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Chuey House, 1958. Julius Shulman. Gelatin silver.

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The Milky Way beyond Earth’s horizon by NASA Johnson Via Flickr: iss072e574668 (Jan. 29, 2025) — The Milky Way appears beyond Earth’s horizon in this celestial photograph captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit using a camera with low light and long duration settings pointed out a window on the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. The International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just before sunrise.

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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan - Author: arya_queenie

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Doppler Effect

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Curiosity

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Found another good one to share in the series of editing photos from slides I inherited. A fantastic moment between my grandfather & grandmother, both were quite young, guessing late 1960s …

First photo is direct from the slide and second is with some cleanup and editing applied by me.

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Buses crossing at Holborn Viaduct

Ig: walkuponacloud

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renovation ahead

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🔥 The beacons are lit; the library calls for aid

The Trump administration has issued an executive order aimed at dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services - the ONLY federal agency for America's libraries.

Using just 0.003% of the federal budget, the IMLS funds services at libraries across the country; services like Braille and talking books for the visually impaired, high-speed internet access, and early literacy programs.

Libraries are known for doing more with less, but even we can't work with nothing.

How You Can Help:

🔥 Call your congressperson!

Use the app of your choice or look 'em up here: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Pro tip: If your phone anxiety is high, call at night and leave a voicemail. You can even write yourself a script in advance and read it off. Heck, read them this post if you want to.

Phones a total no-go? The American Library Association has a form for you: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

🔥Tell your friends!

Tell strangers, for that matter. People in line at the check out, your elderly neighbor, the mail carrier - no one is safe from your library advocacy. Libraries are for everyone and we need all the help we can get.

...Wait, why do we need this IMLS thing again?

The ALA says it best in their official statement and lists some ways libraries across the country use IMLS funding:

But if you want a really specific answer, here at LCPL we use IMLS funding to provide our amazing interlibrary loan service. If we can't purchase an item you request (out of print books, for example) this service lets us borrow it from another library and check it out to you.

IMLS also funds the statewide Indiana Digital Library and Evergreen Indiana, which gives patrons of smaller Indiana libraries access to collections just as large and varied as the big libraries' collections.

As usual, cutting this funding will hurt rural communities the most - but every library user will feel it one way or another. Let's let Congress know that's unacceptable.

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Up Where The Air Is Thin

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Photo Projects - No 6 Landscape I've Not Shot Before

Amazing gardens on the Isle of Capri with more of the island in the background.

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Austria

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Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach, Iceland | stefanliebermannphoto