Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Sarah and I am a biochemistry Ph.D student who lives in Boulder, CO. You may be wondering why this is called “Potassium Photography” and not “Potassium’s Fun Days in the Lab!” Wellllll… I happen to LOVE photography and I am trying to get better at taking pictures. Sooooo I started this blog to challenge myself.
Okay… here’s the deal:
- I’m going to post a picture every week day (weekends are for rest/taking more pictures!!!)
- SOME days will have a special theme while other days, I can post whatever I want
- I reserve the right to change any of my picture rules at any time… ;)
So…. I guess I should have some rules so that I can break them…. Here they are:
- Monday – I have to post a portrait
- Tuesday – free day – I can post whatever I want (including pictures that I really like but I didn’t take)
- Wednesday – I have to post a black and white picture
- Thursday – free day – I can post whatever I want (including pictures that I really like but I didn’t take)
- Friday– Never underestimate the power of the cell phone camera! That’s right. Friday’s picture has to be a picture that I took on my cell phone!
Okay. Intro – check. Rules – check. Picture….. welp, it’s Friday so I guess I’d better post a cell phone picture…
Today is the day before mole day (for you non chemists out there, a mole is 6.22 x 1023 of anything. So a mole of eggs would be 6.22 x 1023 eggs. Wow… That is a lot of eggs…). Anyway, in celebration of mole day, the chemistry department made elemental cupcakes that you could buy for a penny a proton. I bought Potassium (of course) and then Cobalt for my boyfriend because he asked for it. And I think that is all! Have a happy weekend! The Denver zombie crawl is this weekend so watch out… next week’s photos are going to be veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery interesting…
Potassium Photography 
Mole day has never looked more delicious. Was there any more differences between the cupcakes other than the elements they displayed…otherwise I would imagine they would have a severe shortage of say…..hydrogen cupcakes …..and an overabundance of Nobelium cupcakes.
They only had one cupcake per element so Hydrogen went pretty fast… The cupcakes were a penny a proton UP TO $0.50 so Nobelium would only have been $0.50. Whew. The cupcakes were also colored according to where they fell on the periodic table. For example, the s block had one color (see the potassium cupcake) while the d block had a different color (see the cobalt cupcake). :)
Penny a proton–I love it! Early happy mole day!
Hey Sarah! I’m so excited about your photo blog!!! Just came to say hi! :) Hehe, the cupcakes are cracking me up. Were they nice btw?
Have fun at the zombie crawl!
*whale hugs*
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