Today, I felt like doing a little experiment. It pretty much turned out how I had imagined, but I might need to get a new vase for my next experiment.
As I write this, the summer is already nearing its end. The temperature has started to dip down and soon enough the leaves are going to start to change all sorts of colours. A new season will start, repainting our neighbourhood. We’re ready to tackle the colder weather and the beautiful autumn cityscapes. In the meantime, here are a few pictures I took while at the cottage during the summer. It’s not a large collection, but that’s all I have from this summer. Enjoy, share, comment!
* click an image for larger size (cliqué sur une image pour la voir en grand format).
So, it’s been a while since I posted a Photo Friday set, but here it is. I’ve been thinking of shooting drop of water for a while, but never got to it. So here they are – I hope you enjoy them. Which one is your favourite?
Bon, ca fait longtemps que je n’ai pas posté un Photo Friday, mais mieux vaut tard que jamais! Ça fait déjà un bon bout que je veux prendre une photo d’une goutte d’eau qui tombe dans l’eau, mais j’avais jamais le temps. Enfin, les voici – j’espère que vous les aimerez! Quelle est votre préférée?
Apparently, the moon on March 19th, 2011 was a super moon, which just means that the moon appears bigger and brighter than usual (about 20 percent brighter and 15 percent bigger in this particular instance). The actual reason is that the moon was the closest to us it will ever be (happens every 30 years or so). As it turns out, the orbit of the moon is not a perfect circle and, on average, it is at a distance of about 385,000 kilometers, but this past Saturday, it was only 356,700 kilometers away.
I’m not perfectly happy with the result of my photos, but i wanted to share them anyways. Through this experiment, i have learned that to take an interesting picture of the moon, you need a very long lense (600mm and up, or 300mm with a converter) in order to make it look extremely large against a cool foreground (a cool example of this from someone else on flickr).
Make sure you check out some of the National Geographic’s shots and some of the shots on flickr too. Very cool!
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As soon as my friend Andrew told me about the total lunar eclipse that was going to happen exactly on the winter’s solstice (Dec. 21st, 2010), I knew I had to stay up for it. This particular eclipse was special for a couple of reasons. Firstly, a lunar eclipse hasn’t fallen on the Winter’s solstice since 1638, and it will not happen again until 2094. Also, the moon happened to be perfectly aligned with the stars of the Milky Way, which gave it (for some) a nice and bright backdrop. The only problem: clouds.
Of course, the city was covered with clouds all day, but I was still hoping to get a clear view of the moon that night. But I was in luck and the sky was perfectly clear that night. In fact, we could actually see the stars over downtown Toronto… a very rare treat!
Évidement, la ville était completement couverte de nuage toute la journée, mais j’esperais quand même avoir une vue claire de la lune. En fait, le ciel était tellement clair cette nuit là que nous pouvions voir les étoiles, même au centre ville de Toronto! C’est tellement rare de voir les étoiles à Toronto!
