A personal supplement to the MPS / UniGoe IAG Night of Astronomy. This website used to do non-photo journal posts …

A personal supplement to the MPS / UniGoe IAG Night of Astronomy. This website used to do non-photo journal posts …

Giant, otherworldly balls scattered along north Otago’s Moeraki Beach, the Boulders look as though they were handcrafted and placed by design. These massive concretions are a geological marvel. Formed originally within ancient sea-floor mud through the slow, steady crystallisation of calcite over millions of years.
(An express section of the NZ 2026 Photo Journal)
A note on these: the images are mine and sit outside this site’s CC-BY-NC terms.
What’s here is capped at 3 MP, which is plenty for a screen and no use at all on a wall. If you’d like a print, or a licence to hang one, say hello.
(more…)I’ve passed FRA quite a few times now but until this trip my 300mm lens was always in the checked baggage.
(more…)… of various levels of sophistication. Thanks to other tourists on the evenings of 5 and 6 June 2026 for letting me stay longer than average on the axis of symmetry.


Photographie © 2026 FWPhys · LUX. Partagée à des fins non commerciales. Les illuminations nocturnes de la Tour Eiffel sont une œuvre protégée (© SETE).
Photograph © 2026 FWPhys · LUX. Shared for non-commercial purposes. The Eiffel Tower’s nighttime illuminations are a protected work (© SETE).










These are technically rule-compliant HDR JPEG images with a gain map generated by Pixelmator. They might render poorly on some screens though.
Bye winter and hello my second European Spring.
(more…)Never one to push the agenda that a 2021 premium phone (with self-replaced new batteries and new water seals) is any less capable less than 5 years later, I am not calling this an equipment downgrade. It’s a simpler way to live, with a mini phone cut back to the basics.
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