Showing posts with label super moon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label super moon. Show all posts

Friday, March 20, 2015

But wait there is more... Not just a solar eclipse!

"Today sees THREE astronomical phenomena take place as the supermoon and spring equinox align"
While people in the UK were treated to an eclipse, other events took place

Today marks the spring equinox, when day and night is roughly equal

And it is also a supermoon, with the moon at its closest point to Earth

It is very rare for the three events to occur at the same time
Closer to our neck of the woods.... 36 Million Americans Under Some Type Of Winter Weather Advisory On First Day Of Spring.


Tuesday, August 12, 2014

super moon

Fifteen very creative moon-related photographs, not all super moon, mostly silhouettes on wowthatscool.com. The sort of thing that makes you go, "Gee, I can do that too with my own little camera." The first time I looked the set was followed by another set of ten rare cloud formations that I found rather interesting too, but apparently they change their lineup over there at wowthatscool.

The picture below is not real. I made this in Photoshop. Much easier than finding just the right bull at just the right time and lining them up just so. 


Know what bums me out? The art that I pulled out of storage to stop paying storage fees revealed a favorite framed art poster is water damaged. They were moved to my new place in a light drizzling rain. Undoubtedly left outside the truck while movers went back and forth inside and out, carelessly minding framed things, and it stood there in storage unattended, unnoticed. Now it is unusable with an unsightly blotch. It is a poster from Santa Fe Opera, a remarkable place somewhat similar to Red Rocks except not a natural rock formation but no less extraordinary for its outdoor setting. We saw the Magic Flute there. That is the subject of the poster, not the usual Georgia O'Keeffe sexualized vaguely anthropomorphized flower blossom and I cannot find its exact replacement online, and boy, did I look. The subject on stage being magic was hopelessly upstaged by the electrical storm occurring at twilight in the distant background above the town. It was a memorable evening and I would like to have the poster for that year.

My second choice would be something Egyptian. Either art related, one of the exhibitions I went to, Ramses II or Tutankhamen and the age of the Pharaohs, or hieroglyphic, or something about the 18th Dynasty, but of all the posters I see, at this point, I believe I've seen them all, I honestly think I can do better myself. Like this right here. This bull and moon took only a minute. Whenever I see those posters I think that I can do better for myself, and I think I just proved it. This was easy as eating pie. I just might do that. Have this printed and insert it into the frame. 

Those poster people should offer me a job.  

So I can say, "No. You took too long asking."