Star Trails by Eric Nathan

201 – Star Trails Mandala

International photographer, Eric Nathan, created this amazing and beautiful nightscape image using hundreds of long-exposure images of the night sky over Cape Town South Africa.

It fascinates me how it creates a vortex-like image in space. Because we move so slowly, we hardly notice the stars “moving” let alone “moving” in a circular pattern.

Pluto's Heart - Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

196 – Pluto’s Heart Mandala

Yesterday an amazing thing happened…and it was 10 years and three-billion-miles in the making! NASA’s New Horizons did it’s closest flyby past the last known planet in our solar system: Pluto. And look what appeared around the back side: an area that looks like a heart. And for me, I can also see it as a white dove flapping its wings.

Sisters Mandala

195 – Sisters Mandala

My dear colouring friend, Michelle, is at it again with colouring mandalas. This time it’s the “Sisters” mandala from my Love and Light mandala coloring book. I always find her colourings to the delightful and insightful…so much so that I’ve showcased her colourings in previous MotD posts: 9, 15, 24, 86, 119, 142, 150, 159, 182.