CREATIVE ARTS NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND
CREATIVE ARTS NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND
Time for all to have a Happy New Creative Arts Weekend. Post something creative - a creative photo, painting, sculpture, one of your kids (well, you helped create them, didn't you?), a creative comment or even a creative vote up.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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Randomly chosen from the library of photos I have taken....
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Neat stuff, Buzz. I really like the second one with the stone stairs.
Thanks, the wooden arch made a perfect wooden frame for the photo.
Untitled (© G. Gam)
Po Nagar (© G. Gam)
Untitled - Japan (© G. Gam)
You've developed brilliance in both concept and technique besides composition, and if you don't start winning awards the judges are idiots.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. I just submitted some pieces to a new Lensculture contest the other day, but I'm not expecting anything to come of it. I didn't submit these three.
Good luck with that - please let me know the results. I wasn't thinking of just these three, I was thnking of all that you've been posting these days. I'm beginning to think that you could produce a great coffee table book one day.
We'll see...
Nice, G. What did you use for the globe/ball-looking object in the first one?
Thanks, Dig. I did that using PowerPoint, creating a circle and selecting colors for a gradient effect.
Tonight's full moon, the first of 2026.
I was wondering about the bright star next to it, so I looked it up on Stellarium (a free astronomy program) and it turned out to be Jupiter. Here's a screenshot from Stellarium:
Here's a zoom of the moon.
Crater detail on the edge. Not super sharp, but not bad for a hand-held camera.
I zoomed in on Jupiter and got a surprise – Jovian moons! At first I thought they were camera artifacts (lens flares or something), but I took several shots with the camera in slightly different positions and they stayed in the exact same place, so I figured they were real.
I checked Stellarium to be sure, and yup, they were real. It even listed their names. Top to bottom – Io, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. Here's another Stellarium screenshot:
And to wrap things up (or unwrap?), here's one of Gracie from Christmas morning.
Happy New Year.
Back more than half a century ago in Toronto I had a Tasco (Amateur) telescope and the most exciting thing I recall seeing was the rings around Saturn.
Looks like Gracie is an unwrapped Christmas gift.
I think I tried Saturn with that same camera a few years ago, but I couldn't get the rings.
Gracie enjoyed the loose wrapping paper more than the new toys she got, lol.
That particular night there were 4 planets in conjuction with the full moon - Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and either Venus or Uranus.
I think a similar conjunction was occurring when I tried.
Awesome.
When I was a kid I was somewhat of a Scince nerd. At the time I learned a fair amount of Astronomy and IIRC Saturn and Jupitar had the most moons---Saturn had maybe 9, Jupiter maybe 12 (?).
Well I just googled it-- Japiter now has 95 recognized moons!
Jupiter has 95 moons that have been officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
But the number doesn't capture the complexity of the Jovian system of moons, rings and asteroids. The giant planet has thousands of small objects in its orbit. Scientists are getting so good at spotting tiny moons orbiting distant, giant planets that the International Astronomical Union has decided the smallest will no longer be given mythological names unless they are of “significant” scientific interest.
But there are only a few larger moons....
So do we, manmade ones.
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The Creative Arts Weekend is now over. Thanks to those who had enough interest to post something such as an image, a comment, a vote up.