So how to kick this off with a bang?
Do you have that pictured? Well most likely, here is the opposite.
Content here and on the gallery will be evolving for a while. I don’t have that many completed pictures to post on the gallery, and I am launching with… one. I intend to take my time and reprocess several of the images armed with improved processing skills gained before the holidays.
Going forward, I hope to use this blog to provide additional information about the objects I photograph, and to also share some of the supporting projects, trips, and other behind the scenes happenings that result, in my case, in precious few pictures. I might occasionally drool over new gear or offer an opinion about gear I have tried… although I don’t expect that many will care about that opinion. I have been dutifully logging these activities in a journal over the last year, so it seems like it should be easy to keep the same information here. And, harder to lose.
The other portion of my adventure is learning about both blogging software and photo gallery software. In my case these are Word Press and Zen Photo. I am starting things off with precious few features enabled, but more may be coming.
So, I truly hope that with this initial, dry post, I have set the bar of expectations so low that I have nowhere to go but up!
So with that out of the way, here is something pretty cool. This animation was created from actual still photos sent back from the Cassini spacecraft as it was surveying Saturn.
5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.
For those who know about APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), this was it for March 15, 2011. I expect that we may talk about APOD in future posts.