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| Japan in Florida (infrared 720nm) |
The cleaning industry is fun to write about as a chemistry journalist. Of course, cleaning is a very chemical endeavor, and the companies that make cleaning products are more chemically savvy than most other consumer product firms. But it’s also a consumer-facing market for chemicals, so it has to respond to the changing and sometimes capricious trends emanating from the broad cultural zeitgeist.
That doesn’t quite mean the industry is blown in the wind. It has this demand floor built in, folks will only let their homes and businesses get so dirty. As a result, the cleaning world has some resilience even when economic conditions are hard, as they are now for several regions and economic sectors.
I wrote about all that for C&EN here.
It’s a busy conference, but I snuck in some time to take photos too. I had my infrared-modified Canon M2 and a Canon M50. I want to like the M50, I love its small size and capable video capture. But it struggles in low light and is not fast to operate. I keep devising new tests to find use cases where it makes sense for me, but I may end up selling it. It is a fine camera but it may be redundant with a combo of my phone, M2, and 5DMarkiii.
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| Sunset by the lazy river |
The conference is always at a big hotel resort complex, so even though this was my 5th time in Orlando for the event, I’ve still never seen whatever downtown or actual local culture there might be.
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| Palm Regiment (infrared 720nm) |
Orlando was having a fit of cold weather, iguanas were supposedly falling out of trees because of the chill, so it wasn’t as warm and sunny as it often is. Sunny works well for infrared, but I nonetheless got some surreal photos where the infrared effect makes the textures of the palm leaves pop.
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| Palm Duet (infrared 720nm) |
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| Streamside (infrared 720nm, blues desaturated) |
I’m off next to San Antonio for Pittcon, an analytical instrumentation and methods conference. It’s been drifting more life sciences, which isn’t my bag. But I’ll try to get something for C&EN readers and will almost certainly get some good photos. My hotel is a 13-min stroll along the Riverwalk from the conference center.
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| Goodnight fancy resort |
