It happened again: it snowed in La Crescenta. I grabbed my camera and ran outside; here are a few photos: gallery.

In a recurring experience or dream or journey or illusion, I woke up in San Francisco again one morning. It was rather nice, this time including the weather. I got to see Alcatraz and Marin county before I once again woke up down in Riverside. Life’s all about journeys, isn’t it?

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State of the art Operating Room at Alcatraz Penitentiary

This past weekend I tried out snowshoeing for the first time with a couple of friends. We went up into the San Bernardino National Forest, and it was pretty fun.

Here‘s a gallery of mostly landscape photos from the trip.

And here are some more personal snaps:

Yup, that’s me. Photo by Hunter Kirkwood.

Ethan was ready for anything.

And there were wallpapers. I’m hereby releasing a set of 44 high resolution wallpapers made from some of the photos I’ve taken.There are some wallpaper staples among them, including the Great Wall of China, the Golden Gate Bridge, or the London Eye. In general, they’re photos which I thought would make decent wallpapers.

I’ve exported them in two resolutions:

1920 x 1080 (16:9): 16:9 wallpapers (.zip, 29.3 MB)

1680 x 1050 (16:10): 16:10 wallpapers (.zip, 25.6 MB)

Feel free to share them as you like, but please don’t modify them.

Cheers

Here are a few samples:

Here’s a few pictures from Hollywood. Trying to get back in photo-taking mode this winter break.

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Line of people waiting to get into a preview screening of TRON.

A man in a movie about insomnia and soap asked, “If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” And hey, maybe you could.

One morning, I woke up in San Francisco. I had my camera with me, so here are some pictures. I felt sloppy taking them; it feels like I’ve been out of practice. Probably because I have. Not much going on around Riverside, you know. Hey, there’s another reason why it’s nice to wake up in a different place every now and then.

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If you look closely, you might be able to spot the surfers. Also notice the two kite surfers under the bridge.

Yes, the rumours are true. We have, in Riverside, had weather different from “hot and sunny”. In fact, it is raining (weakly, but still) outside at this moment, and not too long ago we had lightning and thunder. Imagine that.

So I ran outside to Sycamore Canyon Park just in time for sunset, and it was a show. Editing those photos while listening to Smetana’s Má Vlast is almost enough to make you religious.

I decided to put up only one photo… I think it sums everything up quite nicely.

1920 x 407

7680 x 1630

(The full-res panorama is 21k x 4k … putting this together on my computer took me about three hours. Aren’t I supposed to be in grad school or something?)

A while ago my brother and I took a short hiking trip up Mt. San Gorgonio. Here’s a few pictures from there: gallery. Hope you like them.

I recently took a trip up to Oregon and Norcal; here are the pictures. We visited the Trinity Alps, Crater Lake National Park, then drove down most of the Oregon coast. A final few days we spent in Redwoods State Park up in Norcal and a few days in Point Lobos. Here are some pictures, hope you like them.

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With the summer here, I find myself having more time than usual. As a result, I’ve finally managed to look through and edit all the pictures I’ve taken that I hadn’t looked at before… the oldest ones of which were from November 2008. So I’ve put them all together (they were all from London), and produced this gallery. Hope you like them.

Pictures from London