March 2020 Photo of the Month: LM115

LM115

My March 2020 Photo of the Month is LM115, taken in early March during a rainstorm clearing the Laguna Mountains in San Diego County.

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2020 Is The Lost Year

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2020 Is The Lost Year.  Perhaps the best way to reflect on a lost year is to seek some normalcy and post a few of the many unprocessed photographs from the last couple years. This should be part of my Unprocessed Sunday series that I have been meaning to get to.

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Potato Chips, Ranked

Potato Chip First Ballot Hall of Famer

Potato Chip First Ballot Hall of Famer

This is the complete and unassailable ranking of potato chips, one of the best creations in the history of humanity and one of the things I am most passionate about in life.  Failure to agree completely with this list means you are totally wrong and there is no hope for you.  This is like my complete and unassailable list of overrated rock bands, but in chip form.

 

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February 2020 Photo of the Month: JT150

JT150

My February 2020 Photo of the Month is JT150, taken as a storm was clearing over Pinto Mountain in Joshua Tree National Park.

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How The Boy Scout Trail Got It’s Name

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As somebody who has been visiting Joshua Tree National Park (or at one time, Monument…) my entire life, I ponder things.  One of them was the name of the Boy Scout Trail, which doesn’t match the naming convention of other places in the Park1

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January 2020 Photo of the Month: WND20

WND20

My January 2020 Photo of the Month is WND20, another sunset photograph from San Diego’s Windansea Beach.

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Processing Kobe

Kobe Bryant Inscription

Kobe Bryant Inscription
My friend Dave Harrell left this inscription on the wall at the Lakers HQ memorial for Kobe Bryant.

The first text came in that said “RIP Kobe.” It was to a basketball-oriented texting group, and I simply assumed he was referring to Lebron passing him in career points the night before.

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December 2019 Photo of the Month: JT145

JT145

My December 2019 Photo of the Month is JT145, a black and white looking East as the Christmas storm that brought snow to Joshua Tree was coming in.

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My 2019 In Music

My 2019 In Music Starts with Foals - Moonlight

One of the last blog posts I do each year is cover the music I listened to the most, and sharing it with others. 

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My Favorite Photos of 2019 (12 Images)

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2019 is coming to a close, and with that, it is time to look over my catalog of images and determine my favorite photographs of 2019.

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