InnerSpace
Mar 17th, 2008 by John Setzler
The newspaper sent me on another very interesting non-sports assignment this evening. In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, the Catawba Science Center held a U2 concert and laser light show in the Millholland Planetarium. I wanted to get some photos of the laser light show but I didn’t want to try to set up a tripod in an environment with a lot of people. I went to the 6pm show in hopes of having less than a full house of people, and it paid off. I was able to sit in one of the recumbent chairs with an empty seat next to me. I set my camera bag in the seat beside me, put on my 17-40mm lens, and just set the camera pointing upward on the camera bag. I used my cable release with the camera in bulb mode to capture a series of longer exposures of the laser light show.
Sadly, today was my first trip back to the planetarium since October 5, 2007, when I covered the opening of the new facility with the planetarium and aquariums. I really want to go see some of the shows at the planetarium, and being back in there again tonight reminded me of this. I think I’ll try to catch a couple of their shows in the coming weeks…
In the mean time, I have a pint of Ben & Jerry’s “Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobler” ice cream staring me in the face… later :)