Dec 28 2011

Resplendent

Posted in Fractal Art

I’m hopelessly addicted to minibrots in the Mandelbrot set; find them endlessly fascinating and spend oodles of time searching for them. But – I only occasionally do anything with them.

However, this time around I found a particularly appealing series of structures as I delved down from my starting Julia set and so I decided to work on them and present them in honour of my dear friend, Gina, who is celebrating her birthday.

Each is a zoom into the centre of the one above.

They remind me of you, Gee : resplendent, fascinating, intricate & infinite. I hope you like them :)

[Edit: I'm ashamed to admit that in a moment of senility I originally used a adjective as the title of this post that didn't mean quite what I intended and pray it caused no offence!]

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Nov 14 2011

Jaw – dropping!

Posted in Photography, Science & Technology

Timelapse of NASA images – a must see.

From the originator’s description:

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by Ron Garan
fragileoasis.org/?bloggernauts/?Astro_Ron and the crew of expedition
28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October,
2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around
350 km with a high ISO HD Camera developed by NHK Japan,
nicknamed the SS-HDTV camera. All credit goes to them.
I intend to upload a FullHD-version presently.

The video is embedded below but I strongly recommend watching it in HD on Vimeo, on the largest screen you have available :)

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Aug 21 2011

A Motley Collection

Posted in Fauna, Nature, Photography

Over the last 2 or three years, I’ve paid a few visits to a local zoo (Banham Zoo). There’s a real challenge in trying to take pictures that don’t give away the fact that they were taken in a zoo setting, especially if they have to be taken through fences or glass. It’s not always possible to do this of course, and much to my irritation some of my favourite images simply scream “ZOO”. For instance, on my last visit the sizeable troupe of Colobus monkeys were temporarily shut in a glass-walled enclosure but that gave us a really good view of the interaction of these striking-looking animals with a newborn which – even more strikingly – is all white. I’ve also never managed a decent shot of the leopards without a wire fence in the background, and never managed (yet!) a good shot of the cheetahs. Ah well, might be time for another trip :) In the meantime, here is a selection of my favourite images to date.

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Aug 07 2011

A wild night out in Cromer

Posted in Photography, Places

Well, no – not exactly. Not sure it’s even possible to HAVE a wild night out in Cromer! Though the town has to be a contender for the worst-sung karaoke capital of the UK, if that lights your fire ;)

A couple of my workmates and I headed to Cromer on Friday in the hope of catching a decent sunset and trying some night shots. (Original plans to stand in the middle of a field and try photographing star trails were dumped because there were too many clouds about.) We saw a reasonable sunset, managed to avoid the many fish’n'chip shops, and had a few giggles along the way.

Anyway, here are the images;

Some gentle light looking in the opposite direction:

And a last look at the sunset:

After the light had gone: the Pier

And the last one, on the Pier. The wind was whipping around briskly by then so a 3 second exposure caught some interesting movement in the bunting. ‘Im indoors really likes this one: my opinion changes every time I look at it.

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