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Turning a landfill into a beautiful garden
Posted by: on May 18, 2008 in Tags: Personal, photo, Sustainable development
Last weekend I visited a very nice garden in the Vosges, Les Jardins de Callunes [Fr]. It has the particularity to have been created where a landfill was previously.
It is impressive how Nature got back where previously stood waste of all kinds. Will we be able to turn all our landfills in such wonderful gardens?
This was also the opportunity for me to practice photography and I propose you a selection of the best pictures I took there. Continue reading »
I haven’t posted anything on astrophotography since my article on the avalanches on Mars. And these pictures weren’t that beautiful or anything else but scientific material.
So, as the NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day comprised last weeks some very beautiful pictures, I propose you here my favorites of the past few weeks.
I hope you will enjoy this article. If so - please let me know by comments - I will propose you each month my selection of the best APOD photos. Continue reading »
For my second article for the blog of my friend Sherlock, I decided to write about three great photographs of the Earth seen from space.
They enable us to see how our beautiful planet is tiny compared to the immensity of space and thus very fragile. This of course is a good drive to protect it.
This combines my interests in both photography and environment, and it fulfills quite well the objectives of my articles there. Continue reading »
David Bowie once sung that there is Life on Mars, but scientifically this has to be proved. However, there are already avalanches of carbon dioxide ice.
The picture on the left was taken last month by a NASA mission. It shows clearly that such a phenomenon occurs in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet.
This happens as I am reading Red Mars, an excellent sci-fi book. To learn out more on both the avalanches and my reading, I invite you to Continue reading »
The fairy of Eagle Nebula and star trails at dawn
Posted by: on December 13, 2007 in Tags: Astronomy, photo
My daily browsing includes having a look at the Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD). Sunday’s one is as often with NASA’s images, absolutely fabulous.
I really appreciate this photo because of the strong contrast between the left and right parts of the image, the black colliding with the white, the dark red versus the light blue…
The Eagle is quite visible on the far left side of the image. In the second part of the post, I propose you a second mesmerizing image.
First article I wrote for Focus on Sherlock
Posted by: on December 9, 2007 in Tags: photo, Sustainable development
Reading some of my articles elsewhere is now possible as my good friend Sherlock kindly asked me to write on ecology and sustainable development for his blog.
Sherlock is a photography enthusiast and his pictures are just mesmerizing. The latest version of his blog, Focus on Sherlock puts more emphasis on his works.
My first article there is about batteries as those little things are everywhere from our mobile phones to our cameras and as they are responsible of an important pollution
This month’s astronomy article is on yesterday’s APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) by the NASA. It features one of the most famous constellations, Cygnus.
The star on the top of the image is Deneb, the brightest of this area and one of the three that constitutes the Summer Triangle.
The full image is as often with APOD, a marvellous one. Please note that the Pelican Nebula I talked about two months ago is a part of this region of the sky.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day by the NASA is my daily meeting with the sky, its billions stars, galaxies and other nebulae. Most of the time, the images are just great.
Today’s photo features the Tarantula Nebula and is really jaw-breaking. It was taken by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), located in Chile.
You will find in the article the explanation given by the NASA as well as some additional information on ESO.
As an astronomy enthusiast, I have a daily look since May at the APOD, the astronomy picture of the day from the NASA.
On July 2nd, this page proposed a 30-second amazing and stunning video based on various photos of the Pelican Nebula, also referred to as IC 5070 by the specialists.
If you are interested in astronomy, or you just like beautiful images, you will greatly appreciate this zooming picture.
The book I will talk about this month was in my shopping list for some time and tackles astronomy in a very interesting way. I was mesmerized by the photos proposed.
