I've gotten in pretty good with the Agrilife department at A&M, they keep hiring me to come take pictures at events. I had a gig yesterday, and another today at 10:30 actually, with Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics.
Yesterday I got to follow her around a campus tour where she gave a speech to the local USDA, met with student workers, and got a behind the scenes look at the management meetings at the Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, here in College Station.
Most of the pictures are fairly boring and just consist of her talking and/or meeting with people but I did manage to get a bit artsy in between shots.
Walkin' in High Cotton. by cameronlgott, on Flickr
It only gets cooler, after that meeting I went with them to the National Center for Electron Beam and Space Food Research - Food Technology Facility on campus. Which was VERY cool, because first off, I didn't even know it existed, and second I got a private tour where I learned that 90% of all space food is made right there on campus at Texas A&M. The International Space Station is being fed strictly by Aggies.
Sadly, I don't have any "cool" pictures from the food tour, just a bunch of her talking to the guy that runs the place. However, it didn't stop there!
We got a pretty exclusive tour of the electron beam, which was WAY cool. They shut the plant down and took us into the belly of the beast, talk about creepy and awesome. We got to see the entire facility, even where the beams do their job, nothing like taking a stairway down under the ground with a sign that clearly reads "Grave Danger - Do Not Enter" on the door, in a tiny little hallway with 14 foot walls on each side!
I'm rambling now, I'll just let the pictures do the talking. I'd love to get a chance to go back and get more pictures focusing on the facility and less focused on the meeting. When I'm getting paid to take pictures of something I try not to stray from the subject matter too much.
I thought this was funny, this is the machine that makes electrons into awesomeness. It uses floppy disks!
Electron Beams Use Floppy Discs? by cameronlgott, on Flickr
Hoses.
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
There were meters galore! I was keeping my eye on the lights throughout the trip, if they turned red...we were dead.
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
This is the conveyor belt that lives inside the beam chamber...we had 6 people down in their, it was pretty tight so I couldn't get a lot of cool shots.
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
This is the machine that makes the beam, and the guy who is the head of the facility. I'm not sure if he invented it or not, but he is pretty much a genius.
Another situation where I wish there would have been more space inside of this chamber, the shot was tight, it was dark, but I did what I could with it.
"Frickin' Lazer Beams"
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
That's all I've got for now, I'll try to post more tomorrow when I finish editing them.
Gig 'em!
Yesterday I got to follow her around a campus tour where she gave a speech to the local USDA, met with student workers, and got a behind the scenes look at the management meetings at the Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, here in College Station.
Most of the pictures are fairly boring and just consist of her talking and/or meeting with people but I did manage to get a bit artsy in between shots.
Walkin' in High Cotton. by cameronlgott, on Flickr
It only gets cooler, after that meeting I went with them to the National Center for Electron Beam and Space Food Research - Food Technology Facility on campus. Which was VERY cool, because first off, I didn't even know it existed, and second I got a private tour where I learned that 90% of all space food is made right there on campus at Texas A&M. The International Space Station is being fed strictly by Aggies.
Sadly, I don't have any "cool" pictures from the food tour, just a bunch of her talking to the guy that runs the place. However, it didn't stop there!
We got a pretty exclusive tour of the electron beam, which was WAY cool. They shut the plant down and took us into the belly of the beast, talk about creepy and awesome. We got to see the entire facility, even where the beams do their job, nothing like taking a stairway down under the ground with a sign that clearly reads "Grave Danger - Do Not Enter" on the door, in a tiny little hallway with 14 foot walls on each side!
I'm rambling now, I'll just let the pictures do the talking. I'd love to get a chance to go back and get more pictures focusing on the facility and less focused on the meeting. When I'm getting paid to take pictures of something I try not to stray from the subject matter too much.
I thought this was funny, this is the machine that makes electrons into awesomeness. It uses floppy disks!
Electron Beams Use Floppy Discs? by cameronlgott, on Flickr
Hoses.
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
There were meters galore! I was keeping my eye on the lights throughout the trip, if they turned red...we were dead.
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
This is the conveyor belt that lives inside the beam chamber...we had 6 people down in their, it was pretty tight so I couldn't get a lot of cool shots.
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
This is the machine that makes the beam, and the guy who is the head of the facility. I'm not sure if he invented it or not, but he is pretty much a genius.
Another situation where I wish there would have been more space inside of this chamber, the shot was tight, it was dark, but I did what I could with it.
"Frickin' Lazer Beams"
Electron Beam and Space Food Research / Food Technology Facility by cameronlgott, on Flickr
That's all I've got for now, I'll try to post more tomorrow when I finish editing them.
Gig 'em!
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