Photos
As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, as of last fall I’ve been enjoying having a modern camera (a Sony Nex5N). It had gotten to the point that my phone took better photos than my actual point-and-shoot digital camera…which was fine for snapshots, but it was disappointing going to really beautiful places, taking […]
A new website to share scientific images
As part of our social media class at UC Santa Cruz, a couple of classmates and I came up with the idea to create a site where scientists could easily share striking scientific images. (All of us used to work in lab and take pretty scientific photos that we didn’t know where to share.) The […]
Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2010
Digital Journal of Photography: Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2010 – Results. Gorgeous astronomy photos at the link above, all winners of this year’s Royal Observatory competition. The winner is shown above. The young astronomy photographer winner is a 14-year old Indian boy, with a photo of a solar eclipse taken on an older digital […]
This year’s best microscopic photos
The Year’s Best Smallest Photography. Another year, another set of stunning microscopic images from Nikon’s Small World contest. Check out some of the favorite photos of Wired’s Betsy Mason, who also judged this year’s contest. I can’t believe it’s been a year since I posted last year’s winners for PopSci.com, here’s that post as a […]
The early twentieth century in color
It’s weird, but when I think of any era before the 1950s, I always picture it in black-and-white. I guess it’s just the effect of all the old movies and photos. The technology for color photography was actually around from sometime in the late-1800s, it was just too expensive and the techniques weren’t perfected for […]
2009 Photo Contest Winners Gallery – National Wildlife Federation
2009 Photo Contest Winners Gallery – National Wildlife Federation. 2009 Photo Contest Honorable Mentions – National Wildlife Federation. Just came across these photos of the winners and honorable mentions from the National Wildlife Federation‘s 2009 photo contest. See the links above for all the images, there’s 32 winners (across several categories) and 60 honorable mentions, […]
Pics of the Earth, Tweeted from Space!
Twitpic / Astro_Soichi. Japanese Astronaut Soichi Noguchi takes photos from aboard the International Space Station and tweets them directly to his Twitpic account along with a caption. He’s definitely managed to take several stunning photos, all over the world. Here’s one of Space Shuttle Endeavor, and strange-looking structures in Bahrain.