Photography

Taking photos is part of how I report and tell stories. I’ve published dozens of slideshows on energy and technology, built around my own and third-party photos. Sadly, CNET’s ongoing demise means a lot of my previous photos and articles are being lost but I’ve saved some.

My personal photography focuses on birds and nature, which I post on flickr and instagram. Here is a short selection

Loon Island Pond Vermont

Below are some photos I took while a reporter at CNET News and MIT Technology Review and slideshows I put together on energy and technology.

Photos from this year's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
Photos from this year’s ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. Click for full gallery.
A solar farm in southern Colorado I photographed during a fellowship with the Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources. Click to see more photos.
A look at innovations around clean energy at the ARPA-E Summit. Click to see the full slide show.

A solar cell printed onto paper and other material innovations in solar from a visit to MIT’s solar research lab. Click on the image to see the others.

To learn more about how the electric grid works, I took a visit to the New England ISO’s control room. Click on the image to see the full slideshow.
A story about a collective of dairy farms that are turning cow manure into electricity with an anaerobic digester.

One of the many slideshows I’ve done by researching and collecting publicly available photos. This one is on the little-known history of electric vehicles in the U.S.

GE is designing advanced batteries for hybrid train locomotives at its Research Center in upstate New York. Click to see other photos from the lab.

A beam of plasma blasts a metal disk as part of MIT’s nuclear fusion laboratory. Click on the image to hear more about nuclear fusion research.

A PR2 robot at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) tries to bake a cake. Click on the image to see other robotic systems under development at MIT and Harvard.
A photo from a profile of research nuclear reactor in downtown Cambridge on the MIT campus. Click on the image to see the entire slideshow.

Inside a nuclear power plant. A visit with photos to Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Station in New Hampshire.

A photo I took as part of a slideshow on the history of robots.