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Hello, hella halo!

In photography by webmeister Bud

A whopping halo surrounds the moon. Yay for sporadic cloud cover! Canon EOS 400D (XTi) · Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 17 mm · 30 s · f/5.6 · ISO 200 And no, this wasn’t taken during the recent lunar eclipse. It was shot about a week beforehand. Despite how it looks, this wasn’t even close to a full moon, either. It …

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Craigflower Creek

In photography by webmeister Bud

The roaring rapids of Craigflower Creek. Yeah, don’t fall in, or you’ll get your ankles wet. =) This is an oft-used nature-photographer technique (keep the shutter open to capture the movement of the water) and, while I’ve seen it before the proverbial ‘zillion times,’ I’m still pretty happy with how this came out. Ah, nature. The cheapest neutral density filter …