Set Up Like A Deck Of Cards

If you took a picture of the sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. The sun’s apparent shift is caused by the Earth’s motion around the sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth’s rotation axis. The sun will appear at its highest point of the analemma during summer and at its lowest during winter. Analemmas created from different Earth latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day. The analemma pictured here was built up by sun photographs taken from August 1998 through August 1999 from Ukraine.

(Via riotrepublic)

I just broke the 10,000 song barrier in my iTunes library.

The lucky album was Cave In’s Jupiter.

Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

“One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.” (Via BBC News).

Look at these guys - ready to attack a plane with their spears! And why are two of them painted red and one of them painted black? And a hundred uncontacted tribes? And so many other questions. I guess the world is still a pretty big place. More photos here.

I took this a couple of weeks ago, after it had rained for the first time in a while.  I noticed that there were drops of water falling from the roof of a shed onto an old brick on the ground and realised that the hole you can see in the brick had been made by the same drops over the last few years.

Nothing special, I know.  Basic physics and geology and it’s probably not on the same level as, say, the Grand Canyon but for whatever reason, I liked it.

I spent about ten minutes trying to capture a splash and this was the best I got.

(via macuyiko)

Look at this twig!  It must have snapped off from higher up, probably when a bird tried to land on it, fell down, and somehow managed to hook itself on another branch before it hit the ground.  That’s pretty impressive, even for a twig.