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
029/366: 2-D Collision Physics
The JCC day care was closed again today, so I spent the day out and about with The Pip while SteelyKid was at school. While I did take the DSLR along, none of the pictures I got were all that great, so you get a cell-phone snapshot that’s mostly interesting because of the subject matter:… Continue reading 029/366: 2-D Collision Physics
On the Aesthetics of Photo Cropping
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 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
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
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
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
Physics Blogging Round-Up: Condensed Matter, Dew, Football, Cameras, and Movies
Another collection of posts over at my blog for Forbes: — Wormholes, Monopoles, And Weyl Fermions: Making Exotic Physics Inside Ordinary Matter: A sort of deep background look at what makes condensed matter cool. Drawing heavily on Jimmy Williams’s talk at the Schrodinger Sessions. — Why Does My Car Change Color In The Morning?: SteelyKid… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Condensed Matter, Dew, Football, Cameras, and Movies
024/366: Soaring
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
023/366: Green Mountains
This afternoon, I drove over to Vermont to give a talk on “What to Tell Your Dog About Einstein” for the Green Mountain Academy of Lifelong Learning. This was held at the Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester, VT, which sure is pretty: The audience for the talk was roughly evenly split between the two… Continue reading 023/366: Green Mountains