Archive for January 2006
dreaming of the night sky
Gary’s boss has loaned us his telescope for the next few days. Last night, we managed to zoom in on several stars, including Rigel, Sirius, the Pleiades “Seven Sisters”, and a couple of planets, Mars and Saturn. I’ve never seen Saturn through a telescope before, so it was really neat to see what looked like a little cartoon planet, complete with rings.
The other day, I came across a website run by Chris Picking called Starry Night Astrophotography. Mr. Picking lives about 10km from me and seeing the wonderful photos he’s taken of our local skies gives me hope that I might one day get some great shots too.
image of Saturn courtesy of NASA
The Nocturnal Photographer
This past weekend I took part in a quick photography project organised on utata, a cool photography group. The project was entitled “Nocturnal Photography” and it had some pretty simple rules. All photos had to be taken from dusk on Friday 6 Jan to dawn on Monday 9 Jan, at night of course, and outside.
Being summer here, it didn’t get dark until about 9:30pm so I took all of mine around my own house. It was a fun project as I’ve never really done any night photography before. Have a look at my project entries. Comments appreciated either here or on Flickr.
Colours colours everywhere
I’m in the middle of redoing the colour theme of this site, so if things look higgledy piggledy with the colours at the moment, that’ll be why!
First pic of 2006 — Happy New Year!
First pic of 2006 — Happy New Year!
Yes, we live an exciting life!
Just checked my EXIF data:
Date and Time (Original): 2006:01:01 00:00:02
Aww. 2 seconds late! Must be the darn shutter lag.
