The Big Picture: Remembering Apollo 11
Also: radio rebroadcast from NASA
Category Archives: Photos
Bubbles, not Affiliated with Mr. Jackson
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.
Not Your Normal Snapshots
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.
Not Part of the Solution
Up Close and Personal
Gigapan collection of electron-microscope images of an ant
Gigapan: Ant – Eutetramorium mocquerysi
This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take high resolution images of very small things.
More at the Nano Gigapan blog
Also ant-related Mr. Ellis, Ant mega-colony takes over world
[I]t now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.
I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords, and want to disavow any connection with the Nano Gigapan pictures. I’m just the messenger.
I in the Sky
Northern Exposure. Southern, too.
Troubles Melt like Lemon Drops
18 Beautiful Rainbows from Around the World
And one more from Niskayuna, which comes with a physics explanation
Gelett Burgess's Stove
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 as it starts becoming incandescent. I have a gas stove.
Nighttime Sky Over Death Valley
Panorama of the nighttime sky over Death Valley. You can see the Milky Way as the arc in the center.
