Jekyll2026-09-30T22:36:16+00:00https://ngrlcu.github.io/journal/feed.xmlLuca NigroLuca Nigro — PhD student in physics in Milan, working on analog quantum reservoir computing with Rydberg atom arrays and quantum computing for energy.Luca NigroA roll of Portra in October light2026-09-12T00:00:00+00:002026-09-12T00:00:00+00:00https://ngrlcu.github.io/journal/2026/portra-octoberA sample photo essay. For this kind of entry, keep the words short and let the pictures carry it: a line of context, then the frames.

Frame 4. The first one I liked.
Frame 4. The first one I liked.
Frames 17 and 18, a step apart.

Camera, lens, film stock and lab can go at the end, if you like keeping track.

Camera · 50 mm · Kodak Portra 400, box speed.

]]>Luca NigroFour days down the Adriatic2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:002026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00https://ngrlcu.github.io/journal/2026/adriaticThis is a sample entry. It shows how a travel piece looks: a cover photo, a short standfirst, then text interleaved with photographs. Replace it with your own writing and delete the file when you no longer need it.

We left early, before the traffic on the ring road, and took the coast road wherever there was a choice. The motorway is faster; the coast road is the reason to come.

Three mornings, three shades of the same sea. Portra 400.

The long middle

The middle of the drive is the part people skip. It is also where the light is best: long, low, and slightly yellow in the late afternoon, bouncing off limestone that has been bleached almost white.

Every town looked like the last one, and every one of them was worth stopping in.

A photo can sit at text width, or break out wider than the column like the gallery above, or run edge to edge.

The bay, around seven in the evening.
The bay, around seven in the evening.

Short paragraphs read well here. Say where you were, what you saw, and one thing you would tell a friend who is about to go.

]]>Luca NigroStars from a light-polluted sky2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:002026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00https://ngrlcu.github.io/journal/2026/night-skyA sample entry mixing notes and photographs. Something like a field log works well: what you pointed at, how long you exposed, what went wrong.

Stacked exposures, lightly processed.
Stacked exposures, lightly processed.

Settings

  • Tracker polar-aligned by eye
  • 30 × 60 s subframes
  • Stacked and stretched afterwards

The sky was never truly dark. That is most of the story.

]]>Luca NigroOn keeping a notebook2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:002026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00https://ngrlcu.github.io/journal/2026/notebookA sample of a text-only note. The Notes category is for anything that is not a trip or a set of photographs: a thought about research, a book, a habit.

Keep it as short as it wants to be. The cover image is optional; drop the cover: line and the entry still works.

Headings, lists, quotes and inline code are all styled, so ordinary Markdown is all you need.

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