How Small We Really Are
How Small We Really Are, the night skies have been amazing these last couple of weeks. Yesterday morning I decided to try something different. I drove out to a lake to view the Milky Way, a place where light noise almost doesn’t exist. I went out there at 3:00 am. When I turned the light off on my jeep, I was stunned at what I could not see.
I could not even see my hands in front of my face it was so dark, I had my hand on the side of my jeep and then I looked up. These photos only show a small glimpse of the millions of stars before my eyes. I did have a flash light with so I could walk to the edge of the lake and set up my camera. You could see the Milky way with your eyes, I felt so small. I can’t even wrap my brain around the thought of how big the universe might be. But I did not feel alone, His presence was bigger than what my eyes and heart could see.
I did take video also and put it on my You Tube channel so if you would like to see it, this is the link; The Milky Way and Shooting Stars. It is a little longer than most of my videos because I talk about the settings I use on my camera as well.
I only have about a 3 hour window to view the Milky Way which allows me to take about 70 photos and the videos are only a few seconds long because of the long shutter speed needed to capture the lights of the stars. I use a 10 second shutter speed for video with a DSLR camera and 30 sec shutter speed if I am using the go pro camera.
This photo below is blue hour when the sun was starting to shine its light over the lake.
How Small We Really Are
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41 Replies to “How Small We Really Are”
It sure is easy to get lost in the enormity of nature, especially in the dark with no one or nothing to interfere with your appreciation of what you are seeing and feeling. This was a lot of work on your part to capture these images that most of us, including me, would not hope to see with just the naked eye (and of course being awake in the wee hours of the morn like you).
Thank you very much Linda, I have been sleeping in a bit more than I used to. I had to set an alarm to get for this one..
Yes, you sure would need to do that. I am getting ready to shut down now. I’ve been getting heavy eyes for a while now – that warm walk this morning.
Very nice. Beautifully captured. 😊
Thank you 🙂
Great stuff as always
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Thank you Mr. Ohh 😊
So great to read some of your comments and read your posts. Of course you and your photos are easy to love, they are all so incredible! Did not realize you are 59! OMG! well what else happens but
‘time goes by’ and you produce fantastic posts! stay well my friend, Eddie
Hello dear Eddie, yes time sure flies by. And thank you for such a wonderful compliment. I turn 60 in September, but I sure do not feel like it. I do believe these are the best years. Life isn’t as confusing as when I was younger for b sure. Hope you are doing well and wish you a wonderful weekend coming up. 😊❤
Staring into the night sky certainly puts things in perspective. Your photos are stunning. I had a blast visiting Kartchner Caverns before the pandemic, for a special event, that included a parking lot full of impressive telescopes. KC is a designated dark sky park. Amazing!
That would be fun to see also. I have never looked through a telescope. I will have to do that sometime.
It was incredible! I hope you are able to give it a try. You would be a natural. 😄
Incredibly impressive. Thank you Sandra. How blessed you are to have access to such a place of night darkness with no light pollution. I have often wondered about how spectacular the heavens appeared to people of the past before the advent of electricity. I think of what the skies must have looked like to the ancients, especially in areas of the world where there was next to no interference from atmospheric conditions such as vast dry areas or relative deserts. One imagines Abraham in such a setting almost four thousand years ago. How bright and clear and close the millions of stars must have appeared and the same Milky Way you have captured in these photos. Looking up at such a sky night after night allowed one to become very familiar with particular stars and even planets, and of course the ever-present shooting stars. This is all a part of creation that most of us have lost sight of—literally. It would go a long way for us to regain this lost perspective and branch out to a much greater view of this place and its surroundings in which we live, especially without the soul and spirit deadening scientific jargon put forth to obfuscate the natural wonder and beauty. May we all have eyes to see. Thank you for these pictures and videos, Sandra. I greatly appreciate you and your dedicated work. Blessings
Thank you very much RJ, I often wonder the same thing. I lived in a smaller city for awhile where I never saw the stars. I can not even imagine living in a huge city where lighted billboards run non stop advertising things. I believe my journey in life has brought me back to where it all began for me.. I appreciate and never take for granted where I am now. When I see the Milky way, it is more glorious everytime, is that what it was like when the Father traveled with His people? What a sight that must have been. Truly amazing this world He put us on.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Wow! This is fantastic! 🌟
Beautiful pictures. The sight of the light expresses His might, even though it wasn’t as bright.
Beautifully said 🙂
Thanks. 😇
Absolutely gorgeous…
Thanks, Sandra. Have a great day.
Great photography!
Thank you 🙂
Fantastic!
Thank you Patrick
We are small as even great … and that not even as a potential capacity
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sincere gr8INgs
Yes, so very true 🙂
Thanks a lot dear Sandra,
Great pictures indeed … love’em all
Once i created a li’l vid i like to post now ’cause you rembered me of it
I hope you’ll enjoy it even if you’ll hear german spoken words
from a film with Robert De Niro … and some extracts from a book by Terry Pratchet
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I was very impressed by your video ! Thanks for sharing 🙂 Indeed, looking at the stars makes us reflect on who we realy are….
Thank you very much 😊
Your images are better then a chocolate bar 🙂
That made me smile, I appreciate hearing that. Thank you 😊
Awesome!
Thank you 😊
Wow. That is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
You are very welcome 😊 thank you
Indeed, we are too small. The king of the universe, Lord Vishnu is the mightiest. The entire cosmos resides in him.
Thank you 😊
Stunning, we are on our way to the Kalahari area in South Africa, and cannot wait to see all the stars that you can see from there… it is usually breathtaking. Hopefully I will be able to share good pictures of it 🙂
How exciting, what an adventure that will be. 😊
Wow Sandra, how awesome is our God to create such an amazing vast array, and place us in it, just as you said: “how small we really are” and how wonderful we are so well catered for here on our small planet.
It goes beyond what one can comprehend sometimes, where we are placed in His universe.