Istanbul August 2010
Istanbul August 2010
Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video)
Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video) The Orionid Meteor Shower this year was a bit of a dud. I was shooting up at 11,000 feet in the White Mountains and ran my camera for about 4 hours, from 10:40pm Friday until 2:50am, well after the moon came up. To see how a much more active meteor shower looks, here's one of my Perseid Meteor Shower videos from the same location, displayed on the Discover Magazine blog, best viewed full screen: Perseids, Writ Large http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/ I have a number of posts on my blog www.MyPhotoGuides.com * related to night shooting and timelapse videos. Here's one of the more recent ones building on those pasts posts: Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html I'm curious to see how an HD 720P video gets displayed on G+. I have a ton of timelapse footage that I haven't foun...
Egypt has too many Obelisks LOL
ReplyDeletein rome we have more or less 5 of this... some are very very big (the vatican one).... maybe egypt will start asking them some day :-)
ReplyDelete"Have you seen our obelisks? I thought I left it right over there, next to my car keys." After an object has spent time in territory managed by various cultures (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, et cetera), who do you return to? In Hagia Sophia some of the red columns came from Pergamum (Greek and then Roman site in Turkey), prior to that the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) if I remember correctly, but the stone can be traced to a unique quarry in Egypt. Turkey would love to get many artifacts back from Germany, but I don't see them putting stamps on any obelisks to mail them back to Egypt. It's very complicated, there are few easy answers.
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