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I put my feet in the ocean for the first time since I’ve been here. Massachusetts doesn’t have water this warm in July.
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Catching up after a couple of big deadlines (done and done!)
Catching some light in the middle of the day, looking north east across Ceanheesaval and Loch Calder.
Caithness, Scotland.
A blue moon is a full moon that is not timed to the regular monthly pattern. Most years have twelve full moons which occur approximately monthly, but in addition to those twelve full lunar cycles, each solar calendar year contains an excess of roughly eleven days compared to the lunar year. The extra days accumulate, so that every two or three years (7 times in the 19-year Metonic cycle), there is an extra full moon. The extra moon is called a "blue moon." Different definitions place the "extra" moon at different times.
Top 10 Amazing moon facts
The moon formed as a result of a collision known as the Giant Impact or the Big Whack, scientists figure. It went like this: A giant Mars-sized object hit Earth 4.6 billion years ago shortly after the birth of the sun and the solar system.
Earth Makes the Moon Rise:Each day, though not at the same time, the moon comes up in the East and goes down in the West -- much like the sun and other stars and for the same reason.
Contrary to what you might have heard, there is no "dark side" of the moon. There is, however, a "far side" that we can't see from Earth.
The moon is about 27 percent the size of Earth and far less massive. Gravity on the moon is only about 1/6 of that on Earth. If you drop a rock on the moon, it falls more slowly (and astronauts can hope much higher). If you weigh 150 pounds on Earth, you'd weigh 25 pounds on the moon.
The moon's orbit around Earth is an oval, not a circle, so the distance between the center of Earth and the moon's center varies throughout each orbit. At perigee (PEHR uh jee), when the moon is closest to Earth, that distance is 225,740 miles (363,300 kilometers). At apogee (AP uh jee), the farthest position, the distance is 251,970 miles (405,500 kilometers).
The craters on the moon reveal its violent history. Because there is almost no atmosphere and little activity inside the moon, the crater trace a record of impacts back billions of years (unlike Earth, which would have been just as violent back then, but the craters have all been weathered away or folded back into the planet).
The moon is not round (or spherical). Instead, it's shaped like an egg. If you go outside and look up at the moon, one of the small ends is pointing right at you. And the moon's center of mass is not at the geometric center of the satellite; it's about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) off-center. Earth, likewise, bulges in its midsection.
Apollo astronauts used seismometers during their visits to the moon and discovered that the gray orb isn't a totally dead place, geologically speaking. Small moonquakes, originating several miles (kilometers) below the surface, are thought to be caused by the gravitational pull of Earth. Sometimes tiny fractures appear at the surface, and gas escapes.
Tides on Earth are caused mostly by the moon (the sun has a smaller effect)
Ciao, Luna!: As you read this, the moon is moving away from us. Each year, the moon steals some of Earth's rotational energy, and uses it to propel itself about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) higher in its orbit.
This photo was taken just as the western sky began to lighting in the predawn. A few stars are visible around the moon. I also shot two timelapse sequences of the moon.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography.
Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson ~
Whenever I pass by a homeless person, I wonder what really happened in that person's life. I give what I can afford, could even be a smile, a prayer, or a little of my time just talking to him/her. .......
by Cartenna........
Today I met up with a few of the PAD girls for lunch and snaps. The rain was annoying but didn't stop us. This is Carnaby Street - one of London's coolest shopping areas and every year they have mad Christmas decorations and this year they had huge inflatable snowmen. Looked more like a scene from Ghostbusters...
We also saw the annual Santa Lash crawl. Two teams one starting in SE1 and the other in W1 drinking their way to Leicester Sq.... Noodles, more and more santas