Photography and physics/statistics

Oak branches, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Neon sky, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

I'm following quite a few photography blogs, and often there are surprising finds, sometimes related to photography going into an unexpected direction and depth, and sometimes not about photography at all but still very interesting. Here are two recent examples:

• Why Icebergs are Blue is a great essay written by Mark Dubovoy.
• Quality Control, American Style gives a statistician's (angry) view on the matter of peanut butter and salmonella outbreaks, thought provoking writing by Paul Maxim.

The photo shown here was taken today. A rare thing for me, but I felt that this works best as a black and white version. Not very original, but there was something fascinating about the three oaks.

Update: I added another photo, to show the nice sky we had today after sunset - even though the sun was not visible because of the thick cloud cover, some of the colors got through.