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I was inspired by photographer Lucy Reynolds to create this series of heavily manipulated images. I photographed the locations in a nearby village and although I love the simplistic beauty of untouched photographs, where the skill of the photographer makes the image, I really enjoy crafting these images to create a mysterious story using Adobe Photoshop.
It’s one of the closest galaxies to Earth, but the Carina Dwarf Galaxy is so dim and diffuse that astronomers only discovered it in the 1970s. A companion galaxy of the Milky Way, this ball of stars shares features with both globular star clusters and much larger galaxies. Astronomers believe that dwarf spheroidal galaxies like the Carina Dwarf are very common in the Universe, but they are extremely difficult to observe. Their faintness and low star density mean that it is easy to simply see right through them. In this image, the Carina Dwarf appears as many faint stars scattered across most of the central part of the picture. It is hard to tell apart stars from the dwarf galaxy, foreground stars within the Milky Way and even faraway galaxies that poke through the gaps: the Carina Dwarf is a master of cosmic camouflage. The Carina Dwarf’s stars show an unusual spread of ages. They appear to have formed in a series of bursts, with quiet periods lasting several billion years in between them. It lies around 300 000 light-years from Earth, which places it further away than the Magellanic Clouds (the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way), but significantly closer to us than the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy. So, despite being small for a galaxy, its proximity to Earth means that the Carina Dwarf appears quite large in the sky, just under half the size of the full Moon — albeit very much fainter. This makes it fit comfortably within the field of view of ESO’s Wide Field Imager, an instrument designed for making observations of large parts of the sky. Although this image in itself is not so striking, it is likely the best image of the Carina Dwarf Galaxy to date. The image was made using observations from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla, and from the Victor M. Blanco 4-metre telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.
One of the RNIB exhibition stands at Sight Village 2008 in Birmingham. There were over 79 exhibitors in total. Great show.
While the streets of Liverpool are often filled with interesting sights, they're very rarely filled with such gems as horse-drawn carriages, especially around Vauxhall Road.
Sadly I was in the car, and only had time to safely pull over and grab the camera for a quick snap.
A pair of CSX Locomotives and Caboose hanging out in Lorain, OH. These rails were once part of the Baltimore & Ohio line that led to the railyards and coal docks along the Black River.
The night was a sensory experience of creativity through sights, sounds and taste. Guests sampled some of Salem's best brews and liquors from Deacon Giles Distillery, Far From The Tree Craft Hard Cider, Notch Brewing, and Rumson's Rum. The headlining band for the evening was the Krewe de Groove featuring many Salem Jazz and Soul Festival alumn, and they brought their transcendent mix of New Orleans-inspired funk and soul to the party. Guests contributed to the Salem Arts Festival collaborative public art project "Move With Me", watched slam poets from Mass Poetry and Wreck Shop Movement perform in the galleries and danced to the latest beats mixed by DJ Noel Snow, They created collages with the Salem Arts Association and jumped into the GIF photo booth presented by Retonica and Figsburry Creative Group. Guests were also entranced with a special drum and dance performance by Greg Coles and Company.
PEM/PM: Artopia! was organized in partnership with Creative Salem and the Salem Arts Festival!
Cash bar & small plates by Hawthorne Hotel
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