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Category: Art
Stunning photographs from Michael Just
I saw these photographs yesterday. The website is called Dawn2Dawn Photography.
Here are a few of Michael’s photos. (You will have to click on the link. I am unable to post the photograph.)
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There are many more photographs at Dawn2Dawn. So please go there and enjoy them.
A stunning photograph of the moon and Jupiter.
One of the benefits of taking our two dogs outside, while it was still dark, was seeing this sight. As soon as the dogs were inside I took my camera, a Nikon, outside and photographed the moon.
The photograph also shows Jupiter.
The date is Tuesday, October 6th, 2026.
Taken from the website: The Sky Today.
The Oct. 6 lunar occultation of Jupiter will be visible in darkness across most of the eastern and central U.S. and parts of southern Canada. For parts of the American West and eastern Mexico, the Moon and Jupiter will not yet have risen when the occultation begins; they will see only the reemergence of Jupiter from behind the Moon’s dark limb. Strips across northern Montana and southern Canada, and across southern Mexico, southern Cuba, and the Greater Antilles, will see a partial occultation of Jupiter, with the Moon grazing the planet’s disk. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after David Dunham/International Occultation Timing Association
Dolly, who died on the 25th August, was gorgeous!
Dolly was 80 when she recently died. Dolly was born January 19th, 1946, in Tennessee, and died last Tuesday.
She will be sorely missed.
Just three photos of the deer in our back garden, and then the moon.
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Now to the moon, taken last Friday.
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It was impossible to resist taking these photographs of the moon.
What a fabulous person!
We came across this tribute to Ella the other day and I wanted to include a YouTube link (above).
She was born in 1917 and died in June, 1996.
Here is a summary of her life, courtesy of a Google search.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, composer, and songwriter who is often called the “First Lady of Song”. Known for her rhythmic sense, intonation, and scat singing, Fitzgerald was the first African-American woman to win a Grammy and the first woman to win multiple Grammys. She won 13 Grammys in total and sold more than 40 million albums. Fitzgerald’s career was marked by her determination to break down societal barriers.
Just some beautiful pictures.
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These photographs were taken by Ethyn.
More will be shown in a week’s time.
And I heard more about where they were taken: “They were taken June 6th 2025 at the Rocky Mountain national park The statue was taken in Estes Park, outside the Stanley hotel.”
A mother and her two fawns were photographed yesterday morning.
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It was a question of taking the photographs but not getting too close to the family.
The second set of cloud photographs.
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As was said a week ago, these photographs were taken on Tuesday, June 23rd.
Just the wonderful clouds above our home.
The eight photographs were taken on the 23rd June; four to be shown today and four in a week’s time.
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The rest of these photographs on Sunday, July 5th.
Fabulous colours at dawn.
Last Thursday, the 18th, I happened to glance out of the kitchen window. It was about 0445 PST and the colours of the sky were magnificent.
I immediatly grabbed my camera and went onto the deck, looking towards Mount Sexton.
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They are all as shot. The only changes made are the size of the photograph and the intensity of the image.
And we should not forget that today is the Summer Solstice.
The June solstice arrives at 8:25 UTC (3:25 a.m. CDT) on June 21, 2026. For the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the longest day and shortest night. For the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the shortest day and longest night. Watch this video with EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd to learn the top 3 sky sights on this June solstice 2026. And what does “sun stands still” really mean? Plus, EarthSky’s Will Triggs joins to tell us about visiting Stonehenge on the solstice!
