Notices by Trilobyter (trilobyter@mastodon.world), page 3

Nature’s cathedral.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #trees #redwoods #humboldt #California

Winter’s first full #moon.

December’s full moon is called the Cold Moon. With my bad leg I haven’t been able to get out and about with my big camera lately, but this view presented itself through my bedroom window earlier this week. Shot multiple images with a 600mm telephoto, handheld, while sitting in my recliner, and then created a focus stack composite.

#photography #lunar #fullmoon #winter #night #nightphotography

December #sunset sky.

#SilentSunday #photography

In the redwoods.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #trees #Humboldt #California

A Gulf Fritillary #butterfly (Dione vanillae) enjoying our front garden zinnias yesterday - the last day of warm temperatures for a while, a cold front came in around sunset and we’ve dropped 40 degs F since then, woke up to cloudy, rainy weather with temps in the mid-40s (~7 C). Feels more like proper Halloween-ish weather so I don’t mind, especially after the blazing hot summer we had here.

#PhotoMonday #butterflies #Insects #InsectPhotography #flowers

Autumn color in the Gorges du Verdon, southern #France.

#TravelThursday #photography #LandscapePhotography #Europe

Mood

#Caturday #cats #photography

Spanish Synagogue, #Prague

#FensterFreitag #photography #TravelPhotography #Czechia

#introduction updated - I guess I’m no longer a newcomer. I became active here after abandoning the bird place - a very positive change.
I’m a software engineer on the #Orion / #Artemis program so I follow #space & #science topics. Also of interest #photography / #travel / #nature / #environment / #art / #geology / #gardening / #politics.

All photos I post - other than boosts of others’ work - are my own © 2023 Milian Kurten.

These are from a Nov 2022 trip to Big Bend National Park, #Texas.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite I mean, I guess I should have passed up a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness an amazing celestial event in person and instead just stayed home and scrolled the photos that “everyone else on earth” was taking of the event, with an occasional break to shame-post strangers, but I guess it’s just an insurmountable character flaw of mine that I selfishly and unthinkingly went out and did a terrible thing to the planet. Someone should stop me before I do it again.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite well I drove an electric car and I live in a state that gets 40% of its electric power from non-fossil sources, does that help? And should I care what an uninformed, judgy person thinks?

@kentborg yes, artistic license in assembling a composite image to show the eclipse progression.

@kentborg fully described in the Alt Text btw…

Yesterday’s annular eclipse as viewed from a city park on the outskirts of Hondo, #Texas. There was a broad layer of high clouds when we arrived but luckily they broke up & blew away just in time for the main event. Had to get up in the wee hours and drive 225 miles (362 km) west to get right in the center of the path but it was well worth it.

#Eclipse #Eclipse2023 #EclipseSolar #Sun #Moon #photography #astrophotography

#Autumn color on the Danube. Sarmingstein, #Austria.

#TravelThursday #ThrowbackThursday #photography #FallColor #autumnvibes #Europe

This was a new one for me, flitted through the zinnia jungle in the front garden the other day, it’s a Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor).

#butterfly #Insects #garden #photography #nature

Forest light.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #photography #forest #nature #redwoods

@steriana here he be (his website at least) https://www.sfxmodels.com/

54 years ago today, the effort of thousands resulted in sending humans to orbit and land on the #moon. My dad was one of them, he worked on the guidance system of the Lunar Module. He received this desk model then, and it was passed on to me after he passed. It was in bad shape, my siblings & I did much damage to it when kids, but a couple of years ago I sent it off to a person that specializes in Lunar Module model restorations & he did a great job.

#Apollo11 #LunarLanding #MoonLanding #NASA

The Nocera gate on the eastern side of #Pompeii and Vesuvius looming beyond.

#RomanSiteSaturday #RomanRuins #photography #travel #TravelPhotography #Italy #volcano