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As long as I’ve loved photography, I’ve loved astronomy.  Right now some of the best astrophotography is being taken right on Mars itself by the Curiosity Rover. Not only that, hi-res images are actually available for you to download and play with! I “Like” NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover page on Facebook and saw the image […]

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  Love is in the air. It is June after all….the most popular time of the year to get married. This South African couple, Sune & Hannes, will soon wed in their hometown of Cape Town. Here they steal a kiss in a wine cellar of a small winery in Stellenbosch, a beautiful hilly region […]

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“…eighteen, nineteen, and twenty! Ready or not, here we come!!” Oops. Looks like the giraffe forgot to hide. No, this father and his 7 year old daughter weren’t reeeeally playing hide and go seek with a giraffe. They were on a walking safari at Inverdoorn Game Reserve in the Karoo Desert of South Africa.

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Say what?!  Snow, in MAY?? An unprecedented snowfall blanketed my home town of Rochester, Minnesota yesterday–15 inches! And it didn’t stop there. According to my Dad and brother-in-law, who were up by 5am snow plowing out the parking lots of their respective businesses, the snow continued throughout the day and piled up to an incredible […]

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It’s time! April 30 marks the end of winter, and Prague’s annual Paleni Carodenjnic celebration commonly known as Witches’ Night. Locals dress up in costumes like our Halloween, and parade down the street burning paper witches. The Astronomical Clock, in the picture above, is an iconic sight in Prague’s Old Town. Visible to all who […]

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