Swirl of Color

This was a small piece of a larger installed art work at a pre-school just being completed by our office. We toured the school as they were finishing up construction and preparing for the staff and students to move in over the next couple of weeks. The swirl is made with a series of LED lights behind some sort of translucent stone and this was taken with the Macro setting up close to the stone.

Da MOON 2...

Well, it has been some time since I posted so here are a couple of new posts. This is another photo of the Moon taken through the eyepiece of a telescope. It is amazing how much detail can be seen on the surface of the moon. This was with a different telescope than the last photo so the field of view is not quite as large so I am cutting part of the Moon off at the bottom of this image (too bad). I also used a tripod when taking this image so the clarity seems to be much better than the first one which was hand held.

As promised the trip-tick...

This is the three part work (trip-tick) called Black and White 1, Black and White 2, and Black and White 3. All are ink on sketch paper and the original size of each is 8"x8", I started the 1st one knowing that it would be part of a series, so over about 2 weeks I completed the three then did the one posted earlier. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with how they came out.

Another Santa Fe Sketch...

This is another sketch I did at the New Mexico State Forestry Headquarters in Santa Fe. I wanted to highlight some of the fall colors so I decided to draw with Ink and then add watercolor pencil just to the leaves that were changing. As I have stated before I really enjoy sketching and I just wish I had more time to do it, it seems that at times there is just way too much to do and I do not have enough time to do everything I want to do. Where does all the time go and why do I always seem to run out of it...

Not one of mine but wow!!!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081206.html

A friend of mine, Becky, suggested that if I had not seen this Astronomy Picture of the Day that I go back to the archives and look at it and I am glad I remembered because wow. While this is not something I did I still wanted to share it with everyone because it is fairly spectacular. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

And Another Shot...

And, another image of the crescent Moon, Jupiter and Venus taken a bout 45 minutes after the previous shots. Still amazing...

Terrific Trio...

What a Terrific Trio... What an amazing place this solar system is (I guess the galaxy and the universe is pretty cool too.) A wonderful view of the crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter, I noticed them last night when they were a little farther apart and was looking foreword to this evening when they would be a little closer together. This was an image taken from the parking lot at the Hotel Albuquerque, the pink from the sunset was just barely around but still very cool. Way to go stellar buddies, good show!