For my birthday this year, Rachel took me to the newly remodeled California Academy of Sciences. I used to love coming to this place as a child, my grandmother worked there teaching photography seminars to students and while she was there after hours, I’d get to wander the halls and explore the ancient insects, dinosaurs, [...]

The fossils found at the rolling hills of Chengjiang in the Yunnan Province of China are the second oldest fossils found in the world. Only beat by the Ediacaran faunas in Australia, which date to about 580 million years old, the Chengjiang fossils come in at a distant second at 525 million years old, much [...]

Nothing like trying to turn a positive spin on something horrible. Back when I was in college I had a rough start to things. Both my grandparents had passed away, my girlfriend at the time and I were going through a rough patch that eventually lead to our breaking up and with the stress of [...]

I picked up an older Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f/2.8 MACRO lens last week and took it out this morning, while letting the dogs out, and snapped a couple of photos of a leaf on our rose tree.