Heavenly-Opportunity: Must Have Software for Landscape Photographers

As landscape photographers, one of the greatdates are
challenges isalready in our calendar.In a previous newsletter,
knowing when to be at a location for eitherwe have already reviewed another
sunrise, sunset,program, Ephemeris, which gives the times for
moonrise or moonset. We recently purchased asunrise and
softwaresunset and positions of the sun and moon.
program Heavenly-Opportunity that makes thisEphemeris has
task muchthree main advantages over Heavenly
easier for photographers in the UnitedOpportunity: 1) the
States.Heavenly-Opportunity accurately predictsinterface is a little easier to use, 2) it has a
the time andversion
location for each of these events, as well as theavailable for the Pocket PC, so that we can
phase ofcarry it into
the moon for over 30,000 locations in the US.the field with us more easily, and 3) it's free. If
The programwe're
includes information for much more than justgoing out into the field and want to know when
about everytonight's
city or town in the country. It also includessunset or moonrise is, then we tend to use
information onEphemeris. The
500 National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, andtwo main advantages of Heavenly Opportunity
recreation areas and 2500 names lakes,over Ephemeris
mountains or otherare the much larger number of locations included
named geographic feature In the past we had toin the
findprogram and the search function. The search
information for the nearest major city, now wefunction alone
can haveis well worth the cost of the software. If we're
information about the exact location we'replanning
planning ontrips, we use this program to plan where and
shooting at. On my recent trip to Cape Cod, Iwhen to be. We
knew exactlywouldn't mind if future versions of
when I had to be on the beach in the Cape CodHeavenly-Opportunity
Nationaladdressed the first two issues; we certainly
Seashore to get the sunrise photos I wanted.Inwon't begrudge
addition, the software allows you to enter apaying a reasonable fee for valuable
latitude andsoftware.Heavenly-Opportunity is distributed as
longitude and get information for a specific place.shareware by Fossil
This isCreek Software of Fort Collins, CO. You can use
a great feature if you are GPS to determinean
your location.Another wonderful feature is theunlicensed version for 30 days. After than, you
ability to search forreally
specific criteria for a location - and determineshould purchase the license. The cost for a
what dateslicensed version
you should plan on shooting. For example, we'veis $ 24.95. The license allows you to install as
been wantingmany copies
to get a photo of the Lincoln Memorial,of the program as you need - we have it
Washington Monumentinstalled on both
and U.S. Capitol Building with a full moon over theour desktop machines and our laptop.As far as
Capitol.we are concerned, Heavenly-Opportunity is must-
We know where to take the photo from (thehave software for landscape photographers. We
US Marine Corpsreally
Memorial in Arlington, VA), that if the moonencourage everyone to go to the Fossil Creek
comes upsite and
between roughly 80 - 100 degrees and ifdownload the trial version. Be sure to buy your
moonrise aftercopy before
sunset - we should be able to get the image wethe 30 day trial period is up. Once you start using
want. WithHeavenly-Opportunity - you will wonder how you
Heavenly-Opportunities, I know that myever got
opportunities foralong without it.Patty Hankins & Bill Lawrence are
taking the photo in the next year will be onthe co-owners of Hankins-Lawrence Images, LLC,
eithera photography company based in Maryland. HLI
September 8, 2006, October 7, 2006, FebruaryPhotonotes, their ezine, provides information and
2, 2007 ortips for photographers.
March 4, 2007. Needless to say, all of these