Flower Cactus
Another shot from my recent trip to the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley, thought this time from the new world desert area of the garden. This cactus featuring lots of brightly colored flowers really...
View ArticleNight Espresso
Looking down over an intersection in the dead of night reminds me of staring at a moment without time. No cars, no one rushing in and out of the coffee shop. Everything is still. The perfect subject,...
View ArticleTree Tunnel
Driving into the canopy of trees on the way to Grizzly Peak means relief from all of the stress of work and life, and a moment with the beautiful roads of northern California. Today is my last day in...
View ArticlePerfect Sunset
I love that time of the evening when the earth is dark but the sky is still blue with just hits of orange and red and the clouds have just a little pink hue. Filed under: Berkeley, California Tagged:...
View ArticleMore Than a Nose
Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields: dollar beers, dollar hot dogs, dollar admissions. Delicious, preposterous revelry. And rivalry. Mostly, I just love the dynamic sense of motion captured here. (And...
View ArticleBerkeley’s Bells
Up in the top of UC Berkeley’s Campanile, the carillon is made up of these enormous bells. In their environment of steel and stone and bronze, the bells seem to resonate even when they’re silent. Filed...
View ArticleCloud City
I believe I’ve commented before that San Francisco, once the clouds roll in, bears some resemblance to the Bespin’s cloud city, especially with Sutro tower poking out above everything else. Filed...
View ArticlePurple Haze
The evening in the east bay is a magical time and place. Filed under: Berkeley, California Tagged: East Bay, Evening, HDR, Marin, purple
View ArticleThe Scary Door
With a campus as huge and old as Berkeley’s, it’s natural to expect that there would be some odd corners here and there. This particular back door, hiding in an out-of-the-way location at the back of...
View ArticlePerch
On the rocks of Grizzly Peak, nothing resets your soul like seeing the hills and trees towering above the hazy sprawl of Oakland. Filed under: Berkeley, California Tagged: Berkeley, City, cliff, Dusk,...
View ArticleHiking the West
Having recently spent a great deal of time hiking the forests of New England, the broad, grassy, and only sparsely forested hills of California are seeming more and more alien in my memory. With the...
View ArticleHiding in the Plants
Having moved away from Berkeley, certain details of life in the quasi-city become more and more unbelievable. This particular abode seems to have been plucked from the pages of a fairy tale. Filed...
View ArticleFiddle head
Ferns always remind me of my childhood and Berkeley seems to have so few. I grabbed this shot at he Berkeley botanical gardens. Looking at this curled up fern up close makes it look like some sort of...
View ArticleHappy 4th! Pitcher Plant
I haven’t been posting as regularly as I’d like to recently (grad school has caught up with me recently) but since I have some time today I’ve got a double feature. This image was captured during the...
View ArticleAnother World with the Lights Out
The night is normally an amber-bathed fry-cooker for my mind. On this particular night last fall, however, high temperatures and a local power outage changed the hues of the world to the...
View ArticleBerkeley Oranges
This one was also captured at the UC Berkeley Botanical gardens. There’s something just so refreshing about the way that oranges look on the tree. You can almost taste the juicy flesh just looking at...
View ArticleBright Pink Flowers
Captured in UC Berkeley’s botanical garden. Filed under: Berkeley, California Tagged: Flowers, Gardens, HDR, outdoors, Pink, sunny
View ArticleAll in a row
On the western edge of Cal’s campus (which is full of trees to begin with) sits this little grove of trees and benches commemorating the forestry club. The density of trees and the regularity of their...
View ArticleBerkeley’s Devil Z
Legendary tuned cars abound in manga and anime—the overpowered monsters in unassuming guise who reveal their true (horse)power in the last seven minutes of each episode. In at least two that jump to...
View ArticleSabertoothed
I certainly wouldn’t want to have come up against one of these in the wilds of prehistoric California. Filed under: Berkeley, California Tagged: blue sky, campus, HDR, outdoors, statue, UC Berkeley
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