Derek Keats: Blog

Talking about things that interest me, and hopefully interest you too.

Monthly archives: June 2015

Moon — I went out with my daughter tonight to see Venus and Jupiter, with thanks to Esther for alerting us. The photo that we took is below. Note that Venus is much much much smaller, but because it is so much closer it looks bigger. Notice also that you can see […]

A little amateur photo astronomy tonight

30th June 2015 in Astronomy and sky photography tagged astronomy / night sky / stars by Derek Keats

NGC 6744 — Today is Sunday, a day when supposedly over 2.2 billion of the World’s 7+ Billion people are supposed to worship a variety of entities that differ from person to person, but for which there is not a single shred of empirical evidence. In my case, I give thanks to the […]

Giving thanks and pondering the future

28th June 2015 in Atheism and religion / Uncategorised tagged religion / universe by Derek Keats

Serval cat — The title of this post, “Photography is passion, energy, thought and knowledge combined with light, colour, shape, texture and movement to create emotion”, tries to capture what photography means to me. This is a repost of something I posted to my old blog about three years ago. Anyone who knows […]

Photography is passion, energy, thought and knowledge combined with light, ...

27th June 2015 in Nature photography / Uncategorised tagged photography by Derek Keats

I went for a short visit to the future, and I came across these history notes. I thought I would share them with you. Earth June 27, 2115 100 years ago today, the Earth was a very different place. You may be surprised just how different it was. Here are […]

Future history of 2015

27th June 2015 in Critical thinking tagged countries / free software / gender / religion / same-sex / states / technology by Derek Keats

This is my new blog site, it is replacing my old blog that is still up for now at www.dkeats.com, but which I have not attended to lately. It is my intention to try to blog regularly on topics that interest me, and that will hopefully be of interest to […]

Welcome to my new blog

27th June 2015 in Uncategorised by Derek Keats