All photographs from the Woodland Park Rose Garden, Seattle. Enjoy!!
Category: interests
sunny infrareds
I got an infrared conversion done for one of my old SLRs. Basically, the camera’s infrared blocking filter is changed to a filter that blocks visible light. The one distinct advantage from my standpoint – you can do landscape photography in bright sunlight.
iceland – 5th time is the charm :)
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially in a visually stunning country like Iceland!
manito park, spokane
joseph & palouse
Joseph Oregon is still a wild place. It is surrounded by the Wallowa mountains, Snake river, Hell’s canyon and the Nez Perce reservation. It was a rained out weekend but I took the chance and drove south from Coeur d’ Alene. The clouds made for some interesting photography. On the way back I drove through…
ikigai – hector garcia, francesc miralles
Small, matter of fact book, that explores the Japanese concept of ikigai and the Okinawan lifestyle, follows up with concepts from Antifragile (Nassim Taleb), Blue Zones (Dan Buettner) and Man’s Seach for Meaning (Victor Frankl). A little bit of everything. Excerpts: Ogimi, a rural town on the north end of the island with a population…
until the end of the time – brian greene
A good primer for particle physics, quantum physics, thermodynamics, evolution and entropy. In addition to the parts, this is a book about the universe and how it functions. The concept of quantum tunneling as it applies to the Higgs field is particularly riveting. Just like in The Alchemist, Brian Greene says at at the end,…
ai
AI bots talking with each other. A bit scary. A bit disconcerting.
on mexican time – tony cohan
Writer and painter move from LA to San Miguel de Allende and become part of the local community. Their journey over 15 years: We were busy, successful, tired. In youth we’d both traveled widely on shoestrings, lived in Europe, North Africa, India, Japan. Now we had the money but no time. Instead we read about…
everything is f*cked – mark manson
Bravery is common. Resilience is common. But heroism has a philosophical component to it. There’s some great “Why?” that heroes bring to the table—some incredible cause or belief that goes unshaken, no matter what. And this is why, as a culture, we are so desperate for a hero today: not because things are necessarily so…