tingilinde

funny in the eye of the beholder

The Comedy Wildlife Photography finalists 

a tip of the hat to Bjarne

camera testing

Let's say you want to test a huge camera - the exotic 3.2 gigapixel  camera that will go into the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile.  What to use?..  It turns out they used broccoli.

I can't decide if this is a tip of the hat to a movie franchise or Benoit Mandelbrot.

 

wonderful high dynamic range solar eclipse photography

stunning - just stunning!

capture the dark

Winners in this year's International Dark Sky Association contest.

 

 

the girl in red

Remarkable unprocessed color photos from 1913.

 

the sirius dog sled patrol

Bjarne noted one of the most elite patrol groups in the world - a Danish naval unit known as the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol. 

Here's some photography by a member.

 

 

an excellent piece on image stabilization in cameras

Remarkable engineering!  Be sure and watch the video. 

a tip of the hat to Bjarne

 

the first solar eclipse photo

Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski took the first successful photograph of a total solar eclipse on July 28, 1851.  A 6cm refractor was attached to a 15.8cm heliometer for the 84 second exposure.

 

astrophotos of the year for 2020

The candidates.

 

 

 

location, location, location

It's only a four megapixel camera, but it's a million miles from Earth and always watching.  Here the Moon passes between it and the Earth .. you see the Moon's far side.

an amazing sequence.