A Photograph

Our closest neighbor, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri isn’t visible to the eye. It’s part of the Alpha Centauri star system, home to three known stars and the closest stellar system to our sun. It is only at 4.22 light-years away. It has a planet called Proxima Centauri b in the habitable zone and about 1.07 times the size of the Earth.

The Universe looks at itself, approvingly. It needs a record of this miracle.

It needs:

KEEPERS OF THE LIGHT

Photography was manifested to capture space-time events for future consciousnesses to gaze upon and ponder. The photograph describes these events, the positions of photons reflecting off of matter, 13.7 billion years after their inception. The heavy elements from exploding stars, iron, silver, platinum and gold are used to capture photon energy at the image plane on film and transfer it to paper.

A photograph by Modern Vintage Photography July 28th, 2023. Natai Phang-nga, Thailand