Fermilab’s natural areas sometimes need some quiet time, too. Photo: Steve Krave, TD
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A flock of grackles flies over the bison farm. Photo: Steve Krave, TD
Steve Krave, TD, captured these images of “Mobius Strip” (top) and Industrial Building 1 (middle) directly using an old flatbed scanner and an added lens-bellows assembly (bottom). He put the lens assembly together with spare parts and hot glue. The setup is similar to old large-format cameras (but this uses much more duct tape). Photos: Steve Krave, TD
In these photos, taken with an infrared-modded camera, visible light shows as blue and infrared light shows as white. Photos: Steve Krave, TD
Sean Johnson, TD, used Fermilab’s 3-D printer to make this model of a strand of Nb3Sn wire, which he then spray-painted. Photo: Steve Krave, TD In 2008, Mauricio Lopes, an associate scientist in the Technical Division, started to build a model of a helical solenoid out of cardboard in order to prove a design concept. The process was painstakingly slow: In a week, he and Miao Yu, a mechanical engineer from TD, had finished only four rings. So Lopes thought…
A heron sits atop a leafless tree on the Fermilab grounds. Photo: Steve Krave, TD
This composite of 214 images taken over 18 minutes shows the flashes of fireflies. Each yellow spot is a single firefly flash. The occasional dashed line is a firefly that was in motion when the photo was taken. Photo: Steve Krave, TD
A wood duck in Big Woods splashes its way out of the water. Photo: Steve Krave, TD
An egret snuck up behind two turtles sitting on a log in a lake by Wilson Hall last week. A few seconds after this photo was taken, the egret pushed the turtles into the water. Photo: Steve Krave, TD Bison follows calf follows egret. The bison are not tempted to follow the example of the uncharitable egret of the lake. Photo: Steve Krave, TD
“Mobius Strip” shimmers at night. Photo: Steve Krave, TD