Sony Diaries #1000: Super Moon on Jan 1st, 2018

It's been such a long time since I've posted; I only had 17 entries in all of 2017! Well, that is going to change for 2018. This is a resolution that's actually very doable.

Last night, in a relatively mild  -14Celsius, I went out on to the backyard and took these hand-held pics. The sky was cloudy grey, with dark clouds drifting in and out. Whilst I could have waited for a clear shot of the moon with it's craters in sharp relief, I preferred to go the moody route, with a somber mood playing hard to get behind the flowing clouds.

January 1st.

Environmental Portraiture, Aug 2015: Surgeon

Sony Diaries #999: Faces in the water

University of Guelph October 21st.

Sony Diaries #999: Scenes from the 2017 Emma-Rose Gala

 Grenville Pinto

 Grenville Pinto

 Lana Komarnytska

 Camels

 Iana Komarnytska

 Kagutsuchi Itto

 Kagutsuchi Itto

2017 Emma-Rose Gala, October 13th.

Sony Diaries #998: Martin Hairer, Mathematician

It was both a pleasure and a privilege to have been asked to photograph Martin Hairer as the Guest Speaker at the 2017 Fields Institute Symposium. Martin Hairer is a mathematician who seems to have a direct channel of communication with an other worldly intelligence, on the same level as Beethoven, Newton, Mozart. 

I don't understand the mathematics part of these talks but I can comprehend the real world applications of these concepts. This is best explained in Quanta Magazine. Delivered by a genuinely nice, approachable, self-effacing guy, his talk was at once incomprehensible and soothing.

The next day, Hairer gave a talk to students of Mathematics, from high schoolers to university professors.

held informal chats

The whole evening's energy was fuelled by the food of choice of mathematicians: pizza!

October 2017