stars – Graeme Skinner

It’s full of stars…

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 15:53:37 +0000

On our trip over the border we were lucky enough to have a couple of nights where the sky was amazing clear, it would have been wrong not to take a couple of photographs

Coming together…

Graeme Skinner — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:59:12 +0000

I went out early to see the coming together of Jupiter and Venus, okay, they didn’t quite come together but they were quite close from where I saw them from anyone, before they popped over the Pennines I took a photo of Orion over the pond…

Under the stars

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:41:41 +0000

I’ve had a few ideas for star filled paintings recently, mainly they’ve been science fiction with sleek space ships zooming around. However the other day I returned to a Tolkien theme of Hobbits wandering under a star filled sky. The main aim was to make the Hobbits just visible enough to be in the painting yet make it believable that they were wandering under the stars with little to no Moon to illuminate the scene. Another aim was to use real star positions rather than just splatter the painting with dots of paint, so the stars in this painting are pretty accurate (I didn’t measure the exact positions you understand, but placed them in the vicinity of where they should be).

As dark paintings are hard to view small you can click the above image for a larger version

Snow Day

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:45:59 +0000

Our day started far too early as we walked to the end of the lane to see if we could get the car up the hill. There turned out to be far too much snow to bother attempting it so we returned home, decided to take a quick photo of Cassiopeia over the snowy trees…

Then I waited for it to get a bit lighter before venturing out again

Another first

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:04:28 +0000

Well, another first of the season anyway. Last night (or rather early early this morning) I decided to take a couple of night sky photographs, I was at work so I could not move far (well I could stand at the bottom of the steps at work and still hear the phone ring so that was my range ;-)). Anyway, here’s a couple of night sky shots from Kirkby Stephen signal box, and finally one of the night sky over Kirkby Stephen station.