A spooky edge creeps into the mood and the lighting of laboratory spaces when the lights are off and the everyday staff have gone.
Tag: dark
Sinister Ginko
The days just after Thanksgiving hold still, quiet moments; the early morning fog was thick, viscous, and sinister as the fairy tale stuff. The poisonous-looking red berries, the gnarled tree limbs, and the mysterious lamposts all seem plucked from the forests of Fillory. The somewhat shallow depth of field makes it particularly surreal.
Workbench
Today is a travel day for us, so I’ll be pulling an older shot out of the collection. A workbench, mid-job has this wonderful degree of barely ordered chaos. The sense of capability, competency, and potential is heady mix.
Lathelight
Though I posted photographs taken in UC Berkeley’s machine shop before, I keep coming back to its complicated-but-calming tools and machines. The sense of decades-old purpose and function in this lathe sprouts from every scratch and dent.
Decaseconds 