Greetings from Hati and Skoll!

I have been struggling to bring Hati and Skoll back on line. It has been a while and these days there’s always a battle with “customer support” somewhere along the road – well-intentioned and kind people, but always ready to take you off your path. I feel a bit like I am on a mythic trip through the Egyptian underworld! Yet here, in the end I am here, My photographic soul has been weighed by a multitasking Anubis processing many souls at once. I am a kind of modern Jedermann, where few, if any know what I am talking about.

Really observant readers will note the reversion here to an earlier and simpler WordPress webtheme. I’m not sure if I don’t prefer it.

My photographic journey, of late, has been busy exploring infinities: the infinity of space through robot telescopes and the seeming infinity of biodiversity in Southern Florida. I am going to try and catch-up; so apologize for photographs out of time and context. These infinities are what I have called before, “The Enormity.” They represent what is ultimately the blessing of a receptive life on Earth. It is the ever-present dichotomy of how small and how large we are.

So today an image I took this week on an 200 mm Skygems Observatories Telescope in Namibia, a wide-field image that includes both the Flame (NGC 2024) and the Horsehead Nebulae (Barnard 33). I have photographed both of these with a small telescope in suburban Boston skies – heavily light polluted, what’s referred to as Bortle 5.7. Here they are under the skies that primitive man took for granted. I think this is from a wonderful Bortle 1. Like the demise of biodiversity, we have every so slowly, but consistently, brought this terrible light pollution upon ourselves.