bystander wrote:Agreed! With all the planning, time, and effort that goes into Wally's portraiture of the night skies, this one comes down to a lucky catch. Still, I can't help but wonder what Wally's detractors will find wrong with this one. Nice shot, Wally! As much as I admire your work, this might be one of your best.
OK... the problem isn't that Wally's pictures aren't beautiful & perfect;
the problem is precisely that Wally's pictures are
TOO beautiful & perfect.
The fun part of most APOD pictures IMO is that
the harder you contemplate them the more you learn.
Contemplating Wally's "pictures" very hard simply gives one a headache.
I don't doubt for a minute that Wally went out personally the other night & took 1500 frames
which he then sent to some professional photoshop outfit to produce a beautiful montage.
However, by the time that montage comes back from the professional
photoshop outfit
who knows what the hell one is seeing.
I'll take a scientific Chris Peterson
montage of the Geminids
over Wally's artistic montage of a Geminid fireball any day of the week
[quote="bystander"]Agreed! With all the planning, time, and effort that goes into Wally's portraiture of the night skies, this one comes down to a lucky catch. Still, I can't help but wonder what Wally's detractors will find wrong with this one. Nice shot, Wally! As much as I admire your work, this might be one of your best.[/quote]
OK... the problem isn't that Wally's pictures aren't beautiful & perfect;
the problem is precisely that Wally's pictures are [b][color=#FF0000]TOO[/color][/b] beautiful & perfect.
The fun part of most APOD pictures IMO is that
the harder you contemplate them the more you learn.
Contemplating Wally's "pictures" very hard simply gives one a headache.
I don't doubt for a minute that Wally went out personally the other night & took 1500 frames
which he then sent to some professional photoshop outfit to produce a beautiful montage.
However, by the time that montage comes back from the professional
photoshop outfit [b]who knows what the hell one is seeing.[/b]
I'll take a scientific Chris Peterson [b][url=http://www.cloudbait.com/science/geminid2009.html]montage of the Geminids[/url][/b]
over Wally's artistic montage of a Geminid fireball any day of the week :!: