Can we even calculate the probability of a truly lucky shot? This is what I often ask myself when looking at this image of mine from April 19, 2025, captured near the SOAR Observatory on Cerro Pachón at sunset. It was in the last seconds of the already dramatic phenomenon, during which a multiple green…
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Every year in mid-August, almost at the same time like the Perseids, another meteor shower peaks: the κ-Cygnid. Named after the star Kappa (κ) in the Swan constellation, from where the slow meteors seemingly appear, they are almost not known as–unlike the Perseids–they have a very low rate of meteors, only about 3 per hour…
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La Mano del Desierto, Hand of the Desert, Desert Hand. A unique 11-meter reinforced concrete sculpture located about 62 km south of the Chilean city of Antofagasta, was built in 1992 by the now 85-year-old sculptor Mario Irarrázabal Covarrubias and attracts hundreds to thousands of tourists from all over the world every day. It is…
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Every year around the summer solstice, the Sun sets over the old Lichnice castle ruins when viewed from the Seč city. Lichnice was constructed in the first half of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in 1261, when it was in the possession of Smil of Ronow, who called himself Smil of Lichtenburg, thereby…
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Yes, also I am now one of the lucky people who witnessed of beauty of the largest salt flat in the world, the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. At 10582 square kilometers of 3700 meters above the sea level, is nothing but natural salt and very little water, which can work beautifully as a large natural…
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What are the odds? Yesterday evening, when photographing the sunset from the Vicuña region, Chile, I was incredibly lucky with one shot. An airplane landing at La Serena airport flew just in front of the last edge of the Sun while multiple green flashes occurred too. All took a fragment of a second. According to…
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They used to say the eclipses were bad omens. Well, solar eclipses can truly make people surprised, but now we know that they are just a result of pure and simple physics, mostly optics. Like today’s one, on 29 March 2025, which I symbolically captured over St. Mark Chapel of Dolní Rokytnice (of Rokytnice nad…
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