A clutch of 7-Spot Ladybird eggs on a fence post at #WWTCastleEspie.
For scale, the hoop on the right is a standard “U”-nail, about 1.5cm across.
Shot on iPhone XR using Halide Camera app.
This car park serves a small kiddies play area and always floods after any significant rain. It’s been tipping down all day so the sunset was reflected nicely in the water.
Gold Reinvented: Stanford Scientists Uncover Exotic Chemical State in New Material
A form of gold that does not occur stably in nature is at the heart of a new crystalline material with intriguing properties.
Stanford scientists have synthesized a rare form of gold, Au2+, stabilized by halide perovskite, with potential applications in electronics and energy sectors, linking their findings to Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s earlier research. https://scitechdaily.com/gold-reinvented-stanford-scientists-uncover-exotic-chemical-state-in-new-material/#gold#exotic#halide#perovskite
All images are imported as .dng into Lightroom and left as-is except for Halide shots which are all inexplicably overexposed by around 1.5 stops. For those shots, I manually lowered exposure, but left all other sliders where they were.
Halide produces 12 MP images even when I choose 48 MP. iPhone camera produces 48 MP images. Pixel 7 produces 12 MP images. It’s pretty obvious that the “48 MP” and “50 MP” images are synthesized out of binned-pixel 12 MP sensors. The images uploaded here are downscaled to 1080p jpgs using the same Lightroom settings (sRGB, 95% quality).
@drahardja Is the Nikon the most accurate of all? Saw the orange car, compared to #Halide it seems less saturated, but I think the Nikon is the gold standard.
I was sad to have missed the #Galena#Perovskite battle, because I love both of those minerals, but I love ultramafic rocks more, so I'm pleased by the outcome.
Alameda sunset. Went to pickup my son from a friend’s house, and on the drive back the sunset was amazing. Had to pull over, get out of the car and take some sunset photos.
My son picked this one as the best. (I might post the other candidates as replies to this message and see what folks on Mastodon think).