We took a family trip back up to the Academy. We didn't get there early enough to get tickets for the Planetarium show, but we did manage to fit in most of the other sections (the Rain Forest, Aquarium, Africa Hall, etc.). My favorite shots from this trip are below, and you can see all [...]
Early morning boat cruise on the lake. About a dozen of us climbed aboard the camp's party boat to watch the sunrise from on the water.From the middle of the lake, looking southwestIf you know the area, Mt. Tallac is the peak on the right side of the image. The sun has just come over [...]
A number of us from Stanford Sierra Camp went on a nature hike in Charity Valley. The timing worked out great, the hills seemed to be in full bloom. I spent the first half of the hike squatting to take pictures then running to catch up, but I think it was worth it. Asters Larkspur [...]
A few sets of pictures from Stanford Sierra Camp this year on Fallen Leaf Lake (near Lake Tahoe, California). We spend a lot of time on the lake wakeboarding, innertubing, fishing and just messing around. These are a couple of my favorite shots from on the water. Kevin wakeboarding - more air every year. This [...]
I had the pleasure yesterday of flying in the Airship Eureka – one of the few commercially flown Zeppelins in the world. The trip was organized by Steve Jurvetson for Airship Ventures to help set a course for a geeks air-tour of Silicon Valley. Stanford, Seen Through The Window Bon Voyage – Photo by Steve [...]
Suddenly my blog is becoming a travelog of cool museums. Last week I was in Pittsburgh and spent an afternoon at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - recommended because of their great dinosaur exhibit. It's worth the trip there just for that, but I found myself pulled into the dioramas on North American mammals. [...]
Don Marinelli and I spent last Tuesday afternoon at the California Academy of Sciences, getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the building, the planetarium, and the aquarium. If you haven't been there before, you need to go. Now. Four of my favorite shots: Portholes on the Roof (learn about the living roof here) God Rays in [...]
This image was awarded First Place tonight in the Travel category at the Palo Alto Camera Club. I've been a member for about a year and a half, and this is the first time I've gotten a First Place award. I will now admit, it felt really good.
Today I received my Blurb book that I put together from our Costa Rica trip. It looks great. It's 50 pages long with enough text and captions to explain the trip and images, but it's mostly a photo book. Even though I had most of the text already written (from the blog) and [...]
Flying into Los Angeles on an extremely clear day. The distant mountains are at least 50 miles away. When I grew up in LA (the 60's and 70's) we had over 120 Stage 1 Smog Alerts per year - that meant that you shouldn't play outside and you needed to curtail any unnecessary driving. At [...]