Misadventures at 720nm

Zach Galifianakis

Yeah, anyways. New glasses.

Still playing catchup. :)

I don’t make any excuse for being utterly humbled by some of the amazing work put out by the CICLOPS team using the Cassini space probe currently whirling its way around Saturn. The team have a particular eye for capturing artful arrangements of the gas giant’s many moons. In the last two weeks, however, images of the alignment of Enceladus' famed geysers with Titan and the planet’s rings have caused quite a stir. The two raw files in question are N00154028 and N00154034:

N00154028

N00154034

Spectacular photographs by themselves, the real wonder shines out when you combine them:

I eagerly await a finish, processed version of this scene, but in the meanwhile I have taken them and made use of Photoshop’s gradient tool:

They are coming in one or another form. I have something very different planned.

Well, only four minutes late in going up.

Huge thanks to one young Ms. Lernihan who stood transfixed by the waves.

Everyone else: I’m alive. Didn’t do anything stupid. Stop sending emails. :p

I’ll give a fuller writeup of today’s photowalk at Lahinch in the morning, but for now I’ll just sign off with a huge thank you to Aafke and Rory for their unbelievable assistance in getting to and from Galway City!

I can’t even mark it missed, I’m sorry. It was a day of absolute personal rock bottom.