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My name is gazraa and I am a deviant.

// April 12th, 2007 // No Comments » // Photography

There, I’ve admitted it. It feels so much better to get it out in the open.

What sort of deviant I hear you shout….. well, it’s actually nothing bad, or sinister, or pervy….. so sorry about that.

I have joined deviantART. If you have never been to the site and you are interested in all things art then you need to come out of your cave and check out the amazing work being done by people on that site. There is everything there; cartoons, manga, photography, digital art, traditional art, poetry plus loads more and there is some truly amazing work. As I type this, there are currently 34,387,868 pieces of art, or deviations, on the site, and the number is increasing every second. In fact, in the time it’s taken me to type this sentence, another 60 deviations have been uploaded. What other site can boast that amount of user contributions.

As I use Flickr to share my photography, I’m going to try and keep my deviantART account for just my good stuff. Work I’d use for a portfolio. That way I can try and move towards a more commercial (as in selling prints etc) slant to my photography at deviantART while still experimenting and sharing using Flickr.

The only downside to this is that it’s another site that I’ll be spending hours on just browsing through other people’s work for inspiration and enjoyment.

By the way, there’s now 34,388,269 deviations!

The Lunar Eclipse

// March 4th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Photography

Last night, 3rd March 2007, a lunar eclipse was visible thanks to nice clear skies in the South of England where I am staying for a couple of weeks. It’s the first eclipse I’ve really watched, not that there is a lot of action, but it’s a sight you don’t get to see very often.

Anyway, I took a series of photos and created a sequence showing the eclipse. I didn’t do it very scientifically so the shots are a little inconsistent but it didn’t turn out too bad. Click on the image to see a larger version on my Flickr account.

The lunar eclipse is caused by the shadow of the earth covering the moon. The red colour that you can see during the time when the moon is fully eclipsed is caused by sunlight passing through volcanic dust in the earth’s atmosphere. The more dust there is, the redder it will be. With fairly recent volcanic activity of the last decade, the amount of dust was sufficient to make the moon quite red, although I couldn’t capture it with my camera very well.

You can find out more about lunar eclipses on NASA’s Lunar Eclipse page.