VENUS AND SATURN AT TWILIGHT
Venus and Saturn at Twilight. Photo © Jim Doty Jr.
As I drove back to Seattle from Mt. Rainier National Park, I was watching Venus, the brightest object (except for the the moon) in the western sky this month. Saturn is the dim planet at the upper left. I wanted something to put in the foreground and decided I needed a row of evergreens. I couldn't take too long since the sky was getting darker and I would begin to hit towns and city lights. This was the best bunch I could find that wasn't completely obscured by clouds.
Venus and Saturn are moving towards each other and will be less than 1 degree apart on the evening of June 30.
Data: Canon 5D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens at 105mm. ISO: 100. Aperture: f/5.6. Shutter: 4 seconds.
STORM CLOUDS OVER MT. RAINIER
Storm clouds over Mt. Rainier. Photo © Jim Doty Jr
This photo was taken at 9:05 pm local time, 19 minutes after the sunlit photo two posts down.
After the last sunlight faded from Mt. Rainier, the mountain no longer looked interesting in the flat light. So I took photos of the light on the clouds in the sky (one post down). Later on I looked back at Mt. Rainier and I liked the dark, layered look of the storm clouds that were moving down over the mountain.
Data: Canon 5D, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L lens at 84mm. ISO: 100. Aperture: f/8. Shutter: 1/8 second.
