Storks and streets in the kasbah.
Archive for the ‘Photographic’ Category
If this is January, this must be Marrakesh
Monday, January 25th, 2010London Wetland Centre
Sunday, December 13th, 2009At a visit to the LWC today, I saw a heron stalk, catch and eat a mouse-thing. Luckily I had the camera.
The Stalking.
The Catch.
The Payoff.
And swallow.
X-rays
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Now I have an xray machine to play with at work, I can take photographs of the insides of things. I shall make full use of this. Here’s an old transistor to start with.
Image details : Mullard OC44 PNP Germanium transistor, glass envelope. 90kV polychromatic xrays, filtered with 1.5mm Al and 0.2 mm Cu. CsI scintillator, 6 sec exposure.
A bee enjoying a flower
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Neutrons
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Last week I went off to ISIS at RAL to fire neutrons at layers of fats and dye to find out how they stick together.I now have to crunch the data to see if we learned anything useful.
I took some photos of the particle accelerator (while standing on top of it) and the neutron source.