Waxing moon through firework smoke

Posted on January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2023, automatic, Bad photos, Fireworks, manual, Moon, New year, Photo, waxing moon2 Comments

The moon is three quarters full and was setting behind a tree as midnight struck to end 2022. I tried to take a few photos but my automatic filter makes the moon too bright and is very overexposed. You cannot see its shape. So I tried using manual settings, with that I could get a little bit more definition, but it’s far too grainy. However you can see its not full. There was a mist or firework smoke drifting across the sky. More fireworks had gone off in a few minutes than we saw over the whole of November 5th. The cats were very scared. But it’s calmed down now.

Happy New year to you all.

He bought me… The Moon

Posted on December 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gift, Hubby, kind, Light, Moon, Moonlight, nightlight, Present, Sleeping, thoughtfulLeave a comment

My hubby bought me the Moon yesterday. He knows I love astronomy. It’s a light that is domed so it looks like one side of the moon. It has a remote control and goes through phases as you press one of the buttons or scrolls through them if you press the other button, slowly waxing and waning as you watch it. It’s not astronomically accurate, just a rough surface with vague craters and marès painted on it. It’s only a nightlight, I put it in the bedroom and tried to read by it but it’s just too dim. But good for getting up in the middle of the night because it’s not too bright so it won’t wake my hubby up. X

Digital earth and moon

Posted on December 2, 2022December 2, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue and white, Collaboration, Digital drawing, digital tablet, Draw, Earth, Moon, Sketchfu, Sketching, Sky, SpaceLeave a comment

This was an old drawing I did online a few years ago. It was at the website called Sketchfu (closed about five years ago). I’ve always loved astronomy and this was a good challenge to try and get a reasonably accurate drawing using very simple tools. The hardest thing was getting the image blurred enough to feel realistic. Colours were chosen from a couple of hundred choices. There were only five sized circular pens and a slider to alter the opacity. Plus an eraser to clear away mistakes. You could add layers so you could show your progress, or do a collaboration with other artists, the only real problem was the images took ages to load.

Partial Eclipse

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 25th October 2021, blinding, Eclipse, Europe, Leaves, Moon, partial eclipse, Sunlight, TimeLeave a comment

There is a partial eclipse across Europe tomorrow. 25.10.2022. Don’t look up at the sun unless you have proper eclipse glasses. It can burn your retinas and blind you because of ultra violet radiation. But one thing you can do is look at the ground, either in a puddle and yo may see a reflection, or if you stand under a tree that’s in leaf you may see images projected on the ground that look like crescent moons. These are images of the sun as the moon partly glides across it. The reason for the images? The leave are acting like a pinhole camera.

Nights are drawing in

Posted on October 12, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Colour, Drawing, Life, Lines, Meditation, Moon, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Drawing for the prompt of ‘nights are drawing in’, I wanted to create a moonrise and I used a previous meditation drawing. I added colour and form, then used a texture app to emphasise the original lines from the drawing, #bandofsketchers.

Moonlight

Posted on October 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Earth, Light, Moon, Poem, Poetry, ShineLeave a comment

Moon bright

Bright orb

Orbiting Earth

Earth shine

Shining strong

Strongly believe

Believe me

My Night

Night bright

Bright moon…

Night

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, crepuscular, Drawing, Felt pens, Moon, Night, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was night. I decided to draw a moon in the sky at night, but because I don’t have any black felt pens that work (dried up), it became a crepuscular moon, emerging from the darkening gloom of early night.

Halved

Posted on September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Death, Earth, Gone, Life, Memories, Missing, Moon, Poem, Poetry, Sadness, Sun, Thoughts, Time, WordsLeave a comment

My sun has gone out

The moon has split in half

My world is darkened

The loss of a relative

Guts your soul

Don’t scream

Don’t cry

Hold it together

For you

For everyone else

But it’s hard to take.

Artemis probe

Posted on August 19, 2022August 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged artemis, lunar, Mars, Moon, moon mission, Nasa, person of colour, rocket, Thinking, WomanLeave a comment

I saw there is an unmanned mission to the moon called Artemis. Its from NASA and its part of a plan to send a team including woman and a person of colour to the moon. Its fifty three years since the first men landed on the Moon.

I looked up Artemis and she was the Greek goddess of hunting, Similar to the roman goddess Diana. I suppose its a good name for it. I wonder when it will happen. I hope it does. I think it’s possible, but I really think it’s unlikely that we will ever go to Mars?

Skyline

Posted on August 14, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, bright sky, Drawing, Felt pens, Life, Moon, perseid meteor shower, Photodirector, SketchingLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was skyline. I’ve been trying to see the perseid meteor shower that is currently happening but the moon has been too bright and has drowned things out with its light. I was hoping to see something because it’s been warm enough to stand outside late at night.. Felt pen drawing filtered in Photodirector.

Mallaband-Brown

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