Photographic Missions:
Astro-UrbEx
July 6, 2019
What do you get when you photograph the exteriors of abandoned places after nautical twilight? You get a photographic mash-up: Astro-UrbEx! Which has like no google search results, so maybe I coined it? Also, you get mosquito bites and you get very scared… a lot.
Given these thrills I am excited to do this again, though there is certainly a big difference in the visibility of the stars here, my first astrophotography mission not in a designated dark sky area.
Setting up in Hudson, New York, a place I’ve already explored in the daytime. That’s a prerequisite kinda.
Tonight’s pictures would be impacted by a slew of passing cars, street lights, lightening bugs, technical errors, and clouds. But I am happy with many of them.
The red tones are from the passing vehicles.
Those green blobs are lightening bugs. And speaking of–the wooded area behind this abandoned home was electric. There were so many lightening bugs flying around that the area was sparking magically. I’d never seen anything like it.
