Why are there so very many spider webs on kthread? This is how my day begins—with morning webs draped across cacti like necklaces tossed off by flappers, the many strands tangled after a night’s revelry (certainly explains the dew), or hovering like white noise, catching stray new light as though a cornet, and often working [...]

I find food photography incredibly humbling. This afternoon, I decided to try capturing the particular sparkle of red salt on local greens. Green and red are color opposites, and the glossy salt jumps off matte rainbow chard (the word ‘chard’ even sounds matte). I liked the center of the photo with the red salt heart [...]

The lily below, from the pond out in front of the magic cottage, is now my computer wallpaper. As I have a peculiar habit of changing the wallpaper every few days, I thought I’d share with you a set of Flickr photos that are in rotation on my monitors (I’ll continue to update this set [...]

My ongoing love affair with San Francisco grew stronger last night as I made letters and shapes with light sources and other photography enthusiasts in Dolores Park. Organized by the great online photography community of JPG mag, the cult camera purveyors Lomography, and my inspiring friend Amit Gupta and the wonderful Photojojo newsletter crew, fifty [...]

Most mornings, I pause briefly to admire the leaves of a plant just outside the magic cottage–some are green with red veins, some red with green veins. As though woven by chlorophyll artists, I noticed the slight tears and small holes in many of the leaves the other day. Perhaps part of the tropical storm [...]