Science content: A photograph of today’s penumbral lunar eclipse. Once again twitter helped me to get informed about that event. I saw a tweet about a lunar eclipse possibly visible from southern Germany, had a look up in the sky and saw an already started eclipse. I grabbed my gear, went out and took some photographs. Could be a new record for me: Taking notice till readily developed raw file in within 25 minutes.
Had paid time off last week. Plenty of time to work on some older photos which are still unedited. This is what my work space looked like.
And here it is. The ship in all its glory!
Upon arrival in L.A. the first stop was the California Science Center near Downtown to visit the new home of the Space Shuttle Endeavour which opened the week before. For this day all tickets were sold out and I bought tickets for the other Saturday which was originally planned for this and some other sightseeing. This and the photos before were taken there.
Interesting side note: My kindergarten’s name was “Kosmonaut”. 1986 we celebrated the launch of the Mir spacestation as well as the maiden flight of the Buran Orbiter in 1988. Never thought at that time, the first spacecraft I came that close would be a Space Shuttle.
And I’m glad it is the ship which carried a digital picture of my daughter during STS-134 as part of NASA’s Face to Space.
I mentioned in the last post, there was this Korean A380 departing right over my head. As you know, this is kind of a photoblog and mostly I carry a camera with me: for sure I have captured this scene as well. Moving slowly over the beach, like pinned in the air.
It’s done! After a few weeks of construction work in the background I managed it to release the new photoblog these days. Apparently I currently have a weakness for plain design and lighter colours. Also I really like fonts with serifs, especially when all those new devices and computers get these awesome high resolution displays it looks great even on a display. That’s the short and simple explanation why this site looks like it appears right now.
I also appreciate the possibility to add more and better readable text to images. This allows to explain a bit more or to tell a story behind. A neat thing is that more than only one entry will be displayed on one page. If it annoys you to dive deeper into a website only by clicking from one content to another (like me) you would be happy to read that this issue is fixed now. Hopefully I will be more focussed on categories in the future and add tags to each post. This allows easy browsing through specific content.
Another reason to spend hours on the re-design was the tremendous amount of spam comments I got every day. I think WordPress is better prepared in order to get rid of this problem. Another rad thing connected with this change is, that the site is fully scalable. This means you can browse through the site quite comfortable on your computer, your tablet and your smartphone.
So I hope you will enjoy staying on this blog and crawling through the images – or hopefully drop by once in a while.
Quite old stuff today… used to be a filler
But there is nothing new yet. So I can not await the spring.