Not perfect, but pretty dynamic
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Yeah, only beaten by albatrosses taking off and landing.
When Aurora Borealis comes that far south - grab the camera and go shooting (and hope for a spare battery). Even if that means that you have to put back on your outside clothes in the middle of the night and go search for a dark place and listen to the nearby frogs.
In perspective - it is my very first experience to see the Northern Lights and it is extremely rare to see them in southern Canada.
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Nice roll, the way you’ve blown the highlights really fit the subject and contribute to the atmosphere. I especially like the 3rd and 5th ones even though the gardener could have done a better job with the mowing pattern … 
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Nothing special about this photo, I just like the colors, they remind me of late 90s/early 2000s Fujifilm, even though I was trying to simulate Double-X.
I don’t like that this one is blurry but even my IS lens can only do so much with my tremor. But I still get far fewer blurry pictures per session than I did before.
Careful now
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Wow! Amazing photos. How do you achieve this kind of bloom? Any diffusion filter or a masked bloom in darktable?
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Thanks! 
Yes, it’s basically the bloom preset in diffuse and sharpen, masked to the highlights with a parametric mask with blur applied. I ‘discovered’ this effect quite recently and really like it… to the point that I have to be careful not to over use it. 
It’s a little like the bloom you can get from an old uncorrected lens wide open, in a way.
Here’s the xmp for one of them… I do vary it a bit, but should give an idea. This is from an old weekly build though, I’m using the color eq as well. 4.7.0+852~gf0c81ac018
P5120051.ORF.xmp (14.8 KB)
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Many thanks, I’ll give it a look when I get home 
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A short while later the waves had all gone
Sometimes it’s nice to turn the background into black
The lake got calm meanwhile
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a twisted neck trying to appreciate the original orientation, and a sore brain trying to work out the significance as presented leaves me with the question: why?
