Blog archive for ‘photography’

Digital Moments

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 at 10:25 pm by Jacqueline

Captured digitally…

A few moments from my life since July:

wisconsin blue skies, puffy clouds, sunny day, corn fields and a red barn

Driving through Wisconsin.

a bunch of power lines criss-crossing in the air above a street

A street in Somerville.

slow lapping waves on a quiet lake beach at twilight

Michigan lakeside.

puffy cheery yellow tree in front of a brick building, nice contrast

View from the Media Lab building.

ladybug cookies: pink and chocolate dough, chocolate chip spots

Ladybug cookies!

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Indiana: Winter, Spring

Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 11:33 am by Jacqueline

A selection of photos: Winter

tree, sky, snow on the ground, shadows

Sunny days and snowy grounds

bicycle leaned against a porch, layers of snow on the handlebars, seat, and tires

Not really bicycle weather

stump, bent-over plant, car, houses, all smothered in a layer of snow

A snowed-over parking lot

dimmer evening sun shining through dark snow-covered trees

Evening sun through the trees

A selection of photos: The start of spring

curly purple flowers, green stems and leaves, brick wall behind

Curly purple flowers

daffodils in front of a brick wall

Daffodils

half a fluffy pancake and maple syrup on a plate, with a fork resting tines-down on a bite of pancake

Fluffy pancake and maple syrup

streaks of colored sky glowing behind the bare branches of dark trees

No leaves yet

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Photography project

Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 9:22 am by Jacqueline
pink clouds spread across a pastel sky, smoke rising below from masaya volcano, lit from the last sunlight of the day

Sunset over Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua

I’ve posted a decent number of photos over the years — nearly every photo on this website is one I’ve taken. While one could feasibly wander back through my archives to view them, I decided to spare one the trouble.

I’ve collected a comprehensive list of my photography-themed posts. I have yet to add a complete gallery of all the photos I’ve ever posted, but that’s in the works.

New to your eyes, dear reader, is the special section on the Vassar Palmer Gallery exhibit Through the Student Lens, which featured two of my photos!

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Watching leaves turn

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at 11:11 pm by Jacqueline

View from the room

During my senior year at Vassar, I periodically took photos through my bedroom window of the trees and the courtyard area between all the senior apartments.

The end result? This series, showing the seasons changing throughout the year. Photos are unedited.

trees are still green!

September 10, 2010

mostly green still!

October 8, 2010

rainy day

October 15, 2010

trees are turning red, carpet of yellow leaves

October 26, 2011

two days later: half the leaves are gone!

October 28, 2010

it was a blustery day - red leaves in the air

October 28, 2010

carpet of brown and red leaves, bare branches

November 5, 2010

bare branches, red tree behind, blue-gray clouded sky

November 17, 2010

First snow! Some ground still visible, pale clear sky

December 15, 2010

old snow everywhere, gray skies

January 11, 2011

fresh snow storm! everything is white

January 12, 2011

one of those rainy snow-slush days

January 18, 2011

even in winter with the ground covered in snow, there are blue skies sometimes!

January 25, 2011

tired of snow yet? a nice bright sunny day

February 10, 2011

the world has melted! gray spring day, still bare branches

March 11, 2011

evening light-rimmed clouds behind the branches of the trees

March 11, 2011

grey spring day, but at least there's some green on the shrubs!

April 13, 2011

that's more like it: buds and leaves on the trees, green grass, blue sky with puffy white clouds

April 29, 2011

the same beautiful spring day: it's all sunshine and puppies!

April 29, 2011

If I did this kind of series again, I’d make a point of putting the camera in the same place every time, and taking photos at set intervals. I think it still turned out pretty cool.

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Trip to Wallops

Sunday, July 24th, 2011 at 11:53 am by Jacqueline

Wallops photos!

Earlier this month, everyone in my lab took a trip to NASA Wallops Flight Facility and Assateague State Park to test GROVER2 on the beach. There’s a video of some of the lab’s preparations over on Geeked on Goddard – take a look!

Although I’m not specifically working on GROVER2 (I’m working on the LIDAR-assisted robotic group exploration project, as briefly mentioned earlier), it was a good trip. A few photos:

wall of old DOS computers, monitors, drawers, printers, cables

A control center we saw while touring the Wallops facilities

a large pumpkin-shaped, translucent balloon

One of the ballons constructed by the Wallops balloon program researchers

tall backlit tree with evening clouds and sky in the background

We spent the night at Wallops; I spent three minutes outside taking photos of the sky and was biten at least five times by mosquitos

pastel beach and ocean with the glowing morning sun

We were on the beach bright and early! I took a bunch of photos of the sunrise.

tracks in the sand made by GROVER2's tank treads

GROVER2's first field tests on the beach.

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Fencing, thesis, snow

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 at 12:01 pm by Jacqueline

A new semester…

Long time, no writing — it’s the start of a new semester (my last semester!) and I’ve been busy with a number of different things:three VC women\'s foilists sitting in green chairs, backs to the camera

  1. The VC Women’s Fencing team. We’re in full competition mode. We conquered in Cleveland recently, vanquished difficult foes at Brown University, and are gearing up for a big match at Wellesley next Sunday, which will decide whether we claim the Northeast Conference Championship this year!
  2. My undergraduate cognitive science thesis. I’m looking at the emergent behavior of a group of simulated prey robots that can communicate with each other about the presence of a predator. I have questions about communication, environment, and motivation. Being a year-long project, I’m supposedly halfway through, though in reality, it’s not so clear-cut. I spent all summer reading papers and doing background research, filled last semester with hypotheses, possible architectures, and more background research, wrote up a first draft this winter break, and am now hard at work on the simulation itself.
  3. Taking photos of the weather. An unusually large amount of snow has fallen at Vassar — what better to do than document it with a camera? (Click for larger versions.)
  4. snow-covered lake, blue skies, sunshine

    Sunset Lake II

    dark trees, branches laden with clumps of snow

    Snow Forest

    a flock of round picnic tables, cream-colored umbrellas shading benches of snow, with the buildings of Cleveland rising in the background

    Winter Picnic

  5. Figuring out my post-graduation life. On the advice of many folks, I’m not heading immediately to grad school. My enthusiasm for learning, research, and knowledge hasn’t vanished — quite the contrary. I’m going to spend at least a year exploring the places outside the classroom, longer depending on where I end up. Academia-land? The wide world beyond? Still up in the air.
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Autumn Colors

Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 12:10 pm by Jacqueline

Which is your favorite season?

Usually, I can’t decide. But when my Hudson valley campus is decked out in full-blown autumn colors, my vote swings in favor of chill fall air, feet crunching through drifts of leaves, and myriad shades of red, brown, orange, and yellow.

Yes, I do, on occasion, meander across campus with my camera. Click for the larger versions!

glossy lake reflecting the bushy lines of green, yellow, orange, and red trees on the far bank

Sunset Lake

large tree, half covered in red-orange leaves

View from the room

a dark branch silhouetted in front of autumn-colored trees

Branch of doom

sunlight makes a red-leaved tree glow at the side of grey apartments

Red glow tree

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