Catch a falling Star
This is my second attempt at capturing meteor showers on camera.
It is a tradition every year to go out watching the meteor showers on my birthday, August the 13th, because the peak time usually falls right on or about my birthday.
My husband and I met in August 12 years ago today, and we’ve been together ever since. the night we met two “stars” streaked across the sky at the same time, and though both of us are more concrete thinkers, than fate, luck believers, we took it as a sign that we were meant to be together.
For 12 years we have gone out for the night with blankets and laid in field and stared up at the sky. In Cape Breton, in Durham region, and for the past five years in Prince Edward County. We ‘ve been a new couple in love, newlyweds, parents to be twice, and for the last 9 years, parents with little ones teaching them about the sky, and the universe, and the stars, and science.
This year, now living more rural, we didn’t have to drive too far to go see the stars. we drove 3 minutes away from our hamlet, onto a back dirt road, and set the kids, now 5 and 9 on blow up mattresses and pillows and blankets. they watched for a little while and then fell asleep and slept under the stars, while hubby and I sat in the dark with our cameras pointed at the sky, trying to capture a streaking meteor in our lenses.
He got a few pictures, as did I. Mine have not turned out the best, I’ve not touched them up in any way. The light bleed in the sky gives the photo a lot of noise. But I cherish the photo, because I cherish the times we have when we are out looking at the stars.
It might be simple and boring to some. but once a year, going out to stare up at the sky centers me, and brings me back to the now, and always gives me a sense of peace for weeks afterwards.
Whenever I need a breather in our fast paced, hectic, stressful life of raising two different ability children, I walk outside and look for the big dipper and breathe.
The light noise in this picture and the brightness above the tree line is the town of Picton from Crowes Road in Milford, 12 klm away.
