Scenic Photography

05/03/2026

"Moon: Earth's clingy roommate who crashes our parties, steals our tides, and still acts like it's no big deal. Rude, but low-key iconic."

19/08/2025

Winter Breeze Organized by Sri Lankan Cultural Foundation of Werribee - 2025

17/07/2025

A double Exposure

11/05/2025

Super ZOOM Moon during May 2025. Almost 90%

09/05/2025

Sun in day time..

How come its Red and sky is dark?

Sun is too bright to see from the naked eye. We cannot see its colours or its shape. Thats why we have to use a camera and special filters to see it. Combined with photography techniques we can isolate sun to bring as a bright red burning star, whereby this time sky is dark.

One on the left was taken on 04th February 2025 from Sony A74 with 70-200 lens with 2 times converter at f22, 1/8000 single shot. Sun was covered by dark clouds to make this beautiful view.

One on the right is on 09th May 25, using smart telescope (DWARF3) in astro mode through sun tracking. This is a collection of 136 exposures stacked together to get a super sharp sun image.

Common factor is both photos shows the black sunspots but in different places. Thats due to Earth Revolution or Orbit between these two days.

These Sunspots are the coolest parts of the sun. It is estimated the temperature of these sunspots are around 3,500°C compared to 5,500°C on the rest of the Sun

How big are sunspots?

Sunspots are very large. Some areas big as Earth, some can be several times larger. Average sunspot diameter: 16,000 km (Earth's diameter is about 12,700 km). Very large sunspots can be up to 50,000 km wide. Sunspots often come in groups. They are evolving.

Since Earth is about 149.6 million Kms away from sun, we see them as tiny dots.

14/01/2025

A display of space objects. You can capture Moon, Mars, Jupiter,Uranus and Two Nebulas in one photo.

This was shot by Samsung S24 Ultra on 14th Januray Night, at Highly light polluted Melbourne.

02/01/2025

28/12/2024

Sunset and Sunrise on two days at Lincoln Gap, Port Augusta, SA

21/12/2024

No its not Japanese Flag with dark background.
This is mid day Sun at 3.23 pm in Melbourne. In summer we have meridian around this time being a in southern hemisphere.
Due to an unusual climate change with yellowish cloud coverage (This was due to a bushfire in regional area), sun started bubbling in dark red for few minutes. You could see this same view in naked eye.
You can clearly see about 3 sun spots as little dark spots. They are the cooler regions of the sun. It is estimated that the sun spot close to the middle is as large as the size of Earth.

Credit to Sam ST who informed me about this situation.👍

නැහැ, ඒක අඳුරු පසුබිමක් සහිත ජපන් කොඩියක් නෙවෙයි.
මේ මෙල්බර්න් වල සවස 3.23 ට හිරු උදාවන දිනය. ගිම්හානයේදී අපට දකුණු අර්ධගෝලයේ මෙරිඩියන් එකක් තිබෙනවා.
කහ පැහැති වලාකුළු ආවරණයක් සහිත අසාමාන්‍ය දේශගුණික විපර්යාසයක් හේතුවෙන් (මෙය කලාපීය ප්‍රදේශයේ ඇති වූ ලැව් ගින්නක් නිසා විය), හිරු මිනිත්තු කිහිපයක් තද රතු පැහැයෙන් බුබුලු දැමීමට පටන් ගත්තේය. ඔබට පියවි ඇසින් මෙම දර්ශනයම දැකිය හැකිය.
ඔබට කුඩා අඳුරු ලප ලෙස හිරු ලප 3 ක් පමණ පැහැදිලිව දැකගත හැකිය. ඒවා සූර්යයාගේ සිසිල් කලාප වේ. මැදට ආසන්න හිරු ලපය පෘථිවියේ ප්‍රමාණය තරම් විශාල බව ඇස්තමේන්තු කර ඇත.

#හිරු #රතුහිරු #හිරු ලප

29/11/2024

A Friday evening

18/11/2024

Backyard Flower