2026-04-18Hello! This busy week still hasn't ended yet; I've still got a few more events to get through.I love this photo for so many reasons. First, the silly reasons: the photo hides a lot that you don't see. I've done a pretty good job at keeping my face off this website for now, so you don't see just how sweaty...

2026-04-17Limited permission was granted to use photos taken for these events on this site.Hello! I'm realizing that so many things I use are coded with artificial intelligence. Especially with Anthropic's Claude, which was caught destroying millions of books in the name of science, and which was defended as being...

2026-04-16Limited permission was granted to use photos taken for these events on this site.Hello!My school hosted a Greek Night, a cultural festival with circle dances, egg dropping, and lots of food. I didn't know how much I would like pastitsio :-).I'll be honest, I think this event was a bit much even for me....

2026-04-15Hello!The title is a bit inaccurate; it's more a curated botanical garden, but since they have exhibits for different flower types and labels, it feels like a museum! It even has a ticketed entry.I ought to be talking about my photographic process, but in all honesty, I'm not sure I had any thoughts for...

2026-04-14Hello! My first ever panorama photo!I have a couple of ideas on what to talk about floating around, but none of them fit a certain photo. So today, let's talk about Christmas.We're about as far from the Christmas craze as we could be today, so it's a perfect time for me to recount a story from Christmas...

2026-04-13Hello! I said I would go on a screen detox, but that didn't work out.Hermitcraft, which I consider to be an all-ages TV show free on YouTube themed around Minecraft, has hosted their annual charity event. They've raised more than $1,100,000 USD, breaking previous records.It's wonderfully chaotic and...

2026-04-12Back among the starry night sky...Hello! Every so often, I cycle through a regular process of building a high ego over something stupid and having it crash down. I wonder if this blog is unintentionally becoming an ego thing.Anyway, enjoy an article of me praising myself on how clever I am.The effect of...

2026-04-11Back at the university garden...Hello! Writing to you from Delaware, where I'm yet again out of my comfort zone.It was mostly cloudy when I took the photo, with only a few moments of sunshine. I took this photo in horizontal / landscape orientation, but cropped it as vertical. There are just too many...

2026-04-10Back at the university garden...Hello!It looks like I've sent up to one hundred emails out to each newsletter subscriber (one each day with the regular photo, as expected, and an additional daily email with the Originals for those who have supported me). I archive all my emails now, and going back, it's...

2026-04-09Hello! Well, this is something.Last month, I got in contact with WikiPortraits, an international organization that captures photos of people for Wikipedia and its sister projects. They let me go to the New Directors / New Films opening night in New York to take photos, and let me just say: oh my god i have...

2026-04-08Hello! My life has been flipping east and left and all around, and I'm signing up to crazy things this month. Loving every second of it. So enjoy a post including nothing crazy, written in the wee hours of the morning.I think that there are hidden gems all around town, and even when you've been to a place...

2026-04-07Hello! My homepage is getting boring, with all the landscape-oriented photos with the exact same aspect ratio. I oughta add a portrait of someone.This photo is near Washington Crossing, on the New Jersey side. But the bridge to get into the state park was blocked off. They were doing a prescribed burn on...