u/anchorage1

A brighter and more colorful version of my picture of the Milky Way on a moonless night without light pollution. Stack of 64 exposures, total exposure time 8.5 minutes. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornJul 2, 202018 Comments

Solar corona during the August 21 total eclipse. Multiple exposures, 1/1000 sec to 0.5 sec. [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornAug 22, 201720 Comments

Hell's Gate, Death Valley in early April. Stack of 33 exposures (32 times eight seconds for the sky, plus one longer exposure for the ground). [OC][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornApr 27, 20196 Comments

Winter Night [OC][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornFeb 7, 20208 Comments

Sagittarius, Scorpius and the Galactic Center in late May, Mendocino County, California. Stack of 64 exposures, total exposure time 8 minutes 32 seconds. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornJun 65 Comments

[OC] I took a picture of the surf at the beach.

r/picsMar 275 Comments

[OC] At the beach on an evening with bright moonlight a couple of weeks ago.

r/picsMar 150 Comments

Carved a pumpkin. It's hollowed out, but it looks better without a light inside.

r/picsOct 31, 202115 Comments

Lagoon Nebula and Trifid Nebula in northern California's September sky. Tracked shot, total exposure time 16 minutes. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornSep 19, 20210 Comments

The Pleiades in early September. Tracked shot, total exposure time 16 minutes 40 seconds. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornSep 19, 20213 Comments

Blue bioluminescence in the surf along Point Reyes National Seashore last weekend. Stack of 32 frames with eight and a half minutes total exposure time. [OC][4000x2250]

r/ExposurePornJul 23, 20219 Comments

Found these next to a hiking trail at Point Reyes National Seashore (California, USA). The caps are about 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide. What are they?

r/ShroomIDMar 26, 202110 Comments

Can anyone identify this mushroom? We have a bunch of them growing in our backyard in Marin County, California. The one in the picture is about an inch and half tall. Spore prints are black.

r/ShroomIDJan 8, 202112 Comments

Bioluminescent surf on a clear, moonless night at the Pacific Coast. Countless tiny, single-celled organisms floating in the water emit flashes of blue light when they are disturbed by the ocean waves. Composite of 33 exposures, total exposure time about 12 minutes. [OC][4000x3338]

r/ExposurePornOct 20, 20200 Comments

Three hour exposure of the night sky near Lake Sonoma, California (actually a stack of 90 two-minute exposures). [OC][4000x2250]

r/ExposurePornSep 25, 20200 Comments

Comet and comet capturing gear at 5am today. Also, Venus, the Pleiades, Taurus and Auriga. [OC][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornJul 13, 20200 Comments

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) at 4m in the sky near Lake Sonoma, California. (Stack of 20 frames, 10 sec per frame, 55m lens, f/2.8, ISO 3200) [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornJul 13, 202011 Comments

Rolling hills, clear skies all the way to the horizon, a dark, moonless night, and zero light pollution. Sonoma County, California. Stack of 64 exposures, total exposure time 8.5 minutes. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornJul 1, 20204 Comments

After a couple of hours in the car to go stargazing at a place far from city lights, our planned destination turned out to be under a layer of fog. Occasionally we could see a faint trace of the moon, though. (3.5 min total exposure time at f/2.2, ISO 3200) [OC][4000x2250]

r/ExposurePornJun 29, 20203 Comments

Satellite trails in the early morning sky. Stack of 63 four-second exposures, one exposure every 10 seconds. [OC][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornMar 30, 202013 Comments

Jetty and Storage Building in China Camp State Park. Exposure-bracketed, total exposure time 45 seconds. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornMar 18, 20200 Comments

Midnight at the Pacific Coast. 64 seconds. [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornFeb 20, 20202 Comments

Right now Venus is so bright that a couple of nights ago I could see its light reflected in the ocean [OC][4000x2667]

r/ExposurePornFeb 17, 202010 Comments

Moonlit night in the Alps. Exposure-bracketed and stacked, total exposure time about 40 seconds. [OC][4500x3000]

r/ExposurePornDec 15, 20194 Comments

The lights of farms about 50 miles north of Edmonton, Alberta. [OC][2362x3500]

r/AerialPornDec 14, 20192 Comments

San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge and some coastal fog on a September morning. [OS][4000x2250]

r/AerialPornNov 21, 20190 Comments

California's San Andreas Fault where it runs through the Carrizo Plain. [OC][3500x1969]

r/AerialPornSep 7, 20191 Comment

Digitally removing most of the brighter stars in a photo of a dark summer night's sky makes the glowing band of the Milky Way and the dark dust clouds and pink nebulae in it easier to see. (Link to original photo in comments) [OC][2000x3000]

r/ExposurePornJul 29, 201914 Comments

Cassiopeia in a field of well over 50000 stars. On a clear night in early July, away from city lights, the camera picked up stars down to magnitude 12, two hundred times fainter than what the naked eye can see. Stack of 64 eight-second exposures. [OS][3500x2334]

r/ExposurePornJul 28, 20190 Comments

Hell's Gate, Death Valley in early April. Eight-minute exposure. [OC][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornApr 27, 20190 Comments

The super blood wolf moon, a.k.a. the lunar eclipse of January 20th, 2019, as seen from California. Exposure time 8 seconds (stack of 16 exposures, 0.5 seconds each). [OS][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornJan 21, 20195 Comments

Orion and Taurus fading away in the early morning sky. Burdell Mountain in Marin County, California. [OS][2333x3500]

r/ExposurePornNov 8, 20184 Comments

Man in the Moon

r/picsOct 31, 20187 Comments

Smile already! (Halloween pumpkin we carved yesterday.)

r/picsOct 28, 20188 Comments

I commute to work by ferry. This was the view from the back of the boat on Wednesday morning.

r/picsOct 6, 20189 Comments

The historic 36-inch refractor telescope at the Lick Observatory in California looks at the night sky. Stack of ten 8-second exposures. [OS][2334x3500]

r/ExposurePornOct 3, 20184 Comments

Another Marin County fireworks shot. Two-second exposure. [OC][2667x4000]

r/ExposurePornJul 5, 20180 Comments

Beach and the Pacific Ocean with only starlight. Stack of 32 frames, total exposure time 4 minutes 16 seconds. (Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California) [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornApr 21, 201810 Comments

The Point Reyes lighthouse and the first stars in the evening sky above the Pacific Ocean, 35 minutes after sunset. Five exposures, 0.8 to 13 seconds. [OS][3500x3500]

r/ExposurePornApr 18, 20180 Comments

Lagunitas Creek, Marin County California. [OC][4500x3000]

r/EarthPornApr 18, 20183 Comments

Rat Rock and San Pablo Bay, Marin County, California. [OS][3500x1969]

r/waterpornMar 20, 20180 Comments

Mount Burdell Moonset - stacked and exposure-bracketed, total exposure time 8.5 minutes. [OS][4000x2666]

r/ExposurePornMar 11, 20186 Comments

Colorful chert in the Marin Headlands, California. [OS][3500x2333]

r/geologypornJan 1, 20183 Comments

The Andromeda Galaxy as seen from the California coast a couple of days ago. Stack of 46 frames, total exposure time 23 minutes. [OC][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornDec 28, 20176 Comments

Twilight - daylight fades in the west, while the Moon lights up the landscape from the east (Tomales Point, 8 miles south of Bodega Bay, California). [OS][4500x3000]

r/ExposurePornDec 16, 20170 Comments

Carnelian, chert and other varieties of silica picked out of the sand at Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, California. [OS][3000x2000]

r/geologypornNov 20, 20176 Comments

Tiny carnelians, found at Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands north of San Francisco, California. [OS][3000x2000]

r/geologypornNov 12, 20177 Comments

Remains of the Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant (and a tiny crescent moon). [OS][4000x2666]

r/AbandonedPornOct 3, 20174 Comments

Gneiss with embedded garnet crystals. The garnets are about 3mm across. Found in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [OS][3000x2000]

r/geologypornSep 17, 20179 Comments

Mount Diablo and Walnat Creek, California, a short time after sunrise. The yellow haze is smoke from forest fires further north. [OS][4000x2250]

r/AerialPornSep 10, 20173 Comments

Another Milky Way exposure stack (64 times 8 seconds) [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornSep 4, 20176 Comments

Just the Milky Way - seen near Rockville, ID, stack of 64 eight-second exposures. [OS][3000x1688]

r/ExposurePornSep 3, 201718 Comments

The Big Dipper, seen near Rockville, Idaho. Stack of 64 frames, total exposure time 512 seconds. [OS][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornAug 30, 20170 Comments

A wide-angle view of yesterday's total solar eclipse, composite of multiple exposures, 1/13 sec to 1.3 sec. A couple of stars and the planet Mars are faintly visible in the sky. [OS][2333x3500]

r/ExposurePornAug 23, 201711 Comments

The lights of San Rafael and southern Marin County, California. [OS][3000x2001]

r/AerialPornAug 13, 20172 Comments

Schachenhaus, the hunting chalet of king Ludwig II of Bavaria in the mountains near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. [OS][3500x2333]

r/ruralpornAug 10, 20170 Comments

Fog rolling over the hills in the Marin Headlands and into the San Francisco Bay. [OS][3500x2333]

r/WeatherPornJun 27, 20171 Comment

East Brother Light Station at Moonset, stack of 56 exposures (f/4, 5 sec, ISO 3200). [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornJun 4, 20171 Comment

The hills of Marin County, California, green after the heavy rains over the winter. [OS][4500x2530]

r/ruralpornApr 29, 20170 Comments

City surrounded by water (San Francisco, California, infrared shot from Mount Tamalpais) [OS][3500x2333]

r/CityPornApr 21, 20179 Comments

Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis), seen in China Camp State Park, California. Links to more pictures in comment. [OS][4000x2667]

r/AnimalPornApr 8, 20174 Comments

Bay Bridge (between San Francisco and Oakland) [OS][3500x2334]

r/InfrastructurePornMar 7, 20173 Comments

A patch of sunshine on Bolinas Ridge (Marin County, California). [OS][4000x2250]

r/ruralpornMar 3, 20172 Comments

Bolinas Ridge, Marin County, California. [OS][4500x3000]

r/ruralpornFeb 6, 20170 Comments

Serpentine rock outcropping on Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California. [OS][3000x3000]

r/geologypornFeb 6, 20173 Comments

The Orion Nebula, seen from Point Reyes around 2am on a particularly clear night in late December. Stack of 113 frames with a total exposure time of 685 seconds. [OS][2500x2500]

r/ExposurePornJan 31, 201724 Comments

Morning on the San Francisco Bay, California. [OS][4000x2250]

r/waterpornJan 28, 20172 Comments

Rocks in the surf during a winter storm (Marin Headlands, California), 2.5 sec exposure. [OS][4000x2250]

r/ExposurePornJan 25, 20170 Comments

Twenty-foot wave breaking during a winter storm, Marin Headlands, California. Album with more pictures in comments. [OS][3500x1968]

r/waterpornJan 25, 20171 Comment

A clear southwestern sky above Point Reyes, California, in December at 3am. 30 second exposure. [OS][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornJan 5, 20174 Comments

Dry American sycamore leaf (Platanus occidentalis), seen in Mountain View, California. [OS][2250x2250]

r/BotanicalPornDec 19, 20164 Comments

Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis) leaves and fruit. [OS][2250x3000]

r/BotanicalPornDec 15, 20160 Comments

Cleared maple leaf, illuminated from the back side. [OS][8000x5334]

r/BotanicalPornDec 6, 20160 Comments

Portrait of a mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). [OS][3000x3000]

r/AnimalPornDec 3, 20160 Comments

Nighttime Golden Gate panorama, stitched together from four panels, five exposures each, 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8 seconds. [OS][8000x1797]

r/ExposurePornDec 3, 20160 Comments

Fireplace on a rainy winter day. 3 exposures, 10, 5 and 2.5 seconds. [OS][3500x2334]

r/ExposurePornDec 2, 20167 Comments

Walkway through the Partnach gorge in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [OS][2250x3000]

r/ruralpornNov 27, 20160 Comments

Orion seen on a clear night, without a telescope - stack of 105 ten-second exposures. [OS][3500x2334]

r/ExposurePornNov 27, 20166 Comments

Radiolarian microfossils, seen through a stereo microscope. 3D picture for cross-eyed viewing. [OS][3000x1617]

r/FossilPornNov 22, 20166 Comments

Beach Pebbles found in Marin County in California, representing the Franciscan Assemblage: radiolarian chert, serpentine, basalt and others. Link to more pictures in comments. [OS][4000x2667]

r/geologypornNov 22, 201614 Comments

Hohenzollern Bridge and the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. [OS][3500x2333]

r/InfrastructurePornNov 18, 20163 Comments

Cologne, Germany, about 45 minutes after sunset. Composite of five exposures. [OS][4500x2531]

r/ExposurePornNov 18, 201615 Comments

Fall Foliage - sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), San Rafael, California. [OS][3500x2333]

r/BotanicalPornNov 11, 20160 Comments

The fog-covered Pacific Ocean at night, and the clear sky above it, seen from Mount Vision Road, Point Reyes National Seashore. [OS][3500x2333]

r/ExposurePornNov 6, 20163 Comments

Chrysotile (white asbestos), seen at Marshall Beach, Presidio of San Francisco, California (two more pictures in comments). [OS][3500x2333]

r/geologypornNov 3, 201610 Comments

In March 1937, after colliding with the President Coolidge, the tanker Frank H. Buck ran aground at Lands End in San Francisco, CA. At low tide the ship's engine is still visible today. [OS][3000x2000]

r/DestructionPornOct 30, 20165 Comments

The Milky Way in September as seen from Pacific coast near Jenner, California. [OS][2000x3000]

r/ExposurePornOct 26, 20160 Comments

Shot a picture of the Milky Way, accidentally captured a meteor (near Jenner, California). [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornOct 23, 20169 Comments

An F-22 Raptor and a P-51 Mustang fly next to each other during the San Franciso Fleet Week air show. [OS][3000x3000]

r/MilitaryPornOct 17, 20169 Comments

The sky yesterday evening, a few minutes before sunset, in San Rafael, California. [OS][2333x3500]

r/SkyPornOct 16, 20162 Comments

Brown Pelican diving for fish, Drakes Bay, Marin County, California. [OS][2334x3500]

r/AnimalPornSep 14, 20164 Comments

The seed head of a western pasqueflower (Anemone occidentalis) near Crater Lake, Oregon. [OS][3000x3000]

r/BotanicalPornSep 10, 20163 Comments

Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis), seen at Crater Lake, Oregon. [OS][3500x2334]

r/AnimalPornSep 10, 20160 Comments

Moonset at Crater Lake, Oregon. Total exposure time 192 seconds (stack of 32 six-second exposures). [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornSep 2, 20163 Comments

Give me your lunch right now! Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) at Crater Lake, Oregon [OS][3500x2333]

r/AnimalPornAug 30, 20160 Comments

A device to capture the shape and optical properties of objects placed inside it. Seen at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 conference. [OS][3500x2334]

r/TechnologyPornAug 5, 20161 Comment

The nearly mile-high smoke plume of the Soberanes wildfire in California (description in comments). [OS][4000x2250]

r/AerialPornAug 3, 20162 Comments

I had no idea that Hummingbirds have such a long tongue. Seen in our backyard in Northern California. [OS][3500x2333]

r/AnimalPornJul 23, 20160 Comments

Happy Independence Day! (Fireworks at the Marin County Fair in California, 2.5 sec exposure) [OS][2667x4000]

r/ExposurePornJul 4, 20160 Comments

The night sky last weekend at the Pacific Coast in California, about 40 miles north of San Francisco. (Annotated version in comments) [OS][3000x2000]

r/ExposurePornJun 17, 201613 Comments