Swans on Tea

Arts: Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images
Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos. “I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says. Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets [...]

Guns and roses: The photographer who literally shoots his subjects
Flavour explosion: Cherry tomatoes dipped in liquid nitrogen made for stunning results. The artist shot both red and yellow varieties

Cocktail Party Physics: images from supernovae to supermodels
Light can be modeled as photons, which are characterized by a wavelength λ and a frequency f. Those quantities are connected by the speed at which the wave travels (which, for electromagnetic waves, is the speed of light). c = f λ, which means that the wavelength [...]

21 Great Shots [And How They Were Taken]

Long exposure of bugs flying around a light.
As promised.

flight patterns
Long exposures of bugs under a street light.
Oh, this is just TFC. I expect I will be staking out a streetlight with my DSLR in the near future.

I’ve been having way too much fun with my new camera, and (as any regular reader knows) have posted several videos. Many more are still unedited and unuploaded (is that a word?), and even more will just sit as a collection of magnetic orientations on my hard drive because they ended up being not [...]

Invisible flash takes photos without the glare
Although the dark flash gives a crisp image without disturbing those in the picture, the results have an odd colour balance that looks like a view through a night-vision scope.
To give the pictures more normal hues, Krishnan and Fergus used colour information from a brief, flash-free photograph of the [...]

Super-slow-motion pictures show soap bubble bursting in stunning detail
I’m secure enough to admit that this guy’s hardware is superior to mine. But I have a confession to make: I am not left-handed
Here’s a frame from one of my shots. I should use a better background.

Force of Nature: Artist Puts Petal to the Metal for Electrifying Images
Buelteman’s technique is an elaborate extension of Kirlian photography (a high-voltage photogram process popular in the late 1930s) and is considered so dangerous and laborious that no one else will attempt it—even if they could get through all the steps.

I never saw a purple cow;
I never hope to see one;
but I can tell you anyhow;
I’d rather see than be one!
I modified a webcam to allow IR photography, but didn’t think to take a picture like the one Matt has displayed, in which a stove’s heating element glows purple (when viewed with his camera), just [...]

I was browsing the web and ran across this Gigapixel image of downtown Vancouver. I used to live there — not downtown, since my postdoc salary wouldn’t support that — but I opened it to see if I recognized the area. And I did, but not from when I lived there. [...]