Yourong Frank Wang

Category: Photo Journals

  • FW’s Cucumber Page (Southern Autumn 2021)

    I saw my first (male) cucumber flower today, and thought it’s a good opportunity to document the growth of an organism that remains a strong contender the title of “Most Productive Organism in My Room“.

    Of course, if somebody determines that I am worthy of an ICBM strike or explosive seashell, those photos might disclose my precise location too.

    • May 18 2021, First Flower

    • April 24 2021, Support Structure Established

    • April 7 2021, Transplanted into a Dedicated Medium-Sized Flower Pot

    • March 12 2021, Seed Germinated in an Office Flower Pot During Previous COVID-19 Lockdown

    Early days

    For this period the plant lived in an old iPod box. Minimum care was provided except for occasional movements chasing the sun when I am in office.

    Also for the first while I thought it was a watermelon … after the first two real leaves developed, I thought it was rather a pumpkin.

    • First day back to office after lockdown

    Gaining Momentum

    In April I bought for the plant a small pot and applied to use the university’s compost.

    • First night in “big” pot
    • Moving back to department
    • Living at department of physics.
    • Cucumber with my peas and failed brogle.
    A time lapse over a few hours on April 7.

    Amateur botany and biophysics musings

    The tendrils have been captivating my mind every morning I checked on them … A complex mechanism of hydraulics and hormonal regulation, I vaguely understand.

    Recent Productivity

  • [Lux] Sports Cars, Speed Graphics, and Shiny Metal Fetishisation at 2021 Auckland Starship Car Show

    Starship Supercars Show 2021

  • [Lux] A Cinematic Color Experimentation

    I know, I know. Being cinematic is much more than cutting your full-frame photos into widescreen. Here’s a try nonetheless.

  • [Lux] Fun with a Spherical Lens

  • [Lux] #ThatWanakaTree, Day to Night

    Finally.

    When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
    When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
    When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
    When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
    How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
    Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
    In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
    Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

    Walt Whitman

  • [Lux] Beginning of 2021 in Abel Tasman National Park

    • My first proper LMC photo.
    • A ray of sorts being very close to us.
    • Glow worms at dusk
    • A friendly insect
    • Kiwi leaf voronoi

    My first visit to this area was 360 days ago. Before the following becomes too much of a trite thing to say, I thought of the future quite differently back then. I’m happy with the current path via which things unfolded, of course.

  • Jupiter and Saturn, Night (0)

    Doing “astrophotography” in New Zealand for the past while has definitely been character building: the composure and patience required to stand on the beach for half an hour waiting for a gap in the clouds do not come naturally to me.