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Shoot 2024-05-24-200951

This is a large gallery covering two weeks of shooting.

One highlight is the Grasshopper Sparrow. I've tried a few times in previous years to see one of these, and finally got my chance to see one. This guy was singing like crazy for nearly the entire hour I was standing there observing.

I also went out to see the northern lights during the big solar storms of May 10th. I could see a large wide (and dim) arc going low across much of the northern sky, and occasionally I could see some other dim features. Apparently I should have stayed out for a few more hours to increase my chances of seeing some bright moments, and I should have looked more in other directions, including straight overhead. I'll be out longer during the next big solar storm!

I also tried to photograph some bats and other non-bird things... my favorite of which was the Northern Alligator Lizard. It was maybe six or eight inches long, and was completely motionless.

My "birds in review" collages can be found here.

Signature

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The above hashes-<date>.txt file contains SHA-256 hashes of all the photos from this shoot. The hashes-<date>.txt.sig is a signature of that hashes file, created with my PGP key. The signature file itself was written to both the Bitcoin Cash and Algorand blockchains, in the OP RETURN and Note fields respectively, using the transactions below. In short, this proves that these photos and the signature both existed at the time the transactions were written to the Bitcoin Cash and Algorand blockchains. This blog post has more details.

view the BCH tx on blockchair.com: 0b323720de681257bf294a40e67270683cd7d8a0091260414d631387058667fa

view the ALGO tx on explorer.perawallet.app: L5QA6EUM7II6FYLNVWJWD67HQ2ZF5FP6SURKB4E5R3HFGOUOEHSQ

5:37PM Sunday February 18, 2024

This is a stack of 26 frames. It was aligned and stacked by a self-written python script, and sharpened with AstroSurface's wavelet and deconvolution tools. Topaz DeNoise AI was then used a remove some of the grain revealed by the aggressive wavelet and deconvolution stuff. The image has a bit more detail in some areas than the single frame version of this shot. The waves of course were smoothed out, but some detail in the clouds was enhanced with stacking.

5:37PM Sunday February 18, 2024

This is a single frame sharpened and denoised with DxO PureRAW. I made this to compare it with the multi-frame stacked version in this gallery.

8:41AM Wednesday May 08, 2024

Red-shouldered Hawk

8:41AM Wednesday May 08, 2024

Red-shouldered Hawk

8:41AM Wednesday May 08, 2024

Red-shouldered Hawk

9:48PM Friday May 10, 2024

10:01PM Friday May 10, 2024

10:09PM Friday May 10, 2024

10:15PM Friday May 10, 2024

10:17PM Friday May 10, 2024

10:24PM Friday May 10, 2024

10:25PM Friday May 10, 2024

9:10AM Monday May 13, 2024

9:11AM Monday May 13, 2024

American White Pelican