My Personal Favorites 

     Something about each of these pictures really stands out to me. Some of them are typical "good" pictures like sunsets. Others reveal in my personal aesthetics. They've had only minor color and contrast adjustments unless otherwise noted.

 

This was taken while I was backpacking. I love the spiraling, gnarled and natural look of the tree stump, along with the surrounding folliage. I admit to adjusted the colors to give it a very warm feeling. A warm feeling that forest fairies are close by.

 

 

I took this while I was in Taiwan. I was just walking and I looked over and BAM, a picture was just waiting to be taken. 

 

 

This was in Ireland. I love the depth of field effect, and the overall flow as your eyes move about the picture.

 

 

I took this during my MIT/WHOI orientation (which obviously occured on a boat).

 

 

Also during the WHOI orientation.

 

 

This is on the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Something about the two trees being different, yet strangly symmetric is just enthralling. 

 

 

Here is my attempt at black and white. I messed with the shadows and highlights on this to make it look more ominous. Its like the dead tree's branches are reaching out to you, trying to entice you to share its fate. 

 

 

I saw this as I was riding my bike home from my job at Scripps one day. What a pleasant suprise, eh? By the way, this was taken on a 1.2 megapixel camera that cost $130...no need for fancy equipment.

 

Took this in Sequoia while backpacking. It is well above 11,000 feeet. I like how razor sharp the ridge looks.

 

 

This picture is an inverse (of RGB values) of a picture from the "Sierra Backpacking" part of my webpage. I accidently highlighted the original picture when making the page and realized it looked cool, so I used GIMP to permanently invert the image. I suppose its a little out of place on this page, oh well...

 

 

Sand dunes in Death Valley. Tim, Chris and I got the brilliant idea of taking a hike out on the dunes around noon. We wondered why everyone was hiking back towards the road and we were the only ones hiking out into the dunes. We found out that its because the temperature gets to be around 110 degrees, and sloped sand is very hard to walk on. We came to this realization about an hour's journey into the dunes.

 

 

Another tree.