Here’s the result using the Canon 60Da on my little tracker head. I spent a lot of time fooling with these in Pixinsight and then Photoshop. Unusual for this part of New Mexico, I had problems with gradients due to smoke from wildfires in Arizona. (See https://www.jjmcclintock.com/?p=139) I believe this is stacked from 5-180 second exposures. Images were collected May 18, 2012.
Scutum region, 5 x 180 sec, Canon 60Da; 28-135 lens at 28mm; f/8, ASA 3200
This gas pump at a Marathon station near my home in Morrow County, Ohio is a living usability experiment. It looks as though customers have pushed everything except the actual button at the bottom. The plastic window over the price LCD has actually been broken by fingers trying to start the pump!
The inch or so of rain that came with the Derecho is making the beans happy. while they look (to me) like they would be attractive to insects, soybeans are self-pollinating. And they are very accommodating to summer conditions. Only about 30% of the flowers will produce seeds, the rest aborting due to dry or unfavorable conditions. The extended period of blooming takes advantage of better conditions when (if) they occur.
