University – Decaseconds

Lights of the Ready Campus

2022-Aug-222022-Aug-21 adohertyhLeave a comment

I’ll be teaching my first class of the Fall 2022 semester tomorrow morning, so today seemed like the perfect day to reflect on the campus to which I’m returning. The structures amidst the trees sure look good from 100 meters up.

This image also brings up an interesting note on aspect ratios: Since the start of Decaseconds, I’ve largely been formatting my very favorite images in a 1.6:1 (i.e., 16:10) aspect ratio, such that they’d function well as desktops for my various MacBook Pro laptops. The advent of the “notch” and associated added screen real estate means that new MBPs have a 1.547:1 ratio—and thus my favorite images (like this one) are arriving with a new aspect ratio.

Dorm View of Fireworks

2022-Jun-13 adohertyhLeave a comment

A full-scale fireworks display is usually “far away”—over a park or a body of water, perhaps. When St. Lawrence University puts on a fireworks show for graduation, however, the fireworks are right on campus. Imagine watching that show from your dorm-room window!

Firework Shadows

2022-Jun-032022-Jun-02 adohertyhLeave a comment

Fireworks are lovely displays of chemistry and physics in action on their own, of course, but there’s an extra dimension of enjoyment from being part of a crowd and feeling the shared excitement.

Commencement 2022 Fireworks

2022-May-232022-May-22 adohertyhLeave a comment

Congratulations to St. Lawrence University’s Class of 2022, who graduated yesterday. Celebrations on campus included this fireworks display. Huge arcs of chemical light across the sky look particularly appropriate over Johnson Hall—the chemistry (and biology) building.

Night Walk Home in Spring

2022-May-02 adohertyhLeave a comment

Walking home through the blue hour at the height of spring, the momentarily deserted campus made me feel as though I’d passed into some alternate fey dimension—as though I might emerge at some radically different position in time or space.

Outdoor and Indoor Dining

2022-Feb-092022-Feb-08 adohertyhLeave a comment

Is lunch better taken beneath the golden leaves of a tree in the open air, or inside a dining hall filled with friendly faces? The answer all depends on the season.

Nap Beneath a Tree

2022-Jan-31 adohertyhLeave a comment

Does anything say “college life” more than an afternoon nap in the sunshine beneath autumn foliage?

ODY in B&W

2021-Oct-01 adohertyhLeave a comment

I recently returned to this shot from 2015 to reprocess the original raw for a calendar of B&W images for St. Lawrence. While it may not have Iwan Baan‘s level of people in the image, the bicycle adds a nice sense of quiet, human scale to the setting.

July 4th Special

2021-Jul-04 adohertyhLeave a comment

An Independence Day special: Fireworks in San Francisco, seen from across the Bay in Berkeley.

South Campus Super Resolution

2021-Apr-232021-Apr-21 adohertyhLeave a comment

The “let’s enhance” action continues with this image of Berkeley’s College of Chemistry, Strawberry Canyon, and South Campus from the top of the Campanile. It holds a special place in my heart because it shows the entire terrain I traversed going to and from work during my first year in grad school.

That Campus Glow

2021-Apr-192021-Apr-17 adohertyhLeave a comment

St. Lawrence’s campus emits white light at night, while Park Street uses orange sodium lamps.

Filters on a Shelf

2021-Apr-162021-Apr-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

A well-stocked and well-arranged chemistry lab tends to accumulate localized collections of one specific part that wind up looking like a page from a scientific supplies catalog.

Larry’s View

2021-Apr-142021-Apr-13 adohertyhLeave a comment

The most senior faculty member in St. Lawrence University’s Department of Chemistry is preparing to retire and I selected this image to present to him. (Shhh, keep it a secret for a few more days.) He often looks out from Johnson Hall of Science, the building in the foreground, north towards the older parts of campus (like the chapel spire above the horizon.) In this image, I hopefully captured for him both where he stands and what he sees so that he can take them with him when he goes.