A photo collection of the winners of the Lake County amateur photo contest for the year Local photographers from across Lake County submitted pictures each week and the following pictures were chosen to be the best of the month. The photography staff would like to thank everyone who entered and to those who won. Images: The monthly winners of the amateur photo contest for Lake.
All rights reserved. A young girl peers through a telescope at Scope X, the biggest amateur telescope-making and science outreach festival in Africa, which takes place every year in Johannesburg, South Africa. Humanity has woven its dreams and mythologies into the night sky for millennia, yet it can often seem inaccessible or impossibly far away—the realm of space telescopes , celebrity astronauts , and professional astronomers in mountaintop observatories. Telescopes seem to sprout from the fields of Vermont during the Stellafane amateur telescope-making and astronomy festival.
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All the evidence in the room pointed to imminent karaoke. There was a tiny stage and a television monitor flashing words. There was an energetic hostess trying to whip people into the mood. And the people, about a dozen, were waiting patiently for their third beer to lend them the necessary talent.