New toy - The Dwarf Lab 3 telescope

I haven't bought anything for myself in a few years so I saved up some money for myself over a few months and I bought myself an automated telescope after careful reviews and some research. I had a few options but the Dwarf Lab 3 telescope seemed to be like the best option.

The app is available for other IOS and Android and is easy to use.  It is quite intuitive and easy to use.  The above image of the sun is the first image I took with the scope.  Spending about half an hour learning to use the app, looking to see how to use the app, the app is setup simply and intuitively.  It doesn't take long to learn how to use it.

I got the scope about 2 weeks ago and it's been raining or cloudy since.  So there's that.  LOL

This is why I love photography

 

Caught Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the night sky tonight.  I will go out again Thursday, Friday and Saturday this weekend.  The next two days will of course be cloudy.  I'm so glad I went out to photograph the comet which hasn't been seen in 80,000 years by the residents of this planet.  I will be out again so soon.  This was caught with the Canon EOS R6 Mark II with a Canon f3.5-7.1 24-110.  I have a few more pictures on my own website.  As photography is my only source of income, please make a purchase.

Haven’t posted in a while

I haven’t posted in a while on here.  Just a lot of changes over the past year.  Been single for 2.5 years now and wish I had someone but it’s impossible out there now.  Wasn’t extended at work so out of a job right now.  Looking for a new job but it’s tough out there.  Gotta keep doing this photography thing.  Go to my website and purchase a print to help me out.

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Haven’t posted in a while

I haven’t posted in a while on here.  Just a lot of changes over the past year.  Been single for 2.5 years now and wish I had someone but it’s impossible out there now.  Wasn’t extended at work so out of a job right now.  Looking for a new job but it’s tough out there.  Gotta keep doing this photography thing.  Go to my website and purchase a print to help me out.

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I am back

So it's been a while ride the last several years.  My girlfriend and I moved to an apartment in April of 2019.  The Rona hit in March of 2020 and it was a disastrous 2  years.  From about May of 2021, something happened between Blogger and Godaddy.  The two sites stopped working nicely together and I couldn't figure out what.  So I stopped posting to the blog and I started a YouTube channel instead.  During the 2 year pandemic, I didn't realize it then, but I fell into a deep depression.  Didn't do hardly any photography or videography.  Just basically went to work and came home.  Didn't go to the gym, didn't exercise, didn't do any photography at all.

Then on May 10, 2022, I witnessed a car accident where I saw a woman die from her injuries.  May 13th was also my last day at work until my contract was renewed a month later.  On May 12th of the same week, my girlfriend decided to leave me.  So that was a wonderful week.

I am back at work now thankfully.  Have been since June 13, 2022.  I'm trying to keep myself busy.  I'm going out more, though I'm trying to pay off some debt.  I'm doing more car camping.  Next weekend is a long weekend and it's supposed to be nice and clear.  So time to do some astrophotography and wildlife photography.

I also managed to fix this website.  Got it back up and running.  I of course lost over a year of ad revenue from Google.  I've decided not to date anymore.  I've been single 2 years out of the last 25 years or so and I've found that I just don't want to date anymore.  This is the first weekend in years where I've slept peacefully.  I got a full night, uninterrupted sleep for 2 straight day.

I'm bringing my Sony a7R III with me after work and I'm taking more pictures and I'm doing a lot more video with my Sony FDR AX700b camcorder.  In just over two weeks I'm gonna be going to Nova Scotia for a week long trip.  No hotels, motels at all.  Just going to car camp the whole weekend.  I want to save up some money for next year when I move to Alberta.  

I am single now.  I have no family here in Ottawa that I have to support and see if they want to move with me to Calgary.  Ever since I came back from Calgary 5 years ago, I've always wanted to go back there.  Now that I'm single and I'm gainfully employed at Fisheries and Oceans, I'm actually enjoying my time alone.  I'm glad this blog is back up and running.  I'm glad I can write again.  I'm glad I can do my photography again.  I'm glad to be back.

Comet NEOWise

Got this photo last week off my 9th floor balcony looking northwards over Gatineau, Quebec.  Hopefully this Saturday it will be nice and clear so I can go out of town to get a better photo.  I want to go to Moosecreek and get better photos and videos of the comet.  The photos are available for sale on my own website.  It’s also available for sale on my Adobe stock portfolio.  Since this is my only form of income right now, please consider purchasing something from either site.  Thank you and I appreciate it.

More social distance photography and videography

This past weekend, the fiancee and I headed out to the middle of nowhere.  Literally the middle of nowhere.  We actually headed out to a little town of Moosecreek which is situated between Ottawa and Montreal.  The site we went to was actually in the middle of a farmers field which is accessible by a public road.  This public road is known to a few astronomy clubs here in Ottawa and in Montreal.  

The above shot was taken with my Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max (64GB) Space Grey model.  I wish I bought the 512GB model but I'm not willing to pay $1999 plus tax for a phone.  

It was a beautiful night with some clouds in the sky.  You can check out my Shutterstock portfolio here to see the shots I got with the Sony a7Rii and the Sony f3.5-6.3 24-240MM lens.  I only uploaded 5 shots and they were all accepted.  I'm still editing the footage from that night and hopefully those will be approved soon.  The above shot is of my brand new toy, the Canon Vixia HF G50 4K camcorder.  I absolutely love the Canon Vixia line of camcorders.  The only thing this model is missing is 4K/60fps as it only shoots 4K/30fps.  

My goal now is to buy an Apple Macbook Pro 16 inch that is completely or somewhat completely pimped out.  I want to buy a Macbook Pro 16 inch with at least 1TB of internal storage, 8GB video card and 64GB of RAM.  I don't want the 8TB internal storage as it is too expensive.  I'd rather get two external drives with 8TB of storage.  If you want to help me out, you can go to my site and click on one of the links on the right hand side which will take you to one of my portfolios where you can buy some of my photography or some of my footage.  You can also donate via Paypal via the Paypal button on my site.  If you donate, I will send you a jpeg file of one of my photos that you can print or use wherever you like, just as long as you don't try and sell it.

Astro images from last night

It was nice and cool last night with no humidity.  Images turned out ok.  There were clouds in the south west so I did not take any astrophotography from there.  I really need to go to a real dark sky site like Algonquin Park to get away from the city lights.  The above is a shot of the Big Dipper constellation 

Astrophotography

Tonight, we go do some astrophotography and flying the drone.  Hopefully we'll see some Northern Lights and some nice long meteors.

Northern Lights dance on a dark night

Caught these a few years back.  Have not seen them since. 

The 2018 Perseid meteor shower

The 2018 Perseid meteor shower this weekend meaning Ottawa is either going to get severe thunder storms or heavy snow fall.  I actually just looked at the Clear Sky Chart for Ottawa and guess what?  No rain, no snow, no clouds.  Which means I'm going to take a few photography friends, drive out into the country and go do some photography.

I'm also going to shoot some drone footage today and tomorrow as it's supposed to be a nice weekend.