Tag: Observation

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Flip Phone Pix

Here are some fun with a flip phone photos from in and around San Jose. These photos have no added filter effects; this is just how cell phone photos use to look. They are less than 2 megapixels and sometimes look a little like computer generated paintings and sometimes like incredibly detailed versions of foggy dreams.

Flip Phone Pics

Bathroom in downtown Santa Cruz food court.

Flip Phone Pics

Twin Lakes beach in Santa Cruz.

Flip Phone Pics

Cottonwood Lake in Hellyer County Park in San Jose.

Flip Phone Pics

A street sign in San Jose.

Flip Phone Pics

Bobblehead race at the A’s game in Oakland.

Flip Phone Pics

Bubbles in the air from a vendor at the Newark Days festival in Newark.

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Eclipse – The Moon and the Sun in our Space

10/14/2023 Eclipse from San Jose

The eclipse on October 14th, 2023 as seen from San Jose, California. This photo was taken soon after the maximum coverage as seen from San Jose through a protective film over the camera lens.

Somehow, when they are lined up like this, it makes it easier to imagine these giant balls floating in space, suspended from all sides by their gravity in relation to space and to earth and myself. I know they are always floating like this, though the alignment makes it more real to my mind, placing them in relation to each other, the sun and moon, making their shared presence in the same sky less abstract. Instead of two circles in the sky as I often sense them; like this, it is easier to sense these giant spheres as very real worlds, more than circles, right out there in our neighborhood of space.