End of holidays.

The next few months I will be very busy @ work. So, using the programming feature of Blogger I posted a few months of photos in advance. This blog will thus continue, even if this humble blogger is struck by lightning, unless meanwhile the world (or Blogger) ends.

For the moment I resisted the temptation of writing a post to our fellows of the next millenium.

(Porto, Portugal)

New Song

(Related: Beauty and Atrocity in Glen Coe)

New Song

Around the volcano

Around the Caldeira at Faial Island, Azores.
With the volcano's caldera on one side (photos above) and sea, volcanos and islands on the other (below), it is a perfect and easy hike at ~1000m altitude.

"The Blue Island", they call it, due to the flowers ("hortensias").

Series of volcanic cones. The last one, partly seen on the right, is from the 1957-58 eruptions (Vulcão dos Capelinhos) and formed new land.

Warning

This blog is hitting puberty (whatever that means).

(Ilha do Pico, Azores, Portugal)

Festival do Minuto 2015

I sent two one-minute songs to the "Festival do Minuto 2015", where all songs have one minute (+- 5 secs). It was a nice challenge and the exercize of listening to a serendipitous set of diverse musical findings (35 songs!) is very interesting...

Seagull of Nazareth

(Nazaré, Portugal)

Porto Flyby

Probe transmitting data.

Porto Flyby

"[...] les parties sombres montrent une traînée grise sur la glace. Il semble que, dans ces régions, des matériaux souterrains remontent à la surface de Pluton !"

Porto Flyby (Today)

Larger

Other worlds.

The internet of living things

Better seen at dawn, on a summer sunny day, after the mist.

Spooky

Today at lunch hour, just as New Horizons was reaching its closest distance to Pluto, I felt Charon's presence in the elevator of the mall. I knew it: they are watching us just as we are watching them.

Birds.

OK... Where was I, before this Pluto thing?

Oh yes I was showing you some photos of birds.

More 'newbie' images of Pluto and Charon. Each row spans one rotation period of Pluto
(oldest: bottom left; newest: top right).

Pluto:

Charon:

Yesterday.

A week ago and yesterday.

Seeing the invisible

Seeing the invisible seems paradoxal. Yet it can be so simple...
Below, not only we can 'see' the transparent water, but also we can map its depth and find 'invisible' floating sand using the shadows. Or we can estimate the position of the sun relative to the observer (both invisible in the photo), infer the hour of the day, or...
A good model can do wonders, a bad model can lead to disaster.