Pictures at an exhibition

[shewhomust]

The Starry Night

I knew that it is possible to photograph the Milky Way. of course, and I've seen some very impressive results from people doing it. I had somehow failed to realise that it is a Thing. But yes, there are whole societies dedicated just to photographing the Molky Way, and here is the announcement of Milky Way Photographer of the Year. There are some wonderful pictures here. though they don't necessarily benefit from being seen en masse: the family resemblance becomes overwhelming.

Sunflowers

The holiday plan we abandoned when lockdown happened would have taken us to the south of France - not the southwest, which we know well, but Provence... I still haven't quite given up hope of acheiving it, so I need to file these fascinating developmemts in Arles for future reference.

But what to make of the claim that previously "The town was gently asleep. People only came here for the old Roman city"? Well, that gave me the excuse to link these two things into a post...