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Babak Tafreshi | Photographer | Explorer | Speaker

National Geographic photojournalist, founder of The World at Night (TWAN), preserving natural night skies, bridging art & science

Author: Babak Tafreshi

National Geographic photographer, science journalist, founder of The World at Night (TWAN) program, preserving natural night skies, bridging art & science

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Some years ago In Paris I waited for the moon to align with the Champs-Élysées Avenue as it set over the Arc de Triomphe. A police officer came to check on my “suspicious” activity and was thrilled to see the moon right above the arc. We are so used to the moon's presence that we often forget its cosmic identity—how bizarre it is to see another world so easily and strikingly from 400,000 kilometers (250,000 mi) away. For a car traveling nonstop at highway speed (100kph/60 mph), it would take six months to travel that distance.

Today is the launch of @windowsight app version 2.0, a new era of sharing high quality art, simply on your smart TV. I will be live here at 3pm ET (7pm GMT) about this. A growing number of other NatGeo photographers joined as contributors to this app. The new version shows videos too and offer a free membership which let far more people, specially in the developing world, to enjoy finely selected art on their TV. For unlimited access there is a paid subscription from $6/month which supports the artists. Use my invite code “SPACE” for a discount. Give it a try on WindowSight.com #getthebigpicture

Signals of Love. Watch the complete clip on my YouTube channel. Mesmerizing signals of fireflies and the elegant music of @barbadbayat. See a long-exposure image of this scene in the second slide with startrails.

In a world where more than 1 billion tons of food is wasted per year you don’t expect famine to occur. Famine is extreme scarcity of food which takes many lives, specially children. The last 1.5 year the world was too overwhelmed to remember the people in extreme hunger. 34 million people in over 20 countries are in desperate need of food and water, according to the UN @worldfoodprogramme. Without urgent action, famine could soon become a reality for three countries struggling with conflict or climate-related disasters - Yemen, South Sudan and Madagascar.

Zagros Mountains is home to incredible natural and cultural resources that I explored when living in Iran. The vast oak forest, waterfalls, canyons, wildlife, ancient heritage of many civilizations, and largest nomad tribes who still lead a traditional life. But this world-unique beauty is under a major threat in the recent years. Wildfires is not only a problem in the Western U.S. or Australia. Climate change and severe drought work hand in hand with corruption, extremely poor governmental management, and oak charocal smugglers. In the past weeks the locals, man and women from children to elders, were fighting with fires to save these forests without resources, while the world and state media are focused on Iran election “show”, missing the real story happening on this planet.

The signed & personalized copies of The World at Night book now come with a gift, a free 8’’x11’’ metallic print. You also have the option to add a larger signed print of one of the available iconic photos at 50% discount, a courtesy to the book readers. Free shipping in the US.

A sunrise like no other. This morning at 5 am, near home in Boston area, I was waiting for the partially eclipsed sun to rise from a clear ocean horizon but a layer of approaching high clouds changed the plan. Soon they acted as a natural filter and the view was spectacular through the telephoto lens but not to the naked eyes due to diffusing effect of clouds. How was your experience, anyone was in the annular eclipse path?

On June 10th an annular solar eclipse happens in the remote far north, visible to a few people and polar bears! Over the years I have documented eclipses in all continents but look forward to see only the partial phase which is visible to many millions of people in most of Eastern US and Canada, northern half of Europe, and across Russia. For tips on how to experience this watch the 6-min video about this on my YouTube channelI, a part of a recent webinar on 2021 sky events for photographers.

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