Nullarbor Startrails

[Grahame]

Took this during a recent trip to the nullarbor desert, its 52 shots at 10 mins a shot stacked with startrails.

Taken using a canon 5d mk III, ISO 400 and f4(best guess) @ 14mm

see here for a larger version (http://www.astro-photo.net/jpg/nullarbor-stacked-startrails_web_large.jpg) as the pic posted to IIS has been greatly compressed to fit size limits!

Cheers,
Grahame.

[RB]

That's just mesmerising.
Wow, great job Grahame.

:thumbsup:

[Grahame]

Thanks Andrew :)

[gregbradley]

First astro 5D3 shot I have seen. Very impressive. Lovely colours in the trails.

Interesting how the trails bend back the other way on the right side.
What lens was that?

Greg.

[Grahame]

thanks Greg - it was a lens you are well familiar with - the nikon 14-24mm f2.8 :)

[Octane]

I love it. Stupendous.

H

[alexch]

Love the composition! The symmetry between SCP and NCP is complimented by the two trees. Very nice and realistic colours too, this has to be one of my favourite star trail shots.

Alex

[Ric]

Awesome image Grahame.

A lovely piece of work.

[Grahame]

Thanks all :)

Alex - you wouldn't believe how far i had to walk all the gear to those two trees, they were the largest (and only) ones I could see for Klms!

[CapturingTheNight]

Fantastic shot Graham :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Stunning, Grahame! I really love this!

[ourkind]

That is awesome!!! I love seeing things that leave me in awe!!! :eyepop:

[niko]

what a ripper!

[dvj]

Outstanding image! Beautiful star colors.

[Regulus]

Grahame this is without hesitation my favourite star-trails photo to date. Thx for posting it. Very well done.

[DavidNg]

Amazing shot, worth a visit to the outback desert.

[jjjnettie]

Wow!! Jaw dropping. :)

[Octane]

Submit this to APOD, please.

This deserves to be printed big on canvas and hung up somewhere prominent in your home.

H

[StephenM]

Excellent image Grahame!

Cheers.
Stephen

[DavidTrap]

Ahhhh - Nikon lens on Canon body explains the f4ish comment.

Very impressive. Didn't realise the divergence at the northern end was due to the NCP - initially I thought it was lens distortion.

DT

[Nico13]

Superb mate, the colours are great and the chages at the horizun in colour and line. :thumbsup:

[fittolive]

Amazing image. So many things to try for someone like me that is pretty new to this sort of thing. Especially as i have that lens!

[iceman]

I came back to visit this image a number of times - magnificent work Grahame.

What other shots have you got from the area?
How long did it take to drive there? Where did you stay?

This beautiful image is now IOTW (http://www.iceinspace.com.au).

[Greg Bock]

Stunning image Grahame, looks like you had the perfect evening for it too.
I see a number of meteors, and satellites and/or aircraft too. Just beautiful!!

[MrB]

Haha, told ya you would get IOTW Grahame ;)
Well deserved mate!

[Grahame]

Thanks for IOTW Mike!

I have a few more, will post up later tonight.
Stayed out near Forrest and surrounding region, a decent 4x4 would be needed to go any further, as i found the softroader (late model mitsubishi outlander) i took had its limits :( Drive took 22 hours from perth which was a mission in its self.
Set up tents the whole way and had supplies all planned out for the week. Def something I want to do again, it was such a nice break from the stresses of everyday life.

[RB]

Congrats on IOTW, well deserved !

Andrew

[strongmanmike]

Yeh a great star trails shot that, usually need to include the SCP to prevent them from being boring but not in this case, the switch from nearly south to nearly north creates a great effect and the subtle colours are beautiful.

Mike

[Octane]

Woohoo! Great to see this as IOTW.

Question: did you submit to APOD, yet? :)

H

[Chris85]

Unreal photo! Well done :)

[MartinM]

Stunning! Great Photo!

[Grahame]

Thanks all (again!)

yep submitted to APOD however there is some serious competition there - we will see :)

no aircraft in the startrails shot - they were flying just south of my location and were in all the south looking shots I took.

[Martin Pugh]

Gorgeous image Grahame and congrats on IOTW.

First MKIII shot I have seen also.

cheers
Martin

[pixelsaurus]

Great shot. Well done.

[lacad01]

Very nice shot :thumbsup:

[Dietmar]

gorgeous image!

[naskies]

That's stunning - well done! Beautifully composed.

[dj gravelrash]

The best pic ive seen on this site ever-stunning image.