While you open up this post today I am on my way home from Tacoma, WA where I was judging this year’s Pacific West Quilt Show. I flew to Washington State the morning after returning home from a fabulous week at Art Quilt Campus. Check back next Monday (August 26th) to check out my report about the great time we all had.
Today I want to reward you with some more night photography. Week four of the PPSOP course brought some of the biggest challenges and rewards. We set out to capture images of a non-light polluted night sky and then …. waited while taking multiple 4 minute exposures. When I downloaded these images onto my computer I wasn’t too excited… but once processed I was “over the moon” – no pun intended. Three night time session yielded three of the star trail images in this slide show.
Then there was the additional requirement, images of the moon or a planet, and stars that are not distorted. The moon image was a bit tricky to achieve – we finally got up at 4 am one morning to witness a thin crescent moon close to the horizon competing with the eminent sunrise.
I want to share that I have discovered a passion for night photography – will it become part of a series of textile art. That remains to be seen… for now I am just enjoying the process of learning something new.
Anna Hergert, Art & Design 
WOW Anna your photography is absolutely incredible! : ) xo love!
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Thanks, Monika.
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Your photos are fabulous & amazing, Anna!
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Thanks, Susan. I had a great time – wish I had brought my camera with me to Tacome… missed a few great photo opps!
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Anna these images are amazing! I can see how this new passion is grabbing hold! I look forward to seeing I where it takes you.
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That makes two of us….
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It looks like your hard work paid off! I love them all! I am a big fan of night photography too, there is so much to explore. I can’t wait to see what you do next Anna, xx Alison
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They’re magical!
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Anna, these are amazing. I can only imagine that opening and downloading of each of those frames. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Thanks, Kathy. Scouting for locations,setting up the camera, making the images late into the night and downloading the images was equal on the fun factor scale.;-)
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I too like the one with two star trails. Was that a shorter exposure time than the other two? I like the milky way on that one too.
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It was a shorter exposure time. I believe I had it on f4 for 20 or 30 seconds. I am away from the computer with the Meta data and can’t provide exact info.
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My favorite is the one with the autumn colored trees and the two star trails. How fabulous. And I can see how these night time photos might be the inspiration for a quilt series.
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Thanks, Debby.
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