{"id":9520,"date":"2024-09-20T11:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2024-10-17T07:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T20:48:25","slug":"return-to-the-warrumbungles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmcgibbon.com\/news\/return-to-the-warrumbungles\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to the Warrumbungles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My wife and I made the trip back up to the Warrumbungles National Park. I didn’t get enough the last time<\/a>. I’d planned to do a few star shots and some more bird photography. Things didn’t quite go to plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving in the early evening we set the tents up quickly. The plan was, to get the 500mm lens out, load it on the tripod and see if I could get any shots of a nebula or planet For the record, I’m not an astrophotographer. For me, it’s a case of playing with the settings until I get it right. There’s a lot of skill and dedicated equipment needed to get the real stellar shots (like that one?) but being such a beautiful dark sky park I figured I could still get something<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All looked good on paper but it turns out I had three things worked against me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. I left my large lens at home in my other bag<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. I left the tripod mounting plate on my remote camera, again at home,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. the moon was on its way to being a supermoon which meant the stars were nowhere near as bright as they’d been two weeks previous<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Not a great start. Improvising where I could I gaffed taped my camera to my tripod and shot the landscape under the moonlight. 

    The lack of a large lens also limited my bird photography (as with the Astro stuff it’s half luck if I get a good shot). I had the 200mm with me so just shot and cropped where I could. there are so many little birds flitting around but I couldn’t get close enough to them to get a great shot.

     In the end, I think it was all in my favour. I took it as a sign to put the camera down for a change, enjoy myself and be present. Too often I am running around looking for my next shot. We camped out at the wonderful Blackman camp, enjoyed the chilly nights and frosty mornings, did a couple of short hikes and some drives to explore the surrounding area<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mistakes were made but still\u2026..trip number 3 to the Warrumbungles is already in planning. Hopefully, mistakes were also learned from.<\/p>\n\n\n

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