A sunset picture
Center of the Milky Way
The first image is of Sagittarius, slightly cropped to put the center of the Milky Way galaxy at dead center in the photo. If you work at it, you can make out the teapot of Sagittarius. This was a thirty-second exposure; note the airplane entering from the left.
The second image is a tighter crop showing the airplane track, with the two wingtip lights flashing every couple of seconds.
A thirty second exposure is long enough for star trails to just begin to show, which is why all the stars look like parallel peanuts.
Hilo Airport
Really not sure how to classify this one. People standing in a large paved area at the airport in Hilo, Hawaii.
View from the outside…
Originally shared by All Things Chinese
Potato in Hot Toffee – this newly invented Chinese dish has gained a sudden popularity among gourmet lovers in China, all because it looks so much like the head of a VIP currently purchasing on top the food chain on our planet 😋
Stains on concrete
Dr Strange confronting eldrich horrors…
I also fear for this madly-spinning planet…
Bugs, by Sawanya Prittipongpunt
Two beautiful photos taken by Sawanya Prittipongpunt. According to the embedded EXIF data, these photos were taken with a Samsung Galaxy S7…
Originally shared by Sawanya Prittipongpunt
สดใส🕷น่ารัก😁ศุกร์แล้วสุขสบายใจ..Happy Friday&Weekend🤗
Kodachrome slide from 40 years ago
Here’s the full size image from the Kodachrome slide — hiking in the Sierras maybe 40 years ago.
Close crops
Very close crop of a scanned old Kodachrome slide vs a similar size crop of a recent digital photo. I can afford better lenses now, so the digital photo is intrinsically much sharper. But independent of that, I like the effect of the grain in the slide.
Another old slide
My daughter has been singing praises of film photography, so I’ve been going through boxes of old slides and negatives and scanning them. This is a slide taken long ago from atop Mt Diablo.