Pictures!

I've decided that today will be picture day for this blog. Some of these pictures are just random, but a lot of them come from a fantastic photojournalism blog called The Big Picture, run by the Boston Globe. It's a perfect example of how to take advantage of the unique opportunities for news offered by the internet, i.e. incredibly detailed, high-resolution photos on an extremely simple website. No obtrusive ads, no complicated interface to navigate, just a page with pictures. Now, with that said, have some pictures!



Remember, you can click on an image to get it in full-size; often I've had to reduce the size to fit it in the blog page.

A puffin hunting lodge in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland

"Robert Stoler pours molten gold into an ingot mold at Dvir & Stoler Refining in New York, U.S." (from Gold at The Big Picture)

A sign of the times...



Solar array panel wings on the International Space Station (from The International Space Station Turns 10 at The Big Picture)

"Installing the ATLAS calorimeter in November of 2005. The eight torodial magnets can be seen on the huge ATLAS detector with the calorimeter before it is moved into the middle of the detector. This calorimeter will measure the energies of particles produced when protons collide in the centre of the detector." Yup, that's calorimeter as in calories, the stuff we eat. They're not specific to food, they're just one unit for measuring energy. (From Large Hadron Collider Ready To Restart at The Big Picture)

"Visitors crowd the Bäurosl beer tent on the second day of the Oktoberfest beer festival on September 20, 2009." (from Oktoberfest, 2009 at The Big Picture)