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On this site, you will find many things. A wide variety of subjects are encountered. Many will be based in science and require more than a nodding aquaintance with the subjects and usually advanced math too. Sometimes not. This site is more than a whim but not a commitment. Currently, High Dynamic Range imaging is relevant and has been explored in great detail. There are many sites that discuss HDR on any level or area in which your interests lie. My area has been in film scanning and unusual environments such as dawn-to-morning, fogs, aerial perspective sequences. Application to medical X-Ray film is another area of interest.
Cartography is interestting. The system of projections is like a mathematical puzzle. How do you wrap an orange in a sheet of paper wiithout wrinkling or folding the paper. You can cut if you like, but not unless you think cutting is necessary. Origami seems to be a related subject. Speaking of Origami, see the Home Improvement page for an unorthodox method to cut down a tree.
Another area of interest is Climate. I have some Matlab scripts to extract and format free data from the web. Matlab is an extensive and expensive mathematics software suite. There is a student version available and some freeware competitors such as Octave and Scilab. Octave regulaly crashes easily on my machine so I compile Scilab using Microsoft's Visual Studio 6 or GNU's GCC. The data can be analyzed for frequemcy components and other parameters using common math lab functions. Matlab can create an image of the plot or you can use GNUPlot, which is free. There seems to be a weekly temperature component in the climate where I live (N.E. Tennessee).