{"id":8050,"date":"2010-09-28T10:10:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T17:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T17:10:53","slug":"one-hundred-millionth-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/09\/28\/one-hundred-millionth-of-a-second\/","title":{"rendered":"One hundred millionth of a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A very short exposure.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Harold Edgerton&#8217;s high speed (more correctly &#8216;short exposure&#8217;) photography is well known.  Who is not familiar with his pictures of bullets piercing apples and inflated balloons?<\/p>\n<p>The picture below is different.  It&#8217;s the simultaneously cruelly ugly and strangely alluring image of the early stages of an atomic bomb explosion.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Edgerton_Bomb.jpg\" width=\"519\" height=\"666\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Atomic blast.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The exposure was on a special camera using an optical shutter tuned to one hundred millionth of a second.  You can read the complete story <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/pictureshow\/2010\/09\/28\/130183266\/abomb?ft=1&#038;f=1047 target=_blank>here<\/a> &#8211; the Flash images will not display on an iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very short exposure. Harold Edgerton&#8217;s high speed (more correctly &#8216;short exposure&#8217;) photography is well known. Who is not familiar with his pictures of bullets piercing apples and inflated balloons? The picture below is different. It&#8217;s the simultaneously cruelly ugly and strangely alluring image of the early stages of an atomic bomb explosion. Atomic blast. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/09\/28\/one-hundred-millionth-of-a-second\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One hundred millionth of a second<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8053,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}