While driving tonight around sunset we were treated to yet another amazing sky where the clouds were lit with oranges and yellows and the vineyards glowed red in the sunset drenched Barossa Valley landscape. With no opportunity to stop we simply enjoyed the show as we headed on to our destination. Later that evening I […]
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In the early evening sky tonight, while the sky was still blue and devoid of stars, a waning crescent moon sank towards the western horizon. I was not even sure I could set up the camera due to a recent injury I am recovering from but with a little perseverance and not too much pain […]
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby (on cosmological terms) galaxy clearly visible as a small cloud to the naked eye in the southern night sky. As a neighboring galaxy in our local group it is considered a suburb of our own Milky Way galaxy. At around 163,000 light year away it is humbling […]
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Last night I joined local Adelaide photographer Andrew Barre and 34 others for a photowalk around Adelaide as part of the annual Kelby PhotoWalk event. In its eighth year now, and with more than 21,000 photographers world wide participating in yesterday’s event, the Kelby PhotoWalk is testament to the growing popularity and social nature of […]
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For all of Winter I have missed Orion in the night sky and until Summer the hunter will remain out of sight for all but the most dedicated night owls. This is image of the hunter is quite special for me and realises, albeit only just, a goal I have had all my life. Gazing […]
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