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upper temple garden

After three weeks in my opulent “Lotus Pavilion” I switched out with my roomies for this beautiful room. I think my favorite part is …

that’s how we roll

In homage to our friends’ shot in Pai: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ottomatona/2348842293/

volcano jump

These jumping photos just never get old for me. One this day a big group of us hiked several hours up to the top …

celebration

I admit it: I am far too ignorant of what culturally is going on around here in Bali. My primary problem, as far as …

looking up

The tree canopies at my house rock. This is the view looking up from the zen garden.

[insert somewhat witty title here]

Our house has this cabinet of really cool glasses and dishes at the end of the really, really long dining room table (it has sixteen …

jesus christ poi

If you aren’t a Soundgarden fan than you might not have the same song playing in your head that this title elicits for me. …

another shade of view

I’m not sure if the title plays on words in a way that makes any sense and, in the true spirit of how I think …

monkey business

There is this awesome monkey forest in the center of Ubud, the town in Bali that I’m calling home for a couple of months. …

my open air office

I love my home and I love working from a comfy place. Desks never made much sense to me but a couch is where …

stepping inside

This is the view that greets me as I enter my home for the next month or so here in Bali. It’s impossible to …

poolside

Our home in Bali is very relaxing but the pool is one of the best spots to lay back and enjoy the atmosphere.

garden drop

In an attempt not to feature a third consecutive Buddha, here’s a flower in our lily pond. The rain came for hours yesterday and …

tanang

“Tanang” (and I’m likely spelling this wrong, so please correct me if you know any better) is the Indonesian equivalent of “peaceful” or “serene”. …

pantulan

“Pantulan” in the Indonesian word for “reflection”. It’s also the name of my home for the next 6 weeks and it’s easy to see …

on the march

After three full days I finally got my camera out of the house and into the town of Ubud on this night. The first …

active

Here’s the view of one of Bali’s many active volcanoes (and the one that we can see from our back porch). I hope to …

shortest day

Saturday was one of the shortest days of my life. I departed from SFO in San Francisco at approximately 1:30am and crossed over the …

palms

My last day in Texas so I had to get more outdoor shots in. This is some palm branches that I had tried to …

a flamingo in the bush is worth two biting your hand

Today I picked up my third lens: a f/1.8 50mm. I’ve been excited about getting more into macro photography with dynamic blurring affects from …

magic tree

My favorite thing about Texas is the sunsets. However, this is my fifth sunset during this trip out here and tonight’s was the first …

stillness

It wouldn’t be a trip to west Texas with at least one shot of a windmill.

cloud portal

Taken somewhere over New Mexico on a flight from SF > Houston. I love the curvature of the Earth as seen from a plane. Below …

emptied

This is the beginning of the end of this go-around in San Francisco. My closet has been emptied and the bag is almost packed. …

grillmaster camtastic

What do you do when you fly out at 11pm that night AND have everything already packed and ready to go by the early afternoon? …

under the fur

Too racy for you guys? Whatever. Enjoy!

flowers on the wall

mission ride

There’s this awesome pink car that lives around the corner that anyone with a camera can’t help but photograph. The owner, apparently used to …

tailLITE

I love my motorcycle, Gracie. However, it looks like this week is the last that she’ll be mine. We’ve ridden more than 20,000 …

escher meets ikea

Is it folding in or folding out? Which way is in or out? Do any of these questions even matter?

for a dead girl

It wasn’t until I unloaded my memory card a couple days later than I realized that I took exactly two photos on this day (and …

brides of march

Brides of March sweeps San Francisco off its feet every year around the Cesaresque “ides of March” mark and hundreds of people don wedding dresses …

trails

One of the best things about living at my place is the random things that happen here. Last night some interesting folks from D.C. …

tressel

I stomped all over Santa Cruz on this day taking about 80 over all shots that I ended up keeping. I captured beaches, light …

unseen beauty

I only took a handful of photos on this lazy Sunday of re-entry into the real world (or as “real” it gets for me) but …

getting high at walmart

Just because you find yourself in some random Walmart on a Friday night doesn’t mean you can’t get high.

still beautiful

There are these really beautiful flowers that somehow showed up in our kitchen a week or so ago. Since there’s no light and no …

orange

Monday morning I had to move my truck off the street at an early hour (1 hour parking starts early, yo) because someone had blocked …

inside out

I took only a handful of photos on this Saturday and all of them were with my pocket-sized Canon point ‘n click. As far …

masked

Heather ordered a bunch of $1 eye masks with awesome eyes off eBay last week and we combined crazy covered eyes with shaking it like …

elevation

Any guess what this is? Here is another guess.

shakin’ it

This is what happens when you get four of your friends to relax their mouths and then shake their heads violently while aiming your camera …

furry fire navel

What’s better: the firelight, the navel, or the wild fur on the edges? I say all three together are what do the trick.

dancing

Today I had a 20 unexpected minutes between meetings and went for a quick walk to the corner store four blocks away. On the …

green

And now for something a little different…

ghosted

Taken at Bourbon and Branch speakeasy in the Tenderloin with my Canon point ‘n shoot with almost no light. I had to really jack …

rutherford

Casey and I went to Napa for an awesome weekend. After checking in at our hotel we dined at the Rutherford Grill to kick …

cinder

Today I went looking for something more abstract to capture. I typically shoot mostly real-life stuff but want to vary up what normally jumps …

to clear vision

Found while on a Sunday morning drive around the peninsula in Lincoln Park. If you inserted some quarters and looked through the eye piece …

jump (again)

Earlier this week I gathered all of my many roommates together for a picture of us all jumping. While it turned out pretty well, …