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We went for a walk up to the former Geodetic Observatory overlooking the Orroral valley in the Namadgi national park (ACT tip of the snowies)

The view from the lookout next to the old Observatory.. Some PP done on this one including a gradient layer to bring up the brightness of the FG without blowing the clouds... I used a CP on this one..
You can see some squally showers coming through.. we has a mixture of snow, sleet and rain while we were up there...


The old Observatory which was used for laser rangefinding to a retro reflector on the moon...


One advantage of nasty weather was lovely rainbows we got as we were arriving back at the car.. now where's my pot of gold?


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Love the third one here Scott - brilliant
Now where IS your pot of grass, erm..I mean gold

Love the 3rd one too, thats a really vibrant rainbow!

Scott

I like #1 and #3. Good to see you putting the Photoshop Rainbow Maker filter to good use too. IN #2 the perspective doesn't work because it makes the observatory look more short and squat than it probably is.

Alpha_7 wrote:Love the 3rd one too, thats a really vibrant rainbow!

And do you know what the key is?

Because light in a rainbow is from internal reflection it has a polarised component... so by using the polariser you can increase how it stands out from the background

yeah, #2 was much more of a happy snap that 1 and 3... it was a fairly short structure... I have another one at a different perspective I will play with shortly...

I like #3 out of these.
It dosent matter how fast you run to that rainbow end, it just keeps moving.

Nice shots, but #3 is the stand out. And thanks for the polarising tip. I will have to give it a go.

Cheers,

Great shots MHD,

I love the Dome one with the person in it.
Rainbow is caught really well as well.

Mic

Scott, love the rainbow and thanks for sharing the polarising trick, had never heard of it.

Are you saying they bounced a laser from that structure to the moon and back? Quite amazing, looks like something I could build in the backyard.

love #1 and #3.

the rainbow is so colourful and the sky in number 1 is awesome.

Glen wrote:Scott, love the rainbow and thanks for sharing the polarising trick, had never heard of it.

Are you saying they bounced a laser from that structure to the moon and back? Quite amazing, looks like something I could build in the backyard.

Yep... laser range finding... it was in service as recently as 1997..
They closed it down and moved the facilities to Stromlo and put boulders and crap along the road so it makes a nice walking track now...

Amazing Scott. Pity they didn't leave it as a shelter for storms etc but I assume personal injury laws prevent that