The photographs on these pages have a single unifying characteristic: they were all taken by amateur photographers who are physicists in their non-photographing life. I'm intrigued by their vision of the world -- by the way that their insights as quantum physicists, information theorists, or complexity theorists shape the way they view plants, cities, human beings, dirty dishes, or whatever else they look at when they get behind a camera.
At some point I'll get around to writing a bit here about why their visions of the world are so interesting to me as a science fiction writer. For now however, I'll let you draw your own conclusions, and simply point you to their web pages for more information about their work....
Charles H. Bennett is a quantum physicist who also happens to be my uncle . . . and is a major reason why I eventually became a science fiction writer. His biography, publications, and photographs can be found on his official IBM homepage. I solemnly commend all right-thinking readers to the study of the associated pages entitled Minuteman Pizza and The Institute of Holistic Computer Wellness.
Ciro Cattuto is a physicist and computer scientist at the Centro Fermi, whose current research focuses on the interface of complex systems, distributed computing and developmental biology. The photos of his that I used on these pages were taken in 2004-5 while he was at the Riken Institute in Tokyo. You can find more of Ciro's photos, along with thoughts on semantic tagging, LINUX hacking, and other topics, at Ciro's Blog.
Andy Ilachinski is a physicist and complexity theorist who specializes in modeling complex adaptive systems. You can look at more of Andy's photos on his photography page, The Tao of Digital Photography. If you are interested in complexity theory or cellular automata, you should also visit the ISAAC/EINstein homepage, and Andy's general homepage, which includes information about his books, Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe and Artificial War: Multiagent-Based Simulation of Combat.