sky was beautifully colorful. I snapped a few photos with my phone, and they seemed pretty good at first. However, looking at them afterward, they really weren’t. The dynamic range is so poor that the camera couldn’t handle both the dark and bright areas at the same time.

Yes, you can stack them via app, or do a HDR, but while those look good on a small phone screen, they do lack of range still, compared to photos taken with DSLR. 

The thing is that you don't want to carry that bulky DSLR with you everywhere, but you carry your phone everywhere.

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Roadscape Photography
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Shapes in the sky

I was walking my dog the other day and I this shape in the sky, and I immediately noticed that it was a spaceship. But I couldn't remember where. Star Trek? Star Wars?

This kind of looks like a huge bird, and I mean YUUUGE!

Sunsets are great for Sky Is My Canvas, since the colours are great and also there a lot happening at the same time. And it won't last very long, you just have to be there at the right time.

This gotta be biggest fish I have ever caught!

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Roadscape Photography
Chevrolet El Camino 1970
Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish

Aurora Borealis

I was walking my dog one night just before we went to sleeping, but I decided to filter some fresh air before I went to sleep and I noticed this faint glow in the sky and I wasn't sure if it was just clouds moving or was it Aurora Borealis. 

I grabbed my phone and took a picture and low and behold: It sure was Aurora Borealis. 

Even though I live in kind of a rural part of the county, but I have a street light right next to my house and I have LED-strings around my house and garage.

In both of these photos, you can observe the blueish coloring in the corner of the LED-strings.

Although those weren't so bright as the photos show, since human eye can't "extend exposure" to gather all the small hints of light in the sky, it is marvelous nightscape to look at. 

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Roadscape Photography
Chevrolet El Camino 1970
Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish

Sun dogs and Circumzenithal arc

It was a bit cold morning and I noticed how wonderful Sun dogs in the southern sky. Then I looked up.

I can't remember when I have ever seen that arc on top of the sky. It is Circumzenithal arc.

I posted this to couple site, and there people recognized these also:

• 22° halo 
• 22° upper tangent arc
• Parhelic circle
• 46° supralateral arc 

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Roadscape Photography
Chevrolet El Camino 1970
Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish

It's been awhile

So, it has been a while. Anyways, here is a couple of short time-lapses from last month:

When I shot this, I forgot the camera out there for a day or two. Then about week later I deliberately set up the camera to shoot night time time-lapse:

Managed to get nice moon travel through the sky. And I again forgot the camera there for two days.

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Roadscape Photography
Chevrolet El Camino 1970
Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish

Magical blue hour

The "blue hour" is a term used in photography and art to describe a period of twilight when the sun is far enough below the horizon to produce a diffuse blue light in the sky.

The blue hour occurs when the Sun is far enough below the horizon so that the sunlight's blue wavelengths dominate due to the Chappuis absorption caused by ozone. Since the term is colloquial, it lacks an official definition such as dawn, dusk, or the three stages of twilight. Rather, blue hour refers to the state of natural lighting that usually occurs around the nautical stage of the twilight period (at dawn or dusk).

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Roadscape Photography
Chevrolet El Camino 1970
Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish

Last day of the last year

The day started as well as it could, a bit cloudy and not too chilly. 

Later on the day we were driving home and saw this huge cumulus cloud and it was snowing so hard, that you couldn't see the horizon at all.

And the same thing in our home. Well, this actually passed our home by few kilometers, but there were few of those cumulus clouds that snowed hard.

Last sunset of the year 2024.

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Roadscape Photography
Chevrolet El Camino 1970
Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish