Puppypictures!
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sff_corgi_ljI would have been more on-time with this, but Certain Witches were hogging the Semagic.
Batch 32! (with a bunch of photos from
Myfanwy
Also, I promised
Blade
And just because:
FIRST SIRIUS SIGHTING, WHAHOOOO!! His helical rising was actually August 1 according to one website, but A: that's still too close to the sun to see anything that date, B: Miami's horizons aren't, unless you take a boat out onto the Bay and hope it's a clear morning on top of that. I was working an overtime shift, that, once I got through with work and packing up and Panera and driving home and getting attacked by puppies and all, made it feasible for me to stay up that little bit longer to look to the horizon, such as it is (between roofs and trees, actually).
I had some entertainment of a sort while I waited - Mercury was conjuncting Venus! Now, Venus is so easy to spot (she's apparently around full phase right now, too), but figuring out which glimmer was Mercury? A little trickier. This is only the second time I've ever knowingly seen the planet. Horizon issues, remember? As the sky started to glow gemstone blue, it became more apparent when the speck of off-white below Venus brightened a little, to my eye, instead of fading like the stars. I tried taking a photo.
Well.
'Tried' is the operative word.
Take a look, if you want to have a snigger. Curse my sudden but inevitable poor low-light photography!
I got all vexed by clouds to the south, thought I'd spotted Sirius struggling through the excessive humidity, went inside to do... oh, something, came back out to look again and realised I'd been rooked by a ringer. Hey, c'mon! They were heavy clouds, it would have been the right amount of filtering, and the star was in the right place at the right time! (It might have been Murzim, beta Canis Majoris.) Here is the real thing. Yes, it's another pathetic photo, but it's better than nothing. Isn't it? Kinda?
Through my binoculars, Sirius looked gorgeous. That low in the sky, his light was getting refracted like crazy, so the effect was that he glittered prismatically, flashes of red, blue, green... really beautiful. And also shining very strongly against a sky that had definitely lightened to a luminous, transparent lapis blue.
Now to wait a month or so, so I can see him at more convenient times....
Batch 32! (with a bunch of photos from
MyfanwyAlso, I promised
Blade- General front yard foliage
- Poinciana blossom
- Flowers and mature pod
- Clump of flowers
- Flowers and pods again
And just because:
FIRST SIRIUS SIGHTING, WHAHOOOO!! His helical rising was actually August 1 according to one website, but A: that's still too close to the sun to see anything that date, B: Miami's horizons aren't, unless you take a boat out onto the Bay and hope it's a clear morning on top of that. I was working an overtime shift, that, once I got through with work and packing up and Panera and driving home and getting attacked by puppies and all, made it feasible for me to stay up that little bit longer to look to the horizon, such as it is (between roofs and trees, actually).
I had some entertainment of a sort while I waited - Mercury was conjuncting Venus! Now, Venus is so easy to spot (she's apparently around full phase right now, too), but figuring out which glimmer was Mercury? A little trickier. This is only the second time I've ever knowingly seen the planet. Horizon issues, remember? As the sky started to glow gemstone blue, it became more apparent when the speck of off-white below Venus brightened a little, to my eye, instead of fading like the stars. I tried taking a photo.
Well.
'Tried' is the operative word.
Take a look, if you want to have a snigger. Curse my sudden but inevitable poor low-light photography!
I got all vexed by clouds to the south, thought I'd spotted Sirius struggling through the excessive humidity, went inside to do... oh, something, came back out to look again and realised I'd been rooked by a ringer. Hey, c'mon! They were heavy clouds, it would have been the right amount of filtering, and the star was in the right place at the right time! (It might have been Murzim, beta Canis Majoris.) Here is the real thing. Yes, it's another pathetic photo, but it's better than nothing. Isn't it? Kinda?
Through my binoculars, Sirius looked gorgeous. That low in the sky, his light was getting refracted like crazy, so the effect was that he glittered prismatically, flashes of red, blue, green... really beautiful. And also shining very strongly against a sky that had definitely lightened to a luminous, transparent lapis blue.
Now to wait a month or so, so I can see him at more convenient times....
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Date: 2006-08-07 07:08 am (UTC)I sympathise with you entirely. Xandra and Claude have completely stolen my computer of late.
Also, that Sirius photo reminds me of one I took of the city of Naples. Except mine's about a thousand times worse because there were thousands of lights in mine. ;-)
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Date: 2006-08-07 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-07 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-07 08:41 pm (UTC)Cute pups, as always! ;]
Thanks for the look at Royal Poinciana -- I think I've seen them in my travels, but not close up.
Sirius = cool. Photography = tripod?!? One should eb on your Christmas list, at least! Without one, those're great shots! ;D
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Date: 2006-08-07 08:56 pm (UTC)I had a tripod once. :( I can be very good at holding still sometimes; had this one shot once where the only thing moving in the photo was my blood pressure, up-down blur. But those remind me of things better left not-remembered, alas. (I hate it when people TOUCH my STUFF.)