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Astro Bob: Photo tips for Tuesday’s Lunar Eclipse – Duluth News Tribune
I’ve been anxiously looking at satellite photos and checking cloud forecasts hoping for clear skies for the November 8 eclipse. You too? I frequently go to Clear Sky Chart and look for blue squares (indicating clear skies) during eclipse time,which occurs between about 3 a.m. and 6:45 a.m. CST. If the boxes are white for my location I hunt for the nearest place with “bluer” skies. A total eclipse is a big enough deal I’ll happily drive an hour or more to see one. One of favorite forecasting sites is Clear Sky Chart which displays the hour-by-hour percentage of clear sky in little blue blocks. White is overcast, while deep…
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Mangrove forests: Crocodile close-up in Cuba wins photo awards
Tanya Houppermans has been named overall winner of this year’s Mangrove Photography Awards, for her close-up portrait of an American crocodile surrounded by mangroves at Gardens of the Queen in Cuba. Image source, Tanya Houppermans Run by the Mangrove Action Project, the competition – now in its eighth year – aims to show the relationships between wildlife, coastal communities and mangrove forests, as well as the fragility of these unique ecosystems, both above and below the waterline. Gardens of the Queen is an archipelago off the coast of Cuba and has been strictly protected since 1996. It is one of the most untouched marine ecosystems in the world. “The healthy…
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The finalists of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards
A fake smile from a lioness, a raccoon waving to the camera and a galloping farting zebra are among the 40 images shortlisted for this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photo awards. Narrowed down from thousands of entries submitted by professional and amateur photographers from around the world, the competition aims to celebrate the hilarity of our natural wildlife. Co-founded in 2015 by professional photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, the competition aims to focus “on the lighter, humorous side of wildlife photography but also [with] an important role in promoting wildlife conservation at its heart”. “With so much going on in the world, we could all use a bumper dose of fun and laughter and this year’s finalists have definitely…
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Stunning aerial image wins The Nature Conservancy 2022 Photo Contest
World-wide environmental firm, The Mother nature Conservancy, has unveiled the mesmerizing visuals from its most current 2022 picture contest. The significant relevance of conservation has been highlighted by way of these top chosen photos, which stand as a stark reminder of the imminent local weather alter potential risks that we experience. This year’s competitiveness boasted the largest range of individuals at any time, with a lot more than 100,000 entries obtained from 196 unique nations around the world. There were six different types for photographers to enter, with two new categories for this version. • Acquire a glance at the finest cameras for wildlife pictures (opens in new tab). Judges for this…
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UCR ARTS: Christina Fernandez’s photo exhibition captures life
For photographer Christina Fernandez, absolutely nothing is common. An deserted couch on a grassy knoll, individuals washing outfits at general public laundromats in the middle of the night, or seemingly deserted properties in downtown Los Angeles, can all show up mundane. But a closer seem by her camera’s lens uncovers a entire world comprehensive of lifetime. Fernandez’s photographs capture narratives surrounding the working day-to-day of Latinos in east Los Angeles neighborhoods. These images are now on screen at UC Riverside’s California Museum of Photography, portion of UCR ARTS in downtown Riverside. To rejoice the touring exhibition “Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,” the museum will host a general public reception on Saturday,…
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Wolfgang Tillmans’s ’90s photo tour is a blast. But is it great art?
Sweat matted our armpit hair. At housewarming parties, we wrecked the kitchens. The fruit in all those exact same kitchens seemed numinous in the morning mild. So did the socks draped in excess of heaters at night time. We went to raves, protests and homosexual delight parades, viewed wars on Television set. We fell in adore with Kate Moss and R.E.M. and Jeffrey Eugenides’s “The Virgin Suicides” and with the way Sinéad O’Connor bent her voice just beneath the notes in her cover of a Prince track. Men and women we understood, and some we observed from afar, seemed dazed and inexplicably tender from selected angles, in sure lights. I…