Frost on the window

A winter image to celebrate the new year. And a vain hope that I will be more diligent with my updates next year.

November

One of those dreary November mornings with a cold drizzle and the clouds so low that they hang like soggy cotton-candy on the skyscrapers. On the way to work I took a few pictures of the people hurrying through the rain to work. It's the days that makes me think about Tom Waits song November... "November's cold chain / Made of wet boots and rain" and "Get word to April / To rescue me"

Graves at the cemetery in Sadyba

The local cemetery in Sadyba is quite small, but very densly "populated", if that word is allowed. This picture was taken with a tele-lens standing on the wall surrounding the cemetery. It was inspired in part by Andreas Feininger's amazing "Masses of tombstones in cemetery in Queens." (below) Of course the cemetery in Sadyba is tiny compared to the one in that photo. And I also did not have a 40-inch objective available...*


*BTW I don't think running around on roof-tops in NY with that camera post-9/11 is a good idea...

Gold particles

A picture from work. This shows dendrites of gold nanoparticles. The tree-like structures were formed when a homogeneous layer of nanoparticles were moved by the surface tension of an evaporating liquid. The picture was taken using dark field microscopy in polarised light. The shiny part up in the left corner are crystals of KCl. The whole image is about 1 mm across.
A bonus image below from another part of the sample.

The iron bridge and the stadium

The new national stadium is taking shape. This brigde is one of my favourite bridges. I love the classic heavy iron bars, the rivets and the specks of rust. More pictures of this are on Flickr.

Post no 100

Post number 100 on this blog. It started as me trying to document what I saw around me in general. Over time it developed more into trying to put more interesting photos there. So far The 100 posts have contained 111 images. They are all seen in the mosaic above or in the album here.

I guess I just have to keep going.

Żelazowa Wola

This weekend we went to see the newly renovated birth-house of Frederyk Chopin in Żelazowa Wola just outside Warsaw. The park is very nice, as is the new visitors centre and resturant. However, it's a bit empty... especially the house itself, in the picture.

Dawn's early light

Yesterday morning I saw this lovely dawn through the window. The display of colours lasted only a few minutes as the sun shone in under the clouds. Just enough time to take a few pictures and relax and enjoy the show for a while.

Weddingparty

Was at a real traditional wedding party on the Polish countryside last weekend. This of course included a lot of dancing.

Electrode cleaning

One of the more boring things to do in electrochemistry is cleaning electrodes. With gold and glassy carbon electrode it means polishing a long long time. A platinum counter electrode is easier; you just burn off the dirt. Above cobalt, and below sodium from salt probably after touching it with the fingers.