Great work. The gel does make the cactus look very rich in chlorophyll, but quite OK given the theme. It's surprising how much light the LCs deliver even on lowest setting eh? The stars look great - I was looking at the same area last night, but from the South looking North. This Laowa of yours seems much better behaved wrt distortion. My L12 distorts "badly" - enough to noticeably change the shape of the bigger constellations.
Fingers crossed you haven't got the virus - guess you're watching A closely for symptoms.

clever photo

I think because it was being obscured by the clouds most of the time... Visible enough at some point to expose as it did, then at other times during the eight mins blocked just enough to not expose again...

Amazing transformation!

Spectacular! Eight minutes ??? how did you get the sun as a discrete disc - sun "moves" 2 degrees in 8 minutes. 2 degrees is equiv. to 4 sun diameters, so disc should be elongated ... perplexed. Top shot though.

Fussed with the processing more this morning...
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o....I like this a lot. The lighting on the foreground flowers then the dark cactus and background.....a winning shirt!

I prefer the brighter version next door, but also enjoy the extra cloud movement you've got withg the longer exposure here. Must have been calm, those flowers are pretty sharp. Two good results from your constrained excursion, and great to see that your back allowed you to scamper up and back.

Some interesting reds in a few rocks, but the overall scene is splendid. A fine Laowa landscape.

It's just what the in-camera software does in Bright mode. It tries to pick up the brightest interactions from each shot and retain them. This really isn't the intended application for Bright mode. Bright mode ME is more intended for things like fireworks where you can blend multiple bursts together, or where there are obviously different/varied bright elements in each shot etc...