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The Statues of Memnon. Plain of Thebes by Francis Frith, The Met’s Photos

David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

Halberd of Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein (1611–1684), Arms and Armor

Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel, gold, wood, textile

Ed Westcott, Residents of Oak Ridge, TN, fill Jackson Square to celebrate the surrender of Japan. Oak Ridge was one of the three main sites of the Manhattan Project, and was responsible (though those working there did not know it) for refining uranium to be shipped to Los Alamos to be fashioned into atomic bombs, 14 August 1945.

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After a week of vacation in one of the most beautiful and dark places on Earth (Tenerife) and after a lot of time outside taking stills and time-lapse sequences, I am happy to share a little bit of this astrophotography and nature heaven with you guys. I highly recommend to visit this place and especially hike up El Teide, the famous volcano, peaking at 3780m, at night or even during the day. The atmosphere there is really special, lunar even, and I was eventually able to experience the night sky lighting up the ground for the first time! I had never seen the milky way (especially its core) so bright! Indeed Tenerife benefits from it’s low latitude, exceptionally dark skies (polluted by maybe a few towns), low air pollution and dry conditions year round. I had to bump my ISO to 6400 many times, even at f/2.0! I hope you enjoy this little time-lapse of Tenerife as much as I enjoyed staying there and hope you consider a vacate there if you are an astrophotography/nightsky freak!

All shots taken with Sony alpha 7r2 and canon EOS 70D.

St. Pauls Cathedral, Macao by John Thomson, The Met’s Photos

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative