u/November-Romeo89

Hi, my name is Thorfinn! May i has some boops?

his face when he's all done eating his breakfast and i am not and we aren't outside playing already. it was difficult not to give in as i finished my bowl of cereal 🥲

i did not expect to see such a vibrant sunset on my way home today but honestly my pictures don't do what my eyes saw, any justice.

finally!

still waiting on my beefsteak tomatoes to start ripening though 😅

what started out as relaxing by the pond turned into "hey! who are you? you don't belong here, get outta my yard!" (what i translate my aussie's barks as being lol) 🫠

hello, 911? yes i'd like to report a double homicide and possibly a veggicide. i may have a lead on a prime suspect too.

a few pics of the many visitors to the garden i had the opportunity to capture on camera this season 😊📸

i decided to get back in to gardening this year but i wanted to try building my own raised garden bed as i've never grown anything before that wasn't planted in the ground. i opted to use the hugelkultur method to build my soil biome since i have a lot of seasoned maple and oak tree logs just sitting around plus a ton of dead leaves and brush piled up from over the years. for my top layer, i used a mixture of soil from my property and black kow compost and went ahead and planted my vegetables!

so far, other than a few bug issues, i feel like im doing pretty well overall. i definitely underestimated the soil compaction once some rain and regular watering got going so i know ill need to get some more soil packed in there after the season lmao. i can't wait to start getting my beefsteak tomatoes to come in!

bonus picture at the end here of my little garden helper 😁 🐶

as devastating as wildfires can be, they do make for some incredible visuals that make our environment feel otherworldly. hoping that these fires dissipate soon though.

13s exposure, ISO 3200, f/2.8 aperture, Bortle zone 5.3

Gear list - Canon EOS R100, Canon 16mm f/2.8 STM, K&F Concept 230cm Ultra High Camera tripod w/ adjustable ball head mount, 43mm standard UV lens filter

Editing process - stacked 16 exposures and 10 dark frames in Sequator, then in Photoshop created layers and used curves adjustments and dodge/burn tools to bring out the gas clouds of the milky way and enhance the starlight, minor tweaking in clarity, dehaze, vibrance and saturation. went back again into Photoshop to edit the foreground with a single frame of my best foreground exposure to lay on top of my edited sky. final adjustments made in Lightroom with linear and radial gradient masks to knock down some light pollution and enhance more of the core.

i have been doing astrophotography for about a year and a half now but have started to take it more seriously as i have gone back to school to earn a certificate and an associate of arts in photography and this is my first attempt with photographing the milky way and putting it through the editing programs i've been learning to use. i know that i could do better in the future but i hope for now that this photograph here is proof of progress and motivation for me to keep up with this to make more progress!

building a garden pergola and dropped a screw

i swear he likes to play dumb so that i underestimate how smart he really is lol 😂