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Did you miss the supermoon a few days ago? I missed the moon set on Monday morning and the moonrise on Monday night, which I was a little bummed about, but managed to wake up for the moon set on Tuesday. And it was honestly worth every minute of that pre-crack of dawn rise! The November 14th supermoon was the second of three supermoons this year, and was more like an extra special super moon, being the closest the moon has been to Earth since 1948. This means the moon appeared much bigger and significantly brighter (in fact it was 14% larger and 30% brighter!) at the point of perigee – when the moon is closest to Earth. This was certainly a supermoon of a generation, which can be appreciated by moon lovers around the world, as we won't be seeing a moon like this until 2034! Here's a really cool and short (3 minute) video from the LiveScience Team and NASA explaining in more detail about what we just witnessed a few days ago.               ...

My CABE 'Urban Beauty' competition entry: 'Where The Troll Lives', Bethnal Green, London. I just want to pass a few quick thank you's to the following blogger's and photography supporters who were kind enough to mention my "Urban Beauty" photograph entry on their own individual web pages. My photo was short listed for the CABE photography competition themed "Urban Beauty in the UK" November 2010. It was also featured on the BBC website! Thank you  Ray Garrod ,  Moonlightwrite ,  Tek 14 ,  zabort.ru .  The support of good people like yourselves is not only heart warming, but also inspirational!   If you would like to see more of my photos featured on my flickr page you can click here .  ᐂ

My 'Small Victories' Entry That Made The Final Cut!   It was a standard Thursday night in Hong Kong, and my usual pre-cursor to the weekend's upcoming drinking and socialising. I was getting ready to go to a local exhibition around the corner from where I live. I love going to these events, meeting local artists and being able to share my interests in the creative side of life. And there on the walls of the Above Second Gallery, tonight my entry was on show, amongst 100 other entries that had made the final cut for the exhibition.  The gallery was showcasing a collection of photographs titled Small Victories , a concept created by  Jeff Hamada ,  a Japanese Canadian artist from Vancouver, BC. He came up with the brilliant concept of getting photographers of all levels from all corners of the world to send him copies of standard 4 × 6 prints of photographs capturing  "quietly beautiful, unintentionally funny, people and things all around us" . J...