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St Mark's Square, Venice, February 2005. We weren't expecting snow ...https://flic.kr/p/tenhv

Michael Ixer ● 2401d11 Comments

Staying with Italy, the European Gravitational Observatory housing the Virgo detrector near Pisa. The 3km laser guides are too long to get both in the picture ...https://flic.kr/p/2aU3oXLSadly, both Virgo and the two LIGO greavity wave detectors in the US are shut because of COVID-19.

Michael Ixer ● 2401d

New York, nighttime, 2005 from the Empire State Buildinghttps://flic.kr/p/MbqXP

Michael Ixer ● 2400d

Great photos. I'd have been worried the snow in St Mark's Sq was covering ice!

Freddie Francis ● 2399d

Thanks Freddie. It fell that that morning. We weren't expecting it, it wasn't that cold, there was no water to freeze under the snow: Venice wasn't flooded at that time! We were slightly concerned as we were flying back to London later that day but the vaporetti were running ok. Some American friends though it was quite picturesque 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2399d

Over to Greece today to see an Athenian tortoise ....https://flic.kr/p/23iKoK2

Michael Ixer ● 2399d

Perhaps we need some of these at the moment? A mobile quarantine unit at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC. This one was used by the Apollo 11 astronauts following their return from the moon. It was transported from their watery landing point by sea, air and land to the main quarantine and medical facilities at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston.https://flic.kr/p/9SKMm6https://flic.kr/p/9SKM3Xhttps://flic.kr/p/9SKMei

Michael Ixer ● 2398d

Interesting how audio technology has evolved in a life time: from scratchy shellac 78s still on sale in the 1950s, to soft/pliable vinyl, then clinical CDs evolving to dust less  digital downloads ... but I still think there was something magical about being able the "see" the music in  the grooves on an LP with those big, often imaginative, covers even if it was a battle to rid them of those clicks and plops from dust ...https://flic.kr/p/2iHj7LB

Michael Ixer ● 2397d

A rainbow over Edinburgh Castlehttps://flic.kr/p/KTyiqj

Michael Ixer ● 2396d

For Putney's tea drinkers - the Esrl Grey monument,  Newcastle:https://flic.kr/p/JLWf4w

Michael Ixer ● 2395d

Turns out it's National Tea Day today (21st April) 🙂

Michael Ixer ● 2394d

Back, closer to home: East Putney rooftops, looking towards Wandsworth https://flic.kr/p/2iaAu76

Michael Ixer ● 2394d