#367 Recess
Ring the bell.
We’re supposed to run around.
We’re not supposed to be still. We’re not supposed to be quiet.
[image error]this photograph. The photo you see here is about 3 hours worth of exposure, comprised of 24 individual, 7-minute exposures stacked on top of each other, plus a shot for noise reduction and a shot with a brighter foreground. This center star is Polaris, the North Star, and all the others appear to be spinning around it, but are not. The circles are caused by the Earth's rotation, and Polaris is almost directly on that axis. I started this image around 2am, and finished before the sunrise. I shot about 39 images total, but the images closer to sunrise were too bright to use. \r\rThe orange light you see is the light from Monument, Oregon, which is a very small town in the middle of nowhere. The blue light you see to the right is actually the first sign of sunrise coming from the mountains to the east. In the large version, you can also see a streak across the lower half of the sky, which I believe is a satellite (or a shooting star?). The trees are all juniper trees, and you can see some native grasses mixed in with something I can't remember the name of at the moment...\r\rThe lower-left part of the sky has weaker startrails because some clouds came in and obstructed the view for part of the exposure time. You can also see the distortion caused by my 17mm lens, and I left that uncorrected on purpose. \r\rCanon 5D Mark IICanon 17-40L @17mm24 individual 7minute exposures @ F4+ 1 light-painted foreground exposure+ 1 noise reduction exposureNo filtersISO 400","created_timestamp":"1271392848","copyright":"Copyright 2010 Ivan Sohrakoff\rDo not use without permission.","focal_length":"17","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"39","title":"Polaris, All Night Long: Eastern Oregon","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="spinning-sky" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://1000awesomethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/spinning-sky-200x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://1000awesomethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/spinning-sky.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-12036" style="border: 0 none; margin: 10px;" src="http://1000awesomethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/spinning-sky.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="254" />Pull out to our spinning planet swirling on its axis in the middle of our solar system. Pull out to us spinning around the sun flying through the ever-expanding blackness at breakneck speed. Everything outside is flying faster than we can move and faster than we can imagine…
And here we are, sitting at our desks, staring out our windows.
Pull into our chubby bodies full of pumping blood rushing through beating hearts. Pull into eyeball electrons swirling around eyeball atoms in front of flickering brain cells, swallowing stomachs, and flashing nerves. Everything inside is flying faster than we can move and faster than we can imagine…
Everything outside us in spinning and swirling, everything inside us in spinning and twirling, everything around us is flying and soaring…
We’re not supposed to be still. We’re not supposed to be quiet.
We’re supposed to run around.
Ring the bell.
AWESOME!
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