Sometimes you just have to go with the flow, not in the “follow the crowd” sense, but in the sense that when you’re feeling inspired you should just see what happens. This morning I came home from dropping Julie off for work and the Moon was starting to illuminate a little bit of mist beneath the Pennines whilst Orion stood rather majestically to it’s right. So I grabbed the camera and tripod and proceeded to take far too many photographs, but then you never know in low light what is…
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All stuff astronomical.
Sunsets, Space Stations & Stars
Oh yes, there was a landscape too 🙂 Yesterday I was having problems, nothing serious, but I was struggling to take a photograph to Blip. I took a few photographs on our morning walk but when I looked at them on screen none of them were any good. I took a cobweb, but there was no spider in it and the light wasn’t exciting; I took some shafts of light in the wood, but when I looked at the results it was a dark mush of nothing; my photographs of…
Read MoreOn the shoulders of giants
In 1159 John of Salisbury wrote “Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”
Read MoreComet Lulin
Last night the clouds broke, it’s not quite a miracle but near enough 😉 Sadly even though the clouds had virtually gone the wind was still there (it’s one of the downsides of living on a hillside being exposed to the winds a bit more), so with the wind there was little point digging out the ‘scope I did however manage to get a look at Comet Lulin through binoculars. Okay, binoculars don’t give you the amazing clarity you see in the wonderful photographs that have been posted online for…
Read MoreChanging
The first new growth for 2009 is coming through, it’s a good time of year…
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