A cloudy sunset at the Cape Otway Lighthouse on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia, with rain clouds off shore. This lighthouse was built in 1848 but docommissioned in the 1980s and replaced with a smaller beacon out of sight here behind the lighthouse tower. In its day, this lighthouse served as “landfall light,” the first light the immigrant ships of the 1880s would see after a long sea voyage. This is a panorama of 4 segments with the 35mm lens and Canon 6D; Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
The Sun setting and warming the landscape at the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse near Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia. Various people are gazing at the sunset, and a photographer is shooting the scene at left with a large-format film camera. This is a 12-segment panorama, cropped at right to be about 300°. Assembled with Adobe Camera Raw from 14mm lens images.
A 220° panorama from northwest to southeast, but looking north at centre, to depict the scene at sunset of the waxing 8-day gibbous Moon in the northern sky as seen from the southern hemisphere. The angle between the Sun and Moon is just over 90°, shown here by the angle between the right-angle arms of the wharf, to the west at left, to the north at centre, and to the east at right. The Sun has set just north of west (this was April 4, 2017, so after equinox), while the Moon sits 13° east of due north. The Earth’s shadow rises as the blue arc at far right to the east opposite the Sun. The sky is darker toward the Moon, at 90° from the Sun, due to natural sky polarization. I shot this to serve as a demonstration of the geometry of the Sun and Moon angle and phase, and showing the location of the waxing Moon in the southern hemisphere sky. This is a stitch of 16 segments with a 35mm lens in portrait orientation, with the Canon 6D. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw. The original is 23,800 x 4,900 pixels.
