Month: November 2015

080/366: ISO Revisited

Trying to match two photos at the extremes of the ISO settings on my camera.

A little while back, I did a comparison of the different ISO settings on my camera, and a bunch of people commented that it would be interesting to try to match two photos at different levels. So, here’s that: These aren’t quite perfectly matched, because the time settings give me a limited range of options,… Continue reading 080/366: ISO Revisited

079/366: Leaf Leap

The Pip mid-leap into the leaf pile in the back yard of Chateau Steelypips.

the Pip officially has strep throat, and thus had to stay home today, but the antibiotics he started yesterday (over his very strenuous objections) have worked wonders, so his energy level was pretty much back to normal. Which means that we spent a while out in the back yard raking up a big pile of… Continue reading 079/366: Leaf Leap

078/366: Quantum Calculations

Some notes and caffeine.

As threatened yesterday, another staged shot for a “quantum is difficult” image for an upcoming talk. This is a piece of a homework solution that was on a pad I had lying around– those are infinite square well wavefunctions. It’s about as trivial as you can get from quantum, but looks math-y enough to make… Continue reading 078/366: Quantum Calculations

Rotational Motion of a Bouncing Football

Still frame from the video of me bouncing a football on the deck.

I followed up my ranty-y post about “Sports Science” with an experimental investigation over at Forbes, tossing a football around on the deck out back and then doing video analysis of the bounces. This provided a wealth of data, much of it not really appropriate for over there, but good for a physics post or… Continue reading Rotational Motion of a Bouncing Football

077/366: Quantum Books

A selection of quantum physics books.

Another talk-prep photo, because I wanted a shot to suggest the academic side of quantum physics. Of course, my actual textbooks are all in my office on campus, but then, they mostly have boring covers and titles, so they’re not a great visual. So I stacked up some pop-physics books: I meant to write out… Continue reading 077/366: Quantum Books

076/366: Air Traffic

Contrails crossing in the northern sky.

It was a cool clear morning when I took Emmy out for our morning walk, with a band of high clouds running eat-west across the sky to our north. After watching a bit, I realized that these were probably entirely seeded by jet contrails, as I saw at least four planes flying along that band… Continue reading 076/366: Air Traffic

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075/366: Monochrome

Bare tree branches are interestingly creepy.

Another day when I only took a couple of pictures, on the morning dog walk. I noticed that one of the now leafless trees on the route looked interestingly creepy, so I took a couple shots of that. I didn’t notice that the mode selector on the camera had gotten bumped to full manual, though,… Continue reading 075/366: Monochrome

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074/366: Gotham City

The Pip's new Gotham City wall decal.

This is a pure document-my-day shot, not one of my random attempts at artsy effects. One of The Pip’s birthday presents was a big vinyl wall decal from Chic Walls, a gift from Aunt Erin in California. These are a little complicated to install, and SteelyKid being sick messed up the whole week, but I… Continue reading 074/366: Gotham City

073/366: Doubly Social

My desk, with social media on both computers.

Another day with a staged-for-talk-prep photo: I needed a picture of social-media apps on computer screens for an upcoming talk, so I took one. After first tweeting a cute-kid photo: Cute-kid photo because I want to take a picture of Twitter to use in a talk. pic.twitter.com/QIYHTda0vL — Chad Orzel (@orzelc) November 12, 2015 Yeah,… Continue reading 073/366: Doubly Social