We hit the Salinas Air Show again this year. The Blue Angels closed the show - it's always exciting to see them. Also present were some great vintage planes, like the P-51 Mustang, wingwalkers, the [...] Slice, fry and eat. Making potato chips for dinner at my sister's ranch. Most of them didn't make it to the dinner table - a sad casualty of having five people standing around [...] Shrew Visitor This tiny shrew came into the house this afternoon. We weren't sure what it was (mouse? mole?), but easily caught it in a tupperware container. I took him outside, added some dirt and [...] Did I Leave My Bag Here? Grafitti on a wall in Venice Beach. Ever since I started shooting images seriously for my A Picture A Day project in 2007, I've been shooting in RAW format. RAW saves all the image data the camera collects with minimal processing, as [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] Built from plans in Make Magazine with a couple mods. Made from a sprinkler valve and PVC (and of course duct tape!), compressed air fires the rocket high into the sky. Our rocket is make [...]Salinas Air Show
Fresh Potato Chips
Shrew Visitor
Did I Leave My Bag Here?
Why I Shoot in RAW
California Academy of Sciences – Another Trip
Sunrise, Fallen Leaf Lake
Charity Valley Flowers
Fallen Leaf Lake, Part 1
Air Rocket
