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Originally Posted by Leo.G
That's an amazing area you have there Mike!
Silly question, how do you get on with cloud?
Several years back I took to carrying a lot of gear up a steep incline to a local lookout without vehicle access. Possibly early 2013, not long after having a bad heart attack. Part way up the hill I insisted my son run back to the car and get my heart medication and fast, I couldn't breathe and didn't think I'd make it to the top.
It was for a good reason, a total lunar eclipse.
I made it to the top eventually (after a longer than desired break) set up and started photographing the eclipse, then the cloud rolled in. Not above us, around us. I ended up doing a somewhat quick sprint back down the hill to my car with my gear, it was so much easier going down, drove like a madman down a steep, winding dirt road with kangaroos and wombats in the darkness, broke every local road rule and made it home in time to get set up in my back yard and continue photographing with some missing mid eclipse and the series of images still hang on my wall.
I've never taken my gear up there again and it's perfect to get away from the local street lighting at this one spot where vehicle access has been blocked.
I had considered building my own electric 4 wheel drive ride on/in golf buggy type thing, smaller and lighter to carry my gear in areas like that but I think the legality of doing so would be quite the grey area and after designing the thing and pricing materials including 4 electric motors, batteries and associated electronic controls I gave up. It would have required a trailer too.
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Thanks Leo, yeah, when the conditions are good it is a truly magic location, heck, even when they aren't
That's some dedicated commitment to getting the shot, right there.. heart attack?.. meah, pfft! no time for a heart attack! there are photons to capture!!
Mike