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Friday, 22 March 2013

Earth Hour 2013

Just a reminder to switch off your lights and experience the natural beauty of our wonderful home, Earth, at 8:30pm- 9:30pm on Saturday, March 23.

"Earth Hour is the single, largest, symbolic mass participation event in the world. Born out of a hope that we could mobilize people to take action on climate change, Earth Hour now inspires a global community of millions of people in 7,001 cities and towns across 152 countries and territories to switch lights off for an hour as a massive show of concern for the environment."

Check out www.earthhour.org/ for more details.

This is a slide photo I took about 10 years ago while camping in the Cederberg under the magnificent Sandfontein Arch. I didn't have anything as sophisticated as a remote shutter release for my little Pentax film camera back then, so I set up my shot using a boulder as a tripod and taped a tiny round pebble to the shutter button to hold it down for an hour. My chommies assisted by painting the arch with our head torches for a few minutes, and the rest was lit by candlelight.
Back in those good old days of film there was no instant gratification and I had to wait till I got back to civilisation before I'd see whether the shot had worked or not! I was so chuffed when I viewed this one under the loupe on the light table!

May you all have a funtabulistic Earth hour, day, week, month, year, life!

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