Cheers Brian. I’m over it as well mate. I’m hoping we can go back into the office after September 13 so I’m OK to wait until then. Anyway, it’s not like it’s going to make be play any better 
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Much appreciated… thank you. Yes, I used a 3 stop at this location. It was overcast that day so no nasty shadows either!
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@Celticstar EXIF data is buried somewhere in my hundreds of back up discs.
Here’s another one if your interested. Uluru or as some call it Ayres Rock. This was a 7 shot pano taken on an A7s with Tamron 15-30mm, f2.8, 30 seconds each exposure. Stitched together in Photoshop. This was taken on the 3rd August 2016 with camera pointed to the south-east. Pretty sure the southern celestial star is in there somewhere??
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That is absolutely outstanding @BK !
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Exactly!
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Welcome @hwsab . It seems bass draws many incorrigible tinkerers and DIYers. You should also introduce yourself on the “Introduce Yourself” thread as well.
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Ok, done that👍
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Sorry to be a pest.
What was the time of day?
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It would of been between 1900hrs and 2100hrs
Cheers @Mac it certainly is a special place
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When I have free time (And I am not injured) I like to keep in shape by … skateboarding. Not so often nowadays, because it hurts double the amount it hurt back when I was 15 or 20. But still there’s no other physical activity like skateboarding with the community around it. I love to watch a new video here and there. Skateboarding when I was the most into was still in the realm of reality. The things the top guys do nowadays are stuntmen shit. ( Milton Martinez's "¡DEMOLICIÓN!" Part - YouTube ) Also, the whole community aspect of skateboarding is something really different from any other sport, so much that I even focused on it a bit while studying at uni. It’s no coincidence that the skateboarding community produced one of the best long-format podcasts on the internet right now. So-called, The Nine Club is often worth listening even for a complete outsider. ( Tony Hawk | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts - Episode 100 - YouTube )
Back when I was 15 I’ve got into competitive gaming. I went through a lot of games with various successes and community involvement (Starcraft, World Of Warcraft (Sitting in front of pc for 30 hours straight was real. :X ), Quake, and Counter-Strike. Over the years I’ve stopped playing games altogether, however, I still love to watch huge tournaments in Counter-Strike Global Offensive. The level of production, play, commentary of these events is on par with the biggest sporting events out there. ( ESL One Cologne 2019 Official Aftermovie - YouTube ) The game is so much deeper and nuanced (because of its innate complexity) than regular sports and once or twice a year I watch a lot of matches.
But by far the most time I spent in books and writing. Throughout the years I tried to create as much accurate idea about quite a few fields through devouring every single available book out there. And I always loved to write essays on some particular topic in a field and then look for someone I can argue about it with. 
However, you can’t get them all. So for some time now I focus only on the fields I am really passionate about. Linguistics and especially the philosophy of language are my main obsession. To be precise, I am out of school for almost a decade, doing absolutely unrelated job, but the core linguistic concern of mine still firmly occupies my mind, so even after all those years, I almost daily read and write on the topic of “emergence of sovereignty in linguistic frameworks”. As an atheist since I was born (It’s a norm here) I was still really obsessed with the concept of religion so I studied it. It’s not that interesting anymore for me, nonetheless, religion and similar behavioral patterns are really interesting and important, so I still try to keep myself up to speed with neuroscience, physiology, and sociology of religion. And the last thing I lose my sleep about in the night is consciousness. I’ve already found an intuitive scientific theory for my mind. However, integrated information theory ( Integrated information theory - Wikipedia) is quite a beast and requires quite a lot of reading and math, so the last few years I spent getting to know this idea and applying it to my ideas and issues. (Mainly in linguistics.) Well, maybe it doesn’t like a lot of fun to most, but I love this stuff. 
Unfortunately, research in any of these fields is much more work and effort, in comparison with a warm corporate job. So I do my “research” on the side on my own.
Other than this, there’re some other things I am into, however, there’s only so much time.
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My hobby is turning junk into musical instruments.
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As much as i surf i could never skateboard. Good luck to those that can…looks awesome
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… and feels even better. There’re only a few things as satisfying as landing a trick you worked on … for any amount of time. It has a lot to do with the number of slams at concrete every new trick entails in itself. I love that so bad.
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Normally tour on my motorcycle, paddle board on the lake and mountain bike. I live right by mountain trails and work by the lake so that makes it easier but with the record high temperatures this year and all the smoke from fires near me, I’ve tried to stay inside as much as possible. I also worked from home for a while so i didn’t go out much except to hang out at starbucks but it left me lots of time for music It’s a good thing i ride an e-fat bike everywhere or i’d be in even worse shape since i haven’t been to the gym in so long 
I also spend lots of time reading stuff online, working on my adobe suite skills, 3D modelling and photography though that’s taken more of a back seat the last bit without much travel. I play world of warcraft and minecraft a bit with my daughter too when we can find the time but that’s pretty much last on the priority list right now.
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Another great shot/composite. You get that much detail with a single 30 sec exposure (yes, I understand the mosaic, but each tile I mean)? Any idea what the Bortle scale is in that area?
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Looks like Bortle 1. Super jelly. I’m not even sure that’s available in my entire country. 
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Bortle ranges 1 to 3 in the areas accommodating tourists to the area.
The other consideration is industrial pollution but that is not a factor in play at Uluru.
PA has some Bortle 2 areas just NW of Williamsport.
Large Bortle 1 areas in the US are typically out west. Lots in Nevada.
I live in a Bortle 4 area but have a designated dark sky site just 1 1/2 hours north of me with a Bortle rating of 1-2.
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Yeah, been to Cherry Springs. Fun trip…
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