…lets see what they look like. These days I work with X-Ray systems. I’m just finishing up commissioning and testing of the latest one, so I’m using it to image various things. This is a compact fluorescent lamp. At full size you can see the coils of tungsten wire in the electrodes in the glass …
Category Archives: Photographic
Amsterdam.
The flight from Southend Airport to Amsterdam Schiphol is surprisingly quick. Barely have you got comfortable in the seat with your book open, and easyjet have given up trying to sell you bacon rolls, and you’re about to land again. We stayed in an Airbnb place in the Emmastraat area of Amsterdam, a 4th floor …
Rain room
After a 3h wait at the Barbican, I’ve finally made it to the rain room. It’s a very strange experience walking towards steel rods of rain that get no closer to you.
Little spherical globs of evil.
I’m not sure those bags are strong enough to contain that much evil.
Canary islands
Gone to the Canary Islands to explore volcanoes, drink wine and stargaze. It rained all day yesterday. Today was rather better.