Link to rally point deets:
https://www.overlandbound.com/event/seattle-area-astrophotography-meet-and-campsite-cleanup/
happy 2018 folks! I hope the holidays treated you all well!
They have personally left me miserable and starved for the outdoors. I also went through a lousy breakup of a long term relationship. During the fina l breakup fight, she even told me that I needed to find new hobbies, and that they are not suited for a tech city.Mrs, if you think im going to give up automotive tinkering, offroading, camping, hiking... yeah right, hit the road!
Seattle and the greater puget sound region have a great gift of wilderness and a smaller metro area leading to beautiful skies alight with billions of stars the likes many have not seen. I started "overlanding" because i needed to get to remote areas to learn how to take pictures that i had seen so many times before in my granddad's NatGeo magazines. i road tripped endless miles and have photographed a handful of state's night skies, it never gets old.
that being said, im testing waters on interest and how many people would show to such a thing once we get closer to thawed snow. camping is optional, but probably nice after staying up way late.
basic required items:
camera capable of manual shutter control
tripod (debatable, ive done quite a few shots on stacked rocks)
shutter remote or self timer function
a headlamp with a red light to keep the light to a minimum.
cold weather gear to stay warm while sitting around for hours.
If you don't know how to take such shots, i will be on hand to teach a few people. might be hard to get to everyone if it gets big, but id be happy to try.
the hardest part about this will be working with the clouds, since there is no way to predict cloud cover too far ahead in time. I have had more than a few photography outings turn to duds in a matter of 30 min because clouds sweeping in.
After talking with a few interested parties, i decided to set the meet date for the last saturday in march. we will be venturing up north fork snoqualmie valley to nearly the end where there is dark sky. future astrophotography meets may be farther away, but this locality is fine for now. the site is big enough for 12 rigs up there to camp, possibly more. i will have long-exposure photography quick guides printed out to help people get started.
the site could also use a cleanup from empty cans and shotgun shells, so it would get two birds stoned at once to go there. ill be making a rally point post for folks to rsvp with here shortly.
https://www.overlandbound.com/event/seattle-area-astrophotography-meet-and-campsite-cleanup/
happy 2018 folks! I hope the holidays treated you all well!
They have personally left me miserable and starved for the outdoors. I also went through a lousy breakup of a long term relationship. During the fina l breakup fight, she even told me that I needed to find new hobbies, and that they are not suited for a tech city.Mrs, if you think im going to give up automotive tinkering, offroading, camping, hiking... yeah right, hit the road!
Seattle and the greater puget sound region have a great gift of wilderness and a smaller metro area leading to beautiful skies alight with billions of stars the likes many have not seen. I started "overlanding" because i needed to get to remote areas to learn how to take pictures that i had seen so many times before in my granddad's NatGeo magazines. i road tripped endless miles and have photographed a handful of state's night skies, it never gets old.
that being said, im testing waters on interest and how many people would show to such a thing once we get closer to thawed snow. camping is optional, but probably nice after staying up way late.
basic required items:
camera capable of manual shutter control
tripod (debatable, ive done quite a few shots on stacked rocks)
shutter remote or self timer function
a headlamp with a red light to keep the light to a minimum.
cold weather gear to stay warm while sitting around for hours.
If you don't know how to take such shots, i will be on hand to teach a few people. might be hard to get to everyone if it gets big, but id be happy to try.
the hardest part about this will be working with the clouds, since there is no way to predict cloud cover too far ahead in time. I have had more than a few photography outings turn to duds in a matter of 30 min because clouds sweeping in.
After talking with a few interested parties, i decided to set the meet date for the last saturday in march. we will be venturing up north fork snoqualmie valley to nearly the end where there is dark sky. future astrophotography meets may be farther away, but this locality is fine for now. the site is big enough for 12 rigs up there to camp, possibly more. i will have long-exposure photography quick guides printed out to help people get started.
the site could also use a cleanup from empty cans and shotgun shells, so it would get two birds stoned at once to go there. ill be making a rally point post for folks to rsvp with here shortly.
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