Past Galleries

Monday, March 29, 2010

London 2: St. Clement's



St. Clement's Church, London - baptismal place of John Quincy Adams, the last President of the United States to be foreign-born.

Also namesake of the children's rhyme "Oranges and lemons say the bells of St. Clement's / You owe me five farlings say the bells of St. Martin's..."

ISO 64
1/100 sec
f/4.8
11 mm

Posted by Kevin at 5:55 AM

2 comments:

Unknown March 29, 2010 at 8:34 AM  

Kevin, you are awesome. Your blog is amazing. When did you visit London?

Kevin March 29, 2010 at 8:37 AM  

David, why thank you. I was in London in May 2007. We made a port call there on our way home from Scotland in USS BAINBRIDGE (DDG 96).

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Why "A Message From Earth"?

In 1979, Voyager I launched to the outer limits of the solar system and beyond. It carried onboard a gold plated disk for the reference of any intelligent life that found it to learn about earth. The disk contained images of the human figure, greetings in 55 languages, 115 sounds from nature, 90 minutes of music from a variety of cultures and eras, along with a greeting from the President of the United States and Secretary General of the United Nations. These are the only relics of human civilization outside the solar system.

Like Voyager, this record here beams elements of this life into the digital ether. Who will find it? What meaning will it have to them? I hope if the one who finds it is you, this record will have meaning to you of some sort.