An often forgotten theme in photography is textures. Textures are all around us, even if we don’t pay attention to them. I have often been asked why I was photographing a wall, head on.
Well, that wall happened to have some very interesting texture. I am no longer doing 3D modelling, so I am not using these textures anymore to dress up some complex object, but
By now we all understand that the sun is approaching its solar maximum of this 11 year cycle. We also know that this goes with more and more interesting Aurorae. Auroras, for those who want to keep it in English.
But does that mean that we now get to see these Northern Lights every evening? Nope, most of the time they remain as elusive as the Yeti. So, waiting is the Maître Mot…
Monotony is the bane of creativity. You simply cannot create anything new if nothing changes in your environment. Everybody knows that and seemingly this applies to everyone.
Some people don’t need variation to be creative, they can continue to write, work or create for years on end without anything changing in their lives. Or at least that’s what they think. Let’s
When it is winter, walks outside are mostly very refreshing, at least here in Winnipeg. Lately, however, winter seems to have left. Even the Canadian Geese are already back.
It seems we saw them out only a few weeks ago. In reality, that was late October. The winter has been soft, this year. Leaving us with
On March, 7th 2012, medium –sized Coronal Mass Ejection occurred on the Sun. Followed by a second one. Usually this is great news for photographers in the north of the world.
But two CMEs can seriously interact with each other and even cancel themselves out, leaving nothing for the photographers but icy cold nights. Satellites fare way better in this case.