[Leica] Big Picture scores again - twice

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

With two amazing photo collection the Boston Globe's photo site "Big
Picture" continues to be a fabulous inspiration.

"Lighting up the Night", especially image #21 (the last) really inspires me:

<http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/lighting_up_the_night.html>
or
<http://tinyurl.com/6muynr>

while this collection of Cassini images of the Saturn moon Enceladus
show again that the imaging team running Cassini either are incredibly
lucky or they have a wonderful sense of what is possible, dramatic,
and elegant. I'm thinking it's the latter:

<http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/enceladus_up_close.html>
or
<http://tinyurl.com/6qem36>

And, since I'm pointing to interesting things out on the web, there's
a fascinating article on Ars Technica about plasmons, imaging, and how
nanoparticles correctly sculpted can use light to detect tiny tumors
and even attack them. I recommend the article although it's a bit
dense (or I am)...

<http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/naomi-halas-plasmon-pioneer.ars>
or
<http://tinyurl.com/6x72ty>

If this is too off-topic I apologize but it's optical and there may
well be photographic implications for all of us from this kind of
research. Certainly there are for the medical imaging people!

Adam Bridge