Photography

I've been taking photos in my spare time since early 2021 or so, wherever I've been living at the time.

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Lake Temescal, Mar. 30 2023

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Picture of a power pylon rising up above trees, with San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid visible in the distance through a gap in the trees.

Transamerica Power

A white-crowned sparrow, slightly hidden by bushes in front of it. It's a small bird, with white-and-black stripes along the top of its head, a short yellow beak, and brown back. It looks out into empty space - just a blur of a background.

White-crowned Peaks

Picture of a Scrub Jay sitting on a branch, holding an acorn in its beak, and the side of its face visible to the camera. The scrub jay's chest and belly are white, with blue feathers on its head and wings. It's also got white streaks just above its eyes. The branch it's on has a couple bunches of pale green lichen.

Picture of five geese flying in a tight line across a yellow-blue gradient sunset sky. The tops of trees and buildings are barely visible below. There's a few palm trees, street lights, and a large building with "SNEK" graffittied on it in block capitals.

Life Goes By (1 of 2)

Picture of a rabbit, alert and staring into the camera. It's halfway upright, only putting a little bit of weight on its front legs, and with ears perked up and catching the sunlight. It looks so unbelievably fuzzy.

Picture of the illustration on the back of a gate. It shows a little... something? Kind of potato-like. Text beside it reads "We were all born with wings. Use them..." - and the potato thing has its own little wings. Through the two painted metal pipes of the gate, a man is walking across the road in the background.

We were all born with wings

Picture of a raven, far away but zoomed in. It's sitting on top of a pine tree, looking at the camera with its head tilted.

Quizzical Corvid

Picture of a yellow-rumped warbler (a small bird) hanging off the side of a single dry reed. This picture has a handful of reeds scattered across the foreground alongside the bird, but most of the image is taken up by soft, out-of-focus reeds in the background. The water of the lake is just visible through the reeds; it's got a kind of yellowy glow to it at this hour. The little bird is plump, kind of brown with a white chest and a splash of yellow in front of its wings and atop its head.

Yellow-rumped Warbler hanging out (1 of 2)

A brilliant pink and white-ish magnolia flower, backlit by the sun and framed between two branches on either side. A couple other flowers from the same tree are visible in frame but out of focus.

Sunstruck Magnolia

Closeup of a black-and-white cat, bright yellowy-green eyes wide open, looking straight into the camera. The cat's got a little black spot beneath its nose. Very cute, 10/10

Cat in the Headlights

Photo, taken looking up at a pylon against a flat grey sky. Towards the bottom of the frame, the various structural bars criss-cross over each other chaotically. Further upwards, the pylon ends with the view of its isulators attached to the wires going out in either direction. Each of the three insulators is at a slightly different angle, each being slightly crooked.

Asymmetry of Power

Perched Long Tailed Tit

Closer than they appear

Picture of five crows on a power line, against a dark sky. Behind them, out of focus and facing the other way, is a backwards american flag.

Downtown Oaktown

Picture of a brown and white sparrow, perched kind of sideways on a stick that curves upwards through the photo. The background is soft and blurry blobs, as if just the ideas of grass and bushes and trees. The sparrow has a little grey beak and brown streaks on its head, with brown streaked wings and black-on-white spots on its chest.

Meadow Goose (2 of 3)

Sparkling Water with Iceplant

Teeny tiny brown bird, sitting atop a wood post, with the top of the barbed-wire fence extending out to either side. The little guy is quite round, with a short, thin beak — it's got one foot raised, and both eyes shut, almost like it's about to stomp in protest. The background is a blur of greens, with broad strokes of out-of-focus grass painting lighter shades on top.

Close-up (ish) of a water lily, kind of white and pink-ish, and barely reflected in the water between the gaps in the lily pads. There's a little fly sitting at the top of the flower.

Christ Church Water Lily (1 of 2)

Closeup of a white cat with black and orange spots on its face, licking its lips. It's facing into the sun, squinting.

Sl-Ayia Napa Cat (3 of 3)

Skyline Gardens Gear

Photo of a sidewalk at night, with a "15 MPH" sign in front of a leafless tree that sweeps across the path. A wood plank dangles from the tree, low to the ground — a swing, almost. The scene is backlit by a lantern far behind, casting long shadows in the foreground.

Nighttime Cycles

Please Help Me. Jesus Loves

Oak Tunnel (1 of 2)

A weathervane of a small copper plane, slightly oxidized, glowing in the sunset. A large cotton-candy cloud spans the frame behind it, with the plane just poking above.

Flight above the Clouds

Shadows on Empty Chairs

A tree trunk with the shadow of a hummingbird cast onto it. The tree's a bright, light brown with lichen spotted across it and a little bit of moss on the side. A not-quite-as-bright blue sky is visible poking through the leaves behind it.

Shadow of Flight

Not quite sure how to describe this, but I'll try. The photos of a handful of large daisy-like flowers, maybe African Daisies? They stick out from the rich greens of their stems, leaves, and budding buddies. There's two kinds of flowers here - both with the same circular shape with many long petals: One kind is a rather plain, light and almost shiny purple; the other comes as a gradient, barely purple at the center before shifting quickly towards red, orange, or yellow at the edges.

Nighttime picture of the porch outside a shop. It's lit by a big light up front pointing in, and a couple others out of frame leave the storefront a patchwork of illuminated poles and vertical shadows. A handful of signs cover the railing, half in shadow and not very legible.

Mountain Vulture