Shoot 2025-05-12-154544 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2025-05-12-154544

We have birds and space in this gallery.

For birds, I got another chance to see a Lewis's Woodpecker, some decent shots of a Ring-necked Pheasant, and a few other good photo opportunites. It seems like a quiet spring here in Oregon: there aren't many exciting warblers or flycatchers around this year. I heard on the American Birding Association podcast that there was a recent drought in Mexico, and this may have affected populations of quite a few species, or at least their migration routes and timing.

For space stuff I again tried for an "HDR" Moon photo, and improved upon my last one a little. I also got a new Seestar S30 smart telescope, so I'll be experimenting more with that when we have clear skies.

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

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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.

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I'm still working on a nice "HDR" image of the crescent moon. This one is my best yet, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. I made separate stacks of frames shot at 1/20th, 1/50th, 1/100th, 1/200th, and 1/400th of a second. I then blended the exposures together in Photoshop. I'll make a more detailed post at AstroBin and put a link here.

I tested out my new Seestar S30 on M 81 Bode's Galaxy (with the smaller M 82 Cigar Galaxy also visible). This image represents about 8 hours of 20-second exposures, all shot with the Seestar "Plan" feature. I'm happy with how this turned out! I'll make a more detailed post at AstroBin and put a link here.

8:34AM Friday May 02, 2025

Lewis's Woodpecker

8:34AM Friday May 02, 2025

Lewis's Woodpecker

8:59AM Friday May 02, 2025

Red-breasted Sapsucker

8:59AM Friday May 02, 2025

Red-breasted Sapsucker

9:00AM Friday May 02, 2025

Red-breasted Sapsucker

9:21AM Friday May 02, 2025

Evening Grosbeak

9:22AM Friday May 02, 2025

Evening Grosbeak

9:45AM Friday May 02, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

9:45AM Friday May 02, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

9:45AM Friday May 02, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

9:45AM Friday May 02, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

1:17PM Friday May 02, 2025

Ring-necked Pheasant

1:18PM Friday May 02, 2025

Ring-necked Pheasant

1:18PM Friday May 02, 2025

Ring-necked Pheasant

1:18PM Friday May 02, 2025

Ring-necked Pheasant

8:48AM Monday May 05, 2025

Long-billed Dowitcher

8:49AM Monday May 05, 2025

Long-billed Dowitcher

9:54AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover, Western Sandpiper

This isn't a particularly good photo, but I don't think I've photographed Western Sandpipers in such bright breeding plumage before.

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:01AM Monday May 05, 2025

Semipalmated Plover

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:12AM Monday May 05, 2025

Peregrine Falcon

10:37AM Monday May 05, 2025

American Bittern

9:21AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

Common Yellowthroat

9:21AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

Common Yellowthroat

9:21AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

Common Yellowthroat

9:22AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

Common Yellowthroat

9:26AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

9:27AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

9:28AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

9:41AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

9:42AM Tuesday May 06, 2025

8:33AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Tree Swallow

8:33AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Tree Swallow

8:33AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Tree Swallow

8:34AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Tree Swallow

8:55AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

8:55AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

8:55AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

8:55AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

8:55AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

8:55AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Black-headed Grosbeak

9:07AM Thursday May 08, 2025

9:22AM Thursday May 08, 2025

Yellow Warbler

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