Halo

My mom usually hates having her picture taken, but it looks like she snuck in here.

Twin Suns

A departure from what I usually see in my high school amphitheater.

No class competitions, no dance team performances, no eating students.

Off the Beaten Path

"Butterfly!"

"No, that's a flower!"

"Flower?"

"Uh huh. It's pretty."

"Pretty..."

Charis and Nikita

Nikomat

Found this while cleaning out my brother's room. Wish I had some film lying around.

The Peninsula Center

I miss the Boston Market we used to have here. :)

Light Tent Series: Overdose

Between the years of 1985 and 2000, the number of teenagers and young adults abusing prescription painkillers such as Vicodin has grown five-fold, from 400,000 to 2 million.

Light Tent Series: Overdose

On average in the United States, with each visit to a physician, 2.1 orders for prescription drugs are filed.

Receiving

Something about the intricacies of certain flowers makes them as pleasurable to shoot as any dominating cathedral or breathtaking sunset.

Light Tent Series: Sad Scarlet

If flowers could cry.

The Garter Snake

Found this fellow out in the front yard, clinging to my mom's orchids. Wonder where he normally sleeps...

Sepia Burnout

The Ferris Wheel: A Second Perspective

Again, at the Irvine Spectrum.

Palm Trees

The Romans awarded champions of gladitorial games and heroes of war with palm fronds, believing them to be symbolic of military success or might.

The Ferris Wheel

At the Irvine Spectrum.

Moonlight

In the devil's hour, my pulse slows, all tension is siphoned away, and I am content.

Prague Produce Market

In front of the Pension Tara Praha. Wonderful pears.

Fire

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

~Marshall Ferdinand Foch

Tristan and Kelly

Impossible Is Nothing

For a long time, a bee's wings were considered too proportionately small to lift its body off the ground and its ability to fly was a mystery to man.

Sunbathing

Because everyone needs a healthy dose of sunlight every so often.

Westfield Mall

Downtown San Francisco, looking straight up through the heart of the mall.

Goodmorning

I would normally venture the guess that some juvenile pedestrian had left impressions of his fingernails in this flower, but as it's growing two stories up, I suppose not.

The Tireless Worker

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me."

~Mahatma Gandhi

Nighttime: Elkridge Drive

The image that got me into shooting at nighttime.

Black and White: Elkridge Drive

If there was only one picture I liked for its positive and negative energy, perhaps it would be this one.

Black and White: Distracted

For the children and young adults out there with their plates full.

Black and White: The Bike Lot

First time walking on UC Berkeley campus. Infatuated with it already.

Steel Leopards

If cars could look predatorial...

Black and Gold

The Late Bloomer

The only one that hadn't yellowed.

Streetside Polarity

"The dark-veiled silhouette form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential."

-Kathryn Hulme

Black and White: Locked Up

"So I departed and was freed from imprisonment."

-Will Adams

The Scarlet Cactus

"Redder than vermillion, traditionally, the color of flame."

The Pink Star

Intersection of Longhill and Silver Arrow, Rancho Palos Verdes.

The Hanging Flower

Again, at the Corleone in Krakow.

The Corleone of Krakow

The most quaint restaurant known to mankind.

(Ul. Poselska 19 Str. in case you were interested.)

The Water Trough

200 meters belowground, in the Wieliczka Salt Mines.

The Thatched Roof

Taken at the Vistula Etnographic Park.

Charming

They don't make cars like this in America.

Black and White: Housing Units of the Auschwitz II Concentration Camp

As many as 4 inmates slept on each bunk, and as many as 1,000 were crammed in each unit.

Kilmainham Gaol

It was believed by the architects of Kilmainham Gaol that allowing light to suffuse the prison was tantamount to allowing the inmates contact with God, which was essential to their genuine rehabilitation.

The Gas Lamppost

Reputably the lamppost that inspired C.S. Lewis's in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Located on Campbell College.

The Dancing Couple

Nicknamed "Fred" and "Ginger," the two dance in New Town Prague.

If all buildings could be this playful, the sight of steel and concrete would be hard to grow sick of.

The Prague Astronomical Clock

Legend has it that the citizens of Prague gouged out the clockmaker's eyes so that he would never be able to make another.