Category: Photography

Picture Parade Five Hundred and Twenty-One

More NASA images.

And what images.

NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. The telescope leveraged almost its full operational lifetime to show us changes in the nebula on human time scales with an improved camera.
NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

There is more information on the NASA website.

Now a YouTube video.

What terrific images from Hubble.

Picture Parade Five Hundred and Fourteen

My deer friends!

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These are the deer in our garden. I feed them every morning and they have become good friends. However, taking the photos was tricky as I had to use a zoom lens and I did not have a tripod with me.

A clean chimney

What a difference it has made!

Last Wednesday, Smokey’s Stoves in Grants Pass, came to the house to clean the chimney, and the fire, in our lounge.

I had not realised how much soot and ‘muck’ had accumulated.

According to one of two gentlemen that came, the top of the metal chimney where is exits the roof was so clogged up there was only a small space, about an inch in diameter, left. There was over a huge bucketful of ash taken from the fireplace.

In the afternoon we lit a fire and basked in the heat, and the brilliance of a clean fireplace.

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Well done, Smokey’s Stoves.

The full moon

Just had to take a photograph!

I was washing up the dishes two nights ago and the kitchen faces East.

Even though I did not have a tripod I did have a ‘monopod’.

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Just a perfect moon!

Picture Parade Five Hundred and Twelve

In honour of July 4th and America’s 250th birthday.

(And they were to be shown on the 22nd February but the snowy scenes took priority.)

These are photographs of Mount Rushmore Natioanl Memorial.

They have not be taken by me and hopefully the photographers who did take them will allow me to republish them,

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Gutzon Borglum was the principal sculptor at Mt Rushmore

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Impressive!

Gutzon Borglum did an incredible work of sculpture. Just amazing!

Picture Parade Five Hundred and Eleven

Photos taken this last week.

Four of nearby Mount Sexton, two of the sky above our house, and three of our yard to the East.

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