April 20 Photo Competition - Home & Garden

[300bhp/ton]

paul.deitch said:

I have no problem with that but I don't understand why PH people love over saturated photos looking like someones acid nightmare!
The old masters didn't need to resort to that to create a great picture.

There is a lot of unnatural pink going on.

[RobDickinson]

rst99 said:

And the Winner for April 2020 - as if you hadn't guessed is this amazing shot by Rob Dickinson.

Well done and over to you for May's competition.

RobDickinson said:

I might change my entry.

Thanks rst99!

[eein]

rst99 said:

Runner up 2 is this by eein.

eein said:

Taken in my garden at the weekend looking at the clear skys above Heathrow and Gatwick, this busiest airspace in the world (by some measure). Such a luxury to be able to take star trails without plane lights cutting across!

Thanks.

I did take another a few night later where I managed to sort the 'dotty' nature of the star trails, and get the north star in it, but I caught a few planes so felt it wasn't as uniquely relevant to the current lockdown no aeroplanes situation!

[Dogsey]

eein said:

Thanks.

I did take another a few night later where I managed to sort the 'dotty' nature of the star trails, and get the north star in it, but I caught a few planes so felt it wasn't as uniquely relevant to the current lockdown no aeroplanes situation!

I'm going to guess that that's no plane, rather it's a satellite (or, if that's just a single shot rather than a stack, SpaceX's Starlink satellites one after the other).

Nice photo either way.

[RobDickinson]

Planes have intermittent lights on each wing that make a dot pattern either side