'Cape Byron Lighthouse'

Cape Byron Lighthouse

[Public Domain] 1 Jul 2014 Dylan O'Donnell
CATEGORY : Astrophotography
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I like to think that when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, he turned off his radio comms for a second, unzipped his space-fly, held his breath and drained the main vein in microgravity on the lunar surface, boldly whizzing, where no man has whizzed before or since.

So too, as I looked up at the beauty of the universe last night under the milky way, my camera clicking away long exposures, I looked around in the darkness, unzipped my earth-fly and took a tinkle off the cliffs that are the Eastern most point of Australia.

That is one small whiz for a man…

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