Harnessing Light and Shadow to Enhance Your Storytelling
Light and shadow are powerful tools in photography, capable of transforming an ordinary scene into a compelling narrative. By understanding how to manipulate light and shadow, you can add depth, mood, and emotion to your images, making your stories more vivid and impactful. Here’s how you can effectively use these elements to tell stronger photographic […]
Four horsemen of viewer’s attention: How to make people look
The photographer’s job resembles that of a magician. We tell our viewers: look right here, here is the hero of this story. A magician will use gestures and attractive assistants to guide their viewers’ attention. We have our own methods. I like calling them the Four Horsemen of Viewer’s Attention. Scale Sharpness Brightness Color The […]
Launch Your Creativity with These Space Crafts!
9 min read Launch Your Creativity with These Space Crafts! In honor of the completion of our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft — the vehicle that will maneuver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function once there — we’re bringing you some space crafts you can complete at home! […]
Enhancing Your Storytelling with Strong Compositional Techniques
Composition is the backbone of photography, determining how the elements within your frame interact to convey a story. A well-composed image can guide the viewer’s eye, create a sense of balance, and emphasize the narrative you wish to tell. In this article, we’ll explore how you can harness the power of composition to enhance your […]
Chief Engineer Dr. Donald Mendoza
“From my earliest childhood, flight had always captivated me. I lived out in the boonies and the farmlands, so I didn’t have neighbors to go and play with. If I wasn’t working, I was left to my own devices, and often, I would just be captivated by the wildlife and in particular, the birds of […]
The Stanley Cup Comes to Kennedy
NASA/Cory S Huston The Stanley Cup, won in 2024 by the Florida Panthers, made a visit to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 17, 2024, as part of its championship tour. The VAB currently houses components of the agency’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path […]
The Science of the Perfect Cup for Coffee
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Research into phase-change material (PCM) options for NASA helped one of the researchers find the ideal material to use in a mug that maintains the ideal temperature of a hot beverage for hours. ThermAvant International now offers mugs and tumblers. Credit: ThermAvant International LLC […]
Watch the trailer for Exploding Kittens
Exploding Kittens will be on Netflix on July 12, 2024 View on my website
Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission is the ninth crew rotation mission […]
JokeBomb – Series One
This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene’s Jeans starring a handsome man named Gene. View on my website