Driving a few hours away, no A/C in the car, almost running out of gas in the middle of the mountains without service sure screams summer. This was a fun find, I’m enthralled with the images I’ll be posting following this. The place is a lot more dilpidated than the images might show. There area is covered in holes opening up into the basement with quite the drop. We only went as far as the second floor but there was also roof access that was also very heavily falling apart.
Summer Journal: Entry #2
I’ve wanted to visit Cherry Springs State Park for the past few years now. If you don’t know about Cherry Springs, it’s a dark park near the PA Grand Canyon. It’s an excellent spot for astrophotography, especially the Milky Way Galaxy during a new moon which is when we went this past weekend. I was 45 minutes away from it last year when I photographed Keith and Mary getting married at the PA Grand Canyon and the sky looked incredible being so close in the same area.
I use a Sony a7III and for these shots and this timelapse I used my Tamron 17-28mm at 17mm f/2.8 with an ISO of 6400 and an exposure time of 15 seconds for each shot. I took these in seperate spots at the field and this was my first time photographing the Milky Way galaxy. It’s surreal being able to see it with the naked eye. I’m going to aim for a different approach next time with more thought to the foreground and overall landscape presentation, but I’m still blown away by what I was able to get on my first try!
The timelapse consists of 187 seperate 15 second exposures with a 5 second interval between shots and is using 24 frames per second for a 7 second clip. I should have let the camera record 60 more to make this a 10 second time lapse, but this was my first time and I’m just excited with what I was able to capture. I recorded for a little under an hour, and had moved further back from my previous spot to get more of the Milky Way in frame.
Periphery
The magic that exists in your periphery