New Nightscape!! : "Northern Lights over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel."
A beautiful night of filming and a great way to wrap up Milky Way season 2024. It has been a good year for astrophotography. Last year, was totally bown out due to overcast skies, so 2024 has been a welcome change. A shout out to all my new friends on the causeway to Knotts Island. Lots of fun and hope the fishing improved. Cheers. JB
New Nightscape: “Pungo Milky Way August 2024”
New Nightscape: "Waiting for Debby"
63 it is!! Made it!
I don’t remember my first birthday, but this one I will always remember because it almost was not to be. I knew I was in real trouble when being hauled away in the ambulance the radio was playing “Nearer My God to Thee”.
Since then, things have changed drastically for the better. Now today, healthy as a horse in heat, heart is rockin, all systems go and in top shape! Happier than a Labrador in a Frisbee factory!
Many thanks to my family, Ben and
Casey, Jazz, my doctors, co-workers, employers (Scott Solid Structures and the
Oyster Farm ESVA), fans and sponsors of Jim Baugh Outdoors TV, Friends Diane, Nick and Amy
plus the North Beach Gang and my Hampton Boating family (Pyrate Pete and
company), Solstice Publishing, Lisa M. and to everyone that has been along for
the Jim Baugh Outdoors TV Ride over the past 37 years. It has been and will
continue to be an incredible ride of life! Attached to this post is my lifelong
theme song.
My oh my, what a wonderful day. Plenty
of sunshine headed my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah zip-a-dee-a
Smell those Shrimp, they’re beginning to boil! Amen!!
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| Jim and Lisa |
Filmed during a Milky Way Workshop over 4th of July weekend 2024 in
Wachapreague on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Jim Baugh
This was a great workshop that was the first in 1 1/2 years due to last years constant overcast skies. Well, we caught a break at least of an hour and it was fairly early in the evening.
"You could see a billion stars"
At least for an hour or so, then the clouds moved in like predicted and it was a rainy drive back to Virginia Beach.
Here is some info on what I used, there were a variety of cameras being
used this night. My gear was
Cannon SL2, Ioptron Sky Tracker Pro, GVM RGB Light, wireless triggers,
monfrotto tripod, 11mm and 17mmm lens.
Exposures on the Milky Way ranged from 1 to 4 minutes. Foreground
exposures were mostly at 1 second.
I used my Shadowpainting technique for the foregrounds and also shot multiple exposures.
This was a successful and very fun workshop. Stay tuned for more announcements in the future, based on weather of course.
Tight lines, clear skies, and Godspeed.
Jim Baugh
Class Dismissed!
