Fun with snow and macro photos 3/5/13

Snow Macro 3/5/13, a set on Flickr.

Get Photos Sent Directly From Mars to Your Phone

From Wired Science blogs:

Text messaging and e-mail is so yesterday. Why not use your smartphone to get pictures from the surface of another planet? 

The Mars Images app fetches images from the NASA Opportunity rover’s latest downlink as soon as they’re available. On Mars since 2004, Opportunity has far exceeded its planned mission life and is still making groundbreaking discoveries, such as the recent unambiguous evidence that water once flowed on Mars. 

Developed by computer scientist Mark Powell of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the app also allows you to browse older photos from the rover’s archive. It is free and available for both iPhone/iPad and Android phones. 

NASA will add the image archive from Opportunity’s twin, the now defunct Spirit rover, in later versions of the app. The agency is also planning to release a similar app for the Mars Science Laboratory, once it gets on the ground and starts snapping photos in August.

via @JenLucPiquant

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/ASU

I made a book!

Two years after returning from a semester in Italy, I have finally finished my first photography book, entitled "Postcards From Italy."




The book includes 18 photos from my adventures in Italy, as well as text from my travel journal. It is now available for full preview and purchase through Blurb.




Let me know what you think!

Fischer Packing Slaughterhouse 20 to the Tunes of Sleeping Pill-Terrastock Ky

Terrastock 7 took place in Louisville in June 2008 on the site of an old slaughterhouse and meat packing plant. The majority of the plant has been transformed into a very cool artist space full of funky studios, galleries, and performance spaces.

Most of the slaughterhouse is still standing untouched. Here it is on a wet, cloudy Kentucky day. The soundtrack to my photo shoot was Sleeping Pill (the front 2/3 of Yo La Tengo)