Lobster tail.
My mom cooked an awesome surf and turf meal for us this weekend.
Lobster, filet mignon, mashed potatoes and asparagus.
She also cooked an amazing lunch that weekend as well. She served home made shumai, egg rolls and congee.
Freshly steamed shumai.
Salty black bean fish for the congee.
What an amazing meal this weekend. I think I just put back on all my weight.
On our way back from the river house, we stopped for a bit to eat. I forgot how beautiful the skies were here. Too bad the city skyline isn’t that interesting.
Another amazing sunset at my parent’s river house last night.
The lighting was spectacular. I probably should have grabbed a time lapse of it. Damn.
Dad turned 68 this month. It’s nice to see him do one of his favorite things—catching crabs.
Nice catch Dad.
And of course Jack, always following my dad around.
Looks like he also caught a soft shell crab.
Jack watching the sunset.
Hope you had a good one dad. ^_^
I managed to snag a couple of photos of the night sky last week. The photo above is a still from a time lapse video I created.
It’s kind of funny that I bought my camera nearly two years ago, and I’m finally started to get the hang of astrophotography. I guess I finally figured it out after watching a ton of youtube videos and staring at people’s photos on 500px and Flickr.
Creating this actually wasn’t that hard… there was some trial and error over the last few years, but I’m starting to get the hang of it. A DSLR, fast wide angle lens, tripod, and Light Room + Premiere seemed to get the job done.
If you’re curious, the images were shot with the following equipment and settings:
Camera: Nikon D600
Lens: Nikon 24mm f1.4
ISO 2000
Shutter Speed: 15″
Interval shooting: 20″ per photo
Format: RAW
Again, the photo above was pulled from one of the still photos I shot in a time lapse. It’s pretty amazing what our galaxy looks like. Any problem or issues we have here are so small and irrelevant compared to the vastness of our universe.
I’m really looking forward to shooting some more soon. Until then, enjoy some the test videos below:
I shot this one when the sun was setting. That’s why it was over exposed at the beginning. Also, my ISO was way too high.
And this one was pointed up at the sky. Again, my ISO was too high in this test. I managed to get a small glimpse of the milky way, and that fueled me to try again.
Check out some more milky way photos on Foo’s site.