Not ’cause of winter temperatures, but this blog is frozen from this moment on. Because a week ago I found a new photoblog “in qualche angolo dell’universo” (in any part of universe) that you are all invited to visit.
I hope this change can re-improve my photo-life.

From now PhotoniKBlog has an Flickr account where I’ll upload some of my favorite pictures when these are slightly too much numerous
First set of these are for the celebration at Circo Massimo (Rome) for the Italy’s win of Football World Championship 2006 in Germany, here.

Are these eyes full of fear? Or do they give an inquiring look to the fogs of time? A weak light reveals the gentle shapes of a face, while the glance is more intense, thanks to the dark.

[Attention: if you can’t see anything above it depends on brightness of your monitor. Please grow it near maximum]

She is my friend and she is the girl with which I have studied astronomy until yesterday. Her name is Silvia and she has taken 30/30 like me. But it wasn’t sure that we would have obtained a such good result. Then, before the exam, her eyes were full of doubts like mine.

This afternoon I’ve taken 30/30 in Astronomy’s exam. To celebrate this I publish a portion of the blackboard of an University room when, exactly 2 weeks ago, I lectured on tensorial formalism in relativistic electrodynamics…
Note the gauge transformation and the power of electromagnetic tensor that show how electric and magnetic fields are a single physical object.

These occasional lectures of mine are intended as a complement to Prof. Remo Ruffini’s class on theoretical physics (he is a scientist that is like a mentor to me).

Technically this photo is taken in a room but without flash with an exposure of 1/3 seconds and ISO-50. After shooting I’ve erased all blue dominance (probably due to sky’s light coming from the window) by turning on black-white the color method since the only relevant colors are black (the blackboard) and white (the chalk).

Today I’ve learn to use the Macro and Super Macro functions. Taking close-up pictures of small things is called “macro photography” and allow to see a large number of small particulars. Like my stone-made turtle called “Rughy” framed in my Zen garden made of white sand:

Meanwhile I was taking the picture, she (the turtle) was climbing a fragment of solid lava coming from Mt. Etna (Sicily).

The following is the same picture blowed up. One can touch the power of Macro and 5Mega pixels that allow to see some Rughy age wrinkles and some grains of sand with a great definition:

Today is the first day of life of this blog. It’s born the same day when I have bought my first digital camera: a Konica Minolta Dimage G530. Remember this day!

To celebrate this event, she (the camera) would like to photograph herself. She’s vain. That’s the photonik result: