032/366: Symmetry

Two tree trunks in a park near Chateau Steelypips.

Took the camera along this afternoon when I took Emmy for a walk (Kate and I are going to see The Martian tonight, so Emmy got an early dinner and stroll), and took pictures of a bunch of random stuff in a little park near our house. Including these two pictures pasted together into one:… Continue reading 032/366: Symmetry

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031/366: It Begins

The first fall colors from the maple tree out front.

It’s October 1, aka “the day it starts being hard to keep track of what number photo we’re on,” and we’re officially into Fall here in the Northeast US. Accordingly, it’s a bit chilly (about 30F colder than a week ago), and while most of the leaves are still green, we’re starting to see some… Continue reading 031/366: It Begins

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030/366: Liquid Optics

Water drops on the canopy on our deck, with little inverted images of the back yard.

It’s rained fairly steadily for the last couple of days, which is to be expected. This also sent me to the back yard in hopes of getting a very particular effect for the photo of the day, that I had seen on a poster from the APS’s student photo contest a few years ago: Here… Continue reading 030/366: Liquid Optics

On the Aesthetics of Photo Cropping

The Pip running, in a wider shot.

The images from my new camera are huge– 6000×4000 pixels– so when I post them here, I need to re-scale them (in theory WordPress can do that automatically, but it’s never worked right on the rare occasions that I’ve tried). Since I’m opening the pictures in GIMP anyway, I generally do a little cropping and… Continue reading On the Aesthetics of Photo Cropping

028/366: Peek-a-Bench

The Pip grinning from behind a bench.

The JCC day care is closed today and tomorrow for the start of Sukkot, so as a result, I spent most of the day home with The Pip (SteelyKid went off to school as usual). Which means I got a whole bunch of photos of him playing at home and at a couple of local… Continue reading 028/366: Peek-a-Bench

027/366: #SuperBloodMoon

SteelyKid looking at the eclipse through her telescope.

Really, was there any question at all what the subject of today’s photo would be? I mean, I’m a geek, I have a fancy camera– of course I was taking pictures of the lunar eclipse. But more importantly, I was sharing it with SteelyKid: That’s SteelyKid looking through her telescope at the early stages of… Continue reading 027/366: #SuperBloodMoon

026/366: Pancakes in Infrared

A pancake cooking at Chateau Steelypips.

The image here of a pancake cooking isn’t particularly interesting in its own right, other than as documentation of our weekend ritual at Chateau Steelypips. Saturday and sunday mornings, Kate sleeps in while the kids watch cartoons and I cook pancakes for them. SteelyKid absolutely drowns hers in maple syrup, then refuses to eat them,… Continue reading 026/366: Pancakes in Infrared

025/366: Teaser

Still frame from video shot for a physics thing.

I spent a while today shooting video of myself on the back porch. Which technically qualifies for the photo-a-day project, because I used the video feature of my new camera. So, here’s a still frame. What am I doing here, and why? You’ll have to wait until I finish the analysis and write it up… Continue reading 025/366: Teaser

024/366: Soaring

A soaring bird-- turkey vulture, I think-- from the Helderberg Escarpment at Thacher park.

While I have a bunch of stuff in progress, it’s been a hectic week already, so I blew off the middle park of the day to go to Thacher State Park and take a hike with my camera. I got a whole bunch of photos from this, and later on, I’ll sort them all and… Continue reading 024/366: Soaring

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