It's a marvelous night for a moondance
2012.02.28
Intrigued by the footage of the planets' movements on NBC Nightly News (but knowing about it beforehand), I decided to record this Moon-Venus-Jupiter proximity for myself. I set up the camera on a tripod and took photos every minute between 8 and 9 p.m., and then I put it all into a .gif file for easy consumption.
From top: The Moon, Jupiter and Venus travel northwest toward the horizon. GIF of 61 images taken a minute apart over one hour. Bonus: my dad's hand appears on the left at 8:23 as he points to the International Space Station, which made a two-minute transit north of the moondance.
Ash Wednesday, brought to you (literally) by Christ Church Cathedral
2012.02.22
The downtown cathedral provided ashes for people too busy for a full service.
The Revs. Jean Denton (back) and Andy Shamel (foreground) trace crosses with ashes on people's foreheads during Ashes on the Go on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, outside Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis. The Rev. Denton, from St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 62nd and Meridian streets, and The Rev. Shamel, from CCC, were part of the third shift of ministers (with The Rev. Grace Burton Edwards of Trinity Episcopal Church, below) offering ashes to passersby on Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Christian season of Lent.
Dumpster diving through the archives: motion blur
2012.02.15
Capturing the blur of the preceding milliseconds helps tell the story in more dimensions.
(130mm, f/2.8, 1/160s) The Cutters' Eric Young crosses the finish line during a victory lap after winning the Little 500 bicycle race Apr. 25, 2009, at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. The Cutters won the event for the third year in a row, overcoming a crash and a late penalty. (Alex Farris | Arbutus)