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It was a pleasure connecting with you in SF. Thanks for doing the photo walk and introducing me to Irving Penn. Can’t wait for more videos!

The images of Ed White doing an EVA are incredible. Imagine being one of the first couple of people to ever do that? To see earth from that view moving at 17,000 MHP and “floating” above the earth in space in 1965. I wish that could have been me!

Good Day. Excellent. My son and I stood on the spot where the Trinity Site Tower once stood. We visited the site on the 50th anniversary of the "Trinity" test. I've never seen this picture of the tower as it is actually in the process of being Disintegrated. Going there was one of my "bucket list items". I was born in 1952. I just found your site and the photos are fascinating. I subscribed. Thank You.

Just in case. Your video extremely over-sharpened

I never go for my weekly food for thought at Alex's place and come away hungry! 🙂 Thanks and cheers from DownUnder 🦘

I feel the same way! As a woman, you must have a unique perspective.

Try Budapest!

I think they are beautiful. Stirs my patriotic soul.

The very young Lartigue, firing his box camera at floor level, would endorse this video. See: "In My Bedroom, Collection of my Racing Cars, Paris, 1905"

I, too, have been fascinated by the high speed images, rapatronic cameras that Edgerton created. I had a job interview with EG&G in LV. While waiting, I noticed a 6 up set of images that started at the first glow of the fision detonation, through to the final image showing the structure fully engulfed in the plasma fireball. You could see the rope trick effects following cables to the ground over the structure. It was both eerie to look at and the 'beauty' of this millisecond event. I've not since, seen this series. Scientifically, it showed fireball structure. As photography goes, there existed a strange beauty with a wonderful range of densities. I believe that Edgerton was principle in the detonator triggers for the early nuclear devices. This was from his development of strobe devices. At RIT, we had a lab dedicated to stroboscopic imaging, such as the bullet fired through the apple.

The narrator for the fan film sounds like Richard Feynman

The photographer's countdown would be: 11, 8, 5.6, 4, 2.8, 2, 1.8, 1.2 - if your wealthy; bang!

Carl Sagan said the high speed photos of the Trinity test looked like an embryo. In the book, Cosmos.

There is definitely an art to both science and technology. Science to the consummate scientist is the art of incremental understanding and technology to the consummate engineer is the art of incremental enablement. Science raised to an art is clearer and simpler; technology raised to an art is polished and intuitive.

I think the story of Vivian Maier touches a very important matter: that many of us have a different 'spare' person hiding inside. A car mechanic that could be a film director. A barber who could make a good therapist. A factory worker able to write a good story. The problem is most people do not let this other person inside be free. Miss Maier apparently had succeeded in that...

How many times does he need to tell us he is a child of the 80s? Also very slow talker, I had to watch it at x2 speed.

The milk drop image inspired Salvador Dali’s “Milk Crown” signature

One of your best videos 👍 Not that it should matter, per what this video explains 😅

The photowalk tour was very fun. Any time Alex has an event in your city, you NEED to go! I'm glad you came to San Francisco and enjoyed our city, hope you return at some point!

The best thing about transitioning from film to digital for me was being free to take as many pictures as I want. I keep it minimal, though...As I also quickly learned going through 100+ images and picking out 5 is a chore.

Yes, artistic, for the very reasons you give.

Derivative circuitry of Doc Edgertons strobe technology were used as the triggering system of the bombs themselves. His company E G and G made nuclear bomb parts for years.

Thank you for your input on this topic ! Its truly fantastic and is helping understand Egglestons work a little bit more! To simply just enjoy photography and if we are lucky possibly convey a message, emotion or simply create art!

Your language only works for those who are feelers like you, kinaesthetic types . For the others it's probably all foreign . I imagine both types listen to your channel but for different reasons. Great discussions though as it applies to many things but it's all derived from the viewer and not so much the item under observation. You talked about the atomic bomb in another podcast and art . I believe science becomes art when there is emotion involved , a sense of beauty or ugliness, or any emotion evoking experience. The atomic bomb as is the Saturn five launches are two of those captures that many people agree invokes emotions .

Your squares with slanting content, usually architectural, are almost location independent. All you need are a few buildings or a few edges of some kind. You do not even have to leave your kitchen. If that is your favorite style, LA, SF, NY simply do not really matter. You might, however, have a bit of a problem on the moon. I do my squares as a sort of artistic extra. I usually do them after I have captured the vista or whatever I happen to have in my viewfinder in the more or less "standard" picture-postcard manner. So the location or venue is more important to me and probably has more influence.

I had that book. I can't tell you how many times I read through it. Had a few others in that series too. I think they were in history and other topics. I was also a child of the late 70s and 80s, btw.

fascinating

Excellent video Alex, as usual. However, My comment is not about the video, but about the cat's collar. In my opinion (I've had many cats, I know what I'm talking about) it's a bit too tight (just the impression watching the video, but if you can insert two fingers between the collar and cat's neck, then it's fine), please consider making it wider, thank you. :-)

I think the nuclear detonations at a millionth of a second is fascinating, but I am a child of the fifties. Boooorrrnnn in the fiiifffftiiiesss.

Am I right(or wrong) to assume these were taken with a Ricoh GR? They look great!

I second that ,you nailed it gen x

This is off topic but it struck me as I watched this video. The short clip during this video where a narrator was talking about fan blade cutting through a smoke stream brought back memories of this narrator who was used for many informational type short films of late 1930's to around 1960 when you didn't hear him any longer. This narrator had a somewhat unique American accent that wasn't all that common but you'd still hear it when was growing up in the 1950's and 60's but this American accent has completely disappeared in todays US and the only reason I wrote this ws because I fully remember some people sounding this way besides this particular narrator which I remember him well.

Looking through fresh eyes. What I find is going somewhere different that is not familiar it is easier to see compositions for I suspect one main reason familiarity when the same scenes or perspective leads to the mind becoming far too numb.

Very interesting video! Indeed, changing places generates a different type of "flow", which in the "worst case" leads to some nice touristy pictures, and in the best case to much more. As you showed. Anyway, it is a pleasure seeing your impressions of SF and having been able to be one of the conversation partners!

Poland! We are going to be there the end of July

Next time you come to Maryland, Come in May or October. It is delightful during those months.

Indeed, getting out of my normal track physically gets me out of my mental track as well.