Made from stardust

Blipfoto can lead you to do some strange things. Posting every day leads you took around at things, to think about what might form a photo, ideally a good photo, and it makes you look up, down, sideways at things.

You have a number of “emergency blips” that you know you can turn to if the day has not been productive. Or you get a shot or two taken early on so you know that you have something in the camera just in case.

We've had 20 months of covid restrictions which, worryingly if tonight’s news about a new variant is confirmed as being bad, could continue much longer. Being grounded in one location has made the daily photo even more challenging.

Today we had delivered a range of bathroom equipment in preparation for upgrading the upstairs bathroom in the New Year when the final items arrive. Inevitably it came wrapped in plastic for protection and to keep it secure on the palette while in transit.

I don’t know what made me decide to throw the ball of plastic in the air to photograph it descending. Perhaps it was the news of the rocket being fired to nudge an asteroid out of its orbit.

Perhaps because I’ve been watching Prof Brian Cox’s programmes on the universe. The first programme about stars began to help me understand the Big Bang concept and the description of the different types of stars and their longevity was fascinating. The timescale and magnitude of the universe are mind blowing and the fact that everything - including the ball of plastic wrapping - comes from stardust may have played a part.

In any event it makes a change from a blip of flowers.