space – Graeme Skinner

Woops

Graeme Skinner — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:28:09 +0000

Today I decided to play with type, I’d had some text in mind for a while but didn’t have the right background for it. Thankfully today I managed a couple of photographs before the Sun came up one of which fit the bill quite nicely. So I tweaked the photograph, trimmed it to size, and then started playing with type.

After a few false starts I was getting somewhere and in the end was fairly happy with the result, then I decided to check the text…..

Not a problem, it’s all digital after all no, hang on, I’d flattened all the files in Photoshop as I wouldn’t need to touch it again would I :-/ There were two options at that point, ignore it or start again…

Still there have been worse typographical errors in history….

Just to clarify though, my error wasn’t really a typo as –

The term [typo] includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger, but excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors.

It Came From Space…

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:58:13 +0000

….well, actually it came from the garden centre last year, but after photographing the centre of this Poppy I twiddled and tweaked it in Photoshop and the result was something not quite of this World, maybe

And just to prove I do take normal flower photographs…

Sunsets, Space Stations & Stars

Graeme Skinner — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:37:21 +0000

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 birds on the wires looked like dots on a string, I decided to wait and see what would happen. Well, nothing happened and I had to go to work. In desperation I took the camera and tripod to work with me, and it was lucky that I did.

I started with a photograph of things close by, so the fields in front of the box with the Pennines in the distance seemed like a good idea for a snap –

Then, a little later I spotted the sky changing nicely as the Sun started to set –

I’d not intended taking landscapes or Sunsets however, earlier in the day there had been a Tweet that the ISS (International Space Station) would be making a bright pass at 2104hrs and so I set the camera up on the tripod and waited, eventually the ISS rose above the factory buildings and I took a photograph. Happy that I finally had a photograph to Blip I stood back to watch the ISS pass overhead, then I spotted Jupiter was just starting to rise above the Pennines and I quickly pointed the camera in that direction –

That would be it for the evening I thought, then the Moon popped up above the hills and I grabbed a couple of lunar shots –

As I’d taken the Moon, a planet, and the ISS that night it felt appropriate to take a few star photographs as well

Finally, the dot…

It’s hard to believe that this tiny dot of light is actually another planet, and not just a tiny little piece of rock, it has a radius 11 times (or so) that of Earth, yet we see just a dot of light*. So the next time you’re outside at night and the sky isn’t either covered with cloud or flooded with light pollution have a look up, that dot of light may just be another World

*okay, you can see more than a dot of light with a telescope, but let’s not be too picky