Huddy's Fifth Birthday/Sunset from Griffith Observatory

We had a wonderful time at the Griffith Observatory yesterday evening as part of Hudson's Fifth Birthday Treat. We saw Saturn through the big telescope, we saw twin stars (one white, one blue) through a smaller telescope, and we saw the amazing planetarium show about the origins of the universe.

Huddy loved it all - not least this amazing sunset over the Hollywood Hills (actually over the Hollywood Sign). Happy 5th Birthday again, Hudson xxxxx

iPhone Dawn

Dawn with rare summer cloud (rare for California, anyway). I like the Van Gogh effect of this picture. This is a series of photographs of dawn that I have been taking, using my iPhone camera. I love the quality of pictures the iPhone creates, kind of in the way that Warhol loved Polaroids - although the colors and resolution here reflect more accurately what I see with my eyes:)

A friend said that if you look at this picture upside-down, it resembles waves on the sea breaking onto a beach.

Dawn Thursday July 16th 2009, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch in 1969. Radiant beauty!

The moon and a star (just visible toward the left of frame), photographed on Thursday July 16th 2009, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.

Dawn with the mountains floating in the clouds.