14 Days of Photos With Circles – Day 9 (extra)

My niece Sarah captured this fabulous photo of a Sun Halo using her iPhone. This shot was taken in Minot, North Dakota. This is more clearly an Ice Halo than the Ice Dog I captured and showed earlier.

A Remarkable Photo

Here is one person’s (not me, though I wish it was) answer to what is the most amazing photo you have ever taken. And amazing it is.

Inspiration for the Uninspired

Things to keep in mind when you mind is searching for inspiration.

Michelle McNally Photography

Have you ever hit that photographic block where you just don’t seem to be able to create ‘amazing’ pictures; I take many, many photographs yet am rarely satisfied that I have created an awesome shot. With this in mind I thought it a good idea to make a list of ideas to inspire other serious amateurs, after all the whole point of this blog was to get my own creative juices flowing in the coming new year.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. – Man Ray

 We’ll start with the more common ideas and move on from there:

 1.     Start a 365 project

A commitment to a photograph a day project will ensure that you take the camera out EVERY day and…

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A very nice photo of a couple that in Santa Monica that looks like they might have caught a touch of crazy love.

SPH3RE

http://suellewellyn2011.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/a-word-a-week-challenge-dance/

A couple breaks into an impromptu dance on Santa Monica Beach, bathed by the last few glorious rays before the Sun sets.

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Winter in Alberta, Canada. Brrr.

Christopher Martin Photography

A heavy blizzard blew through southern Alberta on Sunday.  The snow fell throughout the day with the wind keeping pace alongside.  The trees on the edge of Kananaskis Country caught pieces of the storm and twirled the snow around the branches in the evergreens.

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I am a sucker for science – Here is NASA’s eXtreme Deep Field image containing 5,500 galaxies

I am amazed by what science has brought us. I can’t get on an airplane without being thrilled that we are able to fly. Giant televisions that almost instantaneously bring events from around the world into our homes via a satellite that is in a geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the earth are mind-boggling. “Telephones” with hundreds of apps that can do everything from telling me the price of gasoline at a hundred stations in a 50 mile radius, to playing my own personal radio station, to letting me shop or blog when I have a free minute, are astonishing. But for me, the most mind-blowing of all are the instruments that peer into the night sky to show us and tell us things about a universe that is unimaginably vast.
Last fall, astronomers at NASA assembled ten years of exposures (over 23 days of exposure time) taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field photo. The resulting image is called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF. The XDF is a window into the universe that is roughly 1/100th of the size of the full moon. This photo of a tiny dot of what looks to the human eye as an empty part of the night sky contains over 5,500 galaxies spanning back 13.2 billion years. What remarkable genius and dedication it has taken to bring us this knowledge.
It disturbs me greatly that while we have achieved the near miraculous through science, we now seem to be turning our back on it as we cut funding for basic research and development, we embrace views that have not withstood the test of the scientific method but instead are really nothing more than faith pretending to be science, and worst of all, we are not encouraging our young people to study science, nor are we adequately rewarding those who teach it nor, in fact, many of the scientists themselves.
I am not a scientist so I have no skin in this game, but it seems to me that we should, to borrow a metaphor, be dancing with the one who brought us and because we are not, the dance may be ending earlier and on a sourer note than many had been expecting.

The tide comes in.

Another very cool photo from Callie Codd’s Blog.

Callie C Photography

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