My Favorite Images Of February 2012

Here are my favorite images of February 2012. Though we had some really shabby weather this past month, there is always something to find out there if you keep your eyes open. Enjoy!

 

Lunar halo, with Sirius (left) and Jupiter (right)…

 

32 min. single star trail exposure, yours truly right on spot…

 

Putting up hop steel wires around the Hallertau, Bavaria @15°C below zero…

 

Rise of the almost full moon above the cathedral tower…

 

A tribute to Minor White – after a snow storm…

 

Starry sky over Trausnitz castle…

 

White frost…

 

Blown away @ dusk…

 

Beam me up… 

 

A blast of a sunset…

 

The “most lying” crescent moon until again 2027…

 

What better to finish a cloudy day with?

 

Conjunction of the crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter – right to left…

 

Sunset @ f 16…

 

The city of Landshut @ night…

 

“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”

(William Cowper, English Poet, 1731-1800)