I have been spending a bit of time lately exploring the growing collection on Google Books. This is a pretty amazing resource. For instance, you can now peruse all back issues of Popular Science, all the way back to 1872. Better yet, you can search all of these articles with the miraculously fast Google engine [...]

Every now and then I look through my aerial images for what I call serendipitous stereo pairs. These are pairs of images taken in quick succession with essentially the same view. During the time between exposured the camera’s position shifts a little bit and, if one is lucky, the direction it moves will create a [...]

This post is a working roster of my visits to our weep site just north of Alviso and the aerial photographs taken there. Wayne and I are working with Dan Rademacher at Bay Nature on an article describing our unassuming weep. This list is a means of putting a variety of images and brief observations [...]

The fine folks at California Coast & Ocean used one of my salt pond aerials for the cover of the most recent issue.

The image selected is one of my early salt pond shots taken near Mowry slough when I was conducting my early explorations of the East Bay wetlands. This link will take you to [...]

Having not visited the weep for six months or so I found myself stopping by twice within a month. We have come to think of this interesting site, a small drainage along the Southern Pacific rail tracks, as home to populations of micro-organisms that vary overrelatively short periods of time and distance.

Views of the [...]

Spring is in the air. Only three weeks have passed and I found myself out at the Weep again, on this occasion in the company of Wayne Lanier and Dan Rademacher of Bay Nature. Again the visit occurred under flat, midday light and, again, I found myself playing with the carp pole. The first panorama [...]