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fdonadio · 2025-09-12T02:28:16-0400

Jon Buffington said:
A few more Arch shots from Red River

Is this the same Red River as is in the song “Red River Valley”? I’ve learned that song in school when I was a kid and, supposedly, it’s a traditional American folk song.

dcy · 2025-09-12T03:19:01-0400

I thought y'all might enjoy this.

Those white dots on the photo are not artifacts. They are stars. This photograph was taken at night, at the Mount John Observatory in New Zealand, close to midnight. It was pitch black. I did not know what I was photographing when I took this photo. I simply put the camera on a table and aimed it at the blackness.

The slightly odd colors are not digital editing. There is zero digital editing on my part. This is the way they came out of with natural light after a 3.2 s exposure. I took this photo in early 2024.

This image was taken with my Olympus OMD EM-5 III mirrorless camera. I do not recall which lens I used. It was a manual lens, so neither the lens model nor its aperture were recorded in the digital file's metadata.

EDIT: The metadata says that the camera chose ISO 3200. My largest aperture lens is F/0.95, and it would have made sense for me to be using that lens when I went to the observatory. So that's my best guess.

Jon Buffington · 2025-09-12T06:30:23-0400

some fine work being posted up!

Jon Buffington · 2025-09-12T06:35:22-0400

fdonadio said:
Is this the same Red River as is in the song “Red River Valley”? I’ve learned that song in school when I was a kid and, supposedly, it’s a traditional American folk song.

I am not sure, not familiar with the song. The Red River Gorge in Kentucky is a beautiful area where the river carves gorges out of the plateau. Lots of natural bridges/arches. Those pictures above were during a flood period. As we went down to the river, it was over it's banks and some roads were blocked/closed due to flooding and apparently some towns flooded.

Stephen Benskin · 2025-09-12T07:06:49-0400

Glendalough, Ireland (revised)

GregY · 2025-09-12T13:53:23-0400

Little Jenny Ranch Wyo, Deardorff 5x7, 81/4" Dagor

MattKing · 2025-09-12T15:04:15-0400

@GregY ,
is that upload leaning to the right?
Or am I skewed to the left?
No comments about Alberta vs. British Columbia necessary .

GregY · 2025-09-12T15:07:59-0400

MattKing said:
@GregY ,
is that upload leaning to the right?
Or am I skewed to the left?
No comments about Alberta vs. British Columbia necessary .

Matt, just a result of wind over time .....no political leanings (albeit that there are lots of at least centrists in Alberta..)
...but the Little Jenny is 35mi south of Jackson Hole in Bondurant Wyo.

fdonadio · 2025-09-13T16:06:21-0400

Jon Buffington said:
I am not sure, not familiar with the song.

I’ve just checked Wikipedia’s article on the song and it seems the Red River it talks about is situated in the south of the province of Manitoba (CA), close to the border with North Dakota (US).

I bet there are a handful of Red Rivers in the US, haha.

GregY · 2025-09-13T16:21:54-0400

fdonadio said:
I’ve just checked Wikipedia’s article on the song and it seems the Red River it talks about is situated in the south of the province of Manitoba (CA), close to the border with North Dakota (US).

I bet there are a handful of Red Rivers in the US, haha.

Various sources and variations of the song place it either in Manitoba Canada, or Texas....

fdonadio · 2025-09-13T16:57:46-0400

GregY said:
Various sources and variations of the song place it either in Manitoba Canada, or Texas....

What really matters is that the girl remembers the Red River Valley and the cowboy that loved her so true.

That girl should gone by now, though.

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