photography

  • Tonight’s Saturn

    Tonight’s Saturn

    You guys are probably wondering where I’ve been, huh? For the better part of this year, I’ve been hard at work at my novel, at the expense of pretty much everything else — and I’m pleased to report it’s almost…

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  • How Lightning Strikes

    How Lightning Strikes

    There’s a saying that “lightning strikes whatever’s tallest.” But this is only partly true. Tall objects do attract lightning bolts, but there’s a second condition for lightning to strike: electrical conductivity. Meaning, a lightning bolt will only strike an object…

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  • The Hubble Space Telescope

    The Hubble Space Telescope

    The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous telescopes in the world. Oops, excuse me — one of the most famous telescopes built. Hubble, after all, is certainly not in this world. Unless you call the universe the “world,”…

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  • Telescope Imaging Systems

    Telescope Imaging Systems

    Have you ever seen an image like this? Okay, maybe you have…online. What with the spread of the internet these days, I’m guessing that at one point you have seen something like this on a page of image search results.…

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  • Sunrise in Flagstaff

    It’s 5:00 am and I’m up ungodly early to photograph the sunrise for a school assignment. So I figured I’d blog about it. Because, why not? 4:50: Okay, I’m up. Why do I have to be up so freaking early…

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