I’m in a textbook.  Yup – one of those expensive things that you’re required to buy, that took three trees to make, and that you will resell for 20% of what you paid.  This particular textbook is called Marketing by McGraw Hill and I contributed to the social media chapter.  I took all of the [...]

A few days ago a purchased a bismuth crystal off of eBay for pretty cheap.  Bismuth is a grey metal with a few interesting properties.  In addition to being the active ingredient in Pepto Bismol, when it is cooled slowly, it forms square spirals in a stair-stepped shape.  During this process, it forms an oxide layer that causes interference  with reflected light [...]

Here is a gallery of macro photography that I’ve been working on.  I don’t use a proper macro lens.  Instead, I use a macro adaptor as well as a cheap metal ring that allows me to mount my lenses on backwards.  (I know it sounds odd, but search Amazon.com for “reverse lens mount” and you’ll [...]

Photos from my trip to Watkins Glen State Park just south of late Seneca.  From Wikipedia:”Watkins Glen State Park is in a 400-foot-deep (120 m) narrow gorge cut through rock by a stream that was left hanging when glaciers of the Ice age deepened the Seneca valley, increasing the tributary stream gradient to create rapids [...]

While exploring campus last night, I found that Sage Chapel was still open, even though it was somewhere between 9:00 and 9:30 PM.  I walked inside and after letting my eyes adjust to nearly compete darkness, I realized that no one else was around.  So, I did the logical thing and grabbed my camera, tripod, [...]

This evening I spent some time walking around campus and taking photos of the University at night.  I used my Canon 5D Mark II with either my 50 f/1.4 Sigma lens or my 24-105 f/3 L Canon for the job.  In both cases, I had to use a tripod and a remote trigger to get [...]

On Monday, the crew from Token Media came stopped by to film a video case for McGraw Hill’s newest edition (in production) of their textbook Marketing.  They spent most of the day with us, filming interviews and gathering footage of us working.  The final product will be a ~10 minute video included along with the [...]

I just got back from finding a place to live in Ithaca, NY.  Apparently it was Ithaca Fest 2011. A brief description of the city from Wikipedia: The city of Ithaca, named for the Greek island of Ithaca, is a city in upstate New York and the county seat of Tompkins County, as well as [...]

I went back to Ithaca, NY a few days ago and took a few photos worth sharing of Cornell University