3 Billion lightyears later Sep 182013
This week's post is certainly a little out there. Cough. Cough. (The painfully simple joke will be apparent soon enough.)
Just the other night, we came across a video floating around the web of an event dating back to 1996. It tells the story of a group of astronomers that took a big risk. With all the evidence stacked against them, they chose to spend their valuable time with the Hubble telescope peering into what was then believed to be nothing. No stars. No Planets. No galaxies. Just a whole lot of nothing. It was this decision however, that proved to be one of the most fortuitous for not only the scientists, but humanity as whole.
Upon closing the telescope, the light of 3,000 galaxies, traveling for over 3 billion lightyears, was smeared onto the image. This was officially the furthest we had ever seen into our universe and with it came the realization of hundreds of thousands more galaxies and with each one millions of stars as well as planets to discover.
I share this with you guys because I cannot think of a better example of a few individuals taking a chance on what may very well prove to be the failure it is expected to be but instead create or in this case discover something truly extraordinary.
The creative process is exactly that. A chance to take a risk and having done so explore something truly unknown by anyone and experience it and share it with others. The potential we have to use the tools available to us to capture the way light plays off a subject or illuminates an often unseen angle is truly wonderful. It can be all to easy to get bogged down in the specs of this product or the weight of that. Instead, it is invaluable to always remember the truly unlimited, infinite, potential each of us has to create. That is why we do what we do. The power of creation is unlike anything else.
With that said, get out there and play with the world and capture it and share it however you may like. It is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other.
Cheers.
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