Every day our eyes catch the light of our memories – time spent with family, the journey to work, a special holiday, a beautiful sunset or a dark starlit night. Each image captured is a picture drawn in light – a photograph: only to be lost in our minds or forever forgotten. Nearly two hundred years ago a small group of amateur scientists achieved what had eluded mankind for centuries – the ability to capture a permanent record of an image seen by their own eyes – a moment in time frozen onto a surface. They had discovered Photography. They were the ‘Catchers of the Light’.
Light Pollution in Athens Greece
Night-time light emissions over Greece on 19/09/2001
Modelling of light pollution in suburban areas using remotely sensed
imagery and GIS
C. Chalkiasa,*, M. Petrakisb, B. Psilogloub, M. LianoubDepartment of Geography, Harokopio University
Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Night-time light emissions over Greece on 19/09/2001
2 comments:
You must admit that this picture is pretty old (2001). I have been in Athens this summer and I am sure that the situation is much worse now!
You have absolutely right.
The light pollution now is at least a nightmare...!!!
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