Academy Awards Nominees

The nominees for the 79th Academy Awards have been released. You can view the list here. The nominees for Best Picture are:

• “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers
• “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)A Warner Bros. Pictures Production Graham King, Producer
• “Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers
• “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)A Big Beach/Bona Fide ProductionDavid T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers
• “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)A Granada ProductionAndy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

I haven't seen Letters from Iwo Jima yet. But out of the others, I think Babel will get it.

A couple of beautiful photos

A friend of mine sent me these two photographs recently. I thought I'd share them with you.

This one is of the Sombrero galaxy taken with an infrared camera.

And this one is of a comet taken in New Zealand. The haze in the background is caused by the bushfires in Australia.

We live in an awesome universe!