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Biking the Stevens Creek Trail

Posted: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 @ 2:10 pm in Photography, Silicon Valley | 1 Comment »

One of my favorite places to go biking is along the Stevens Creek Trail here in Mountain View. Most of the route is on bike trails so I don’t have to worry about people in cars trying to murder me and I avoid the loss of momentum that comes with intersections. Plus, it’s […]

Hiking in the Foothills

Posted: Sunday, March 16th, 2008 @ 7:14 pm in Photography, Silicon Valley | 2 Comments »

Last weekend Katie came down from Sacramento and the three of us (yup, Dave and the Katies) went hiking around the Foothills. We let the GPS do the thinking, which first led us to the Palo Alto Foothills Park, where we were turned away because we are not Palo Alto residents. The park […]

Photos in the Bathroom

Posted: Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 @ 8:37 pm in Photography, Silicon Valley | No Comments »

Behold, my favorite shot this week:

Taken in the bathroom at Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell. They have a mirror on each wall facing each other creating an infinitival effect.

This is one of those rare cases in which the graininess of my little point and shoot came in handy. I increased the […]

Snapping Shots Around the San Francisco Bay

Posted: Friday, February 22nd, 2008 @ 2:26 am in Photography, San Francisco, Silicon Valley | 2 Comments »

I went for a leisurely ride on a trail around the bay the other day and got a few decent shots that serve as extra motivation to save up for an SLR. I had a lot of opportunities for some beautiful shots, but am appalled by the graininess I got. Nevertheless, some turned […]

So you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now what?

Posted: Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 @ 1:13 am in Cooking, News, Photography, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Travel, Videos, Writing | 4 Comments »

Here is yet another attempt to keep friends and family updated on our activities without resorting to boring discussions about the weather (”It’s 10 below in MN? Wow, would you believe it got up to 66 here today?”) or work (”So Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, eh? What would you call them then, […]

Bucky Balls, Power Balls and Energy Orbs

Posted: Sunday, February 10th, 2008 @ 6:05 pm in Cooking, Food, Photography, Recipes | 3 Comments »

I’ve been reading Crystal and Ryan’s blog, Cafe Cyan, ever since Crystal commented on one of my posts long ago, I checked out her site and thought, “pictures of food! Sweet!”. Well, the other day I came across their post about energy orbs and was curiously intrigued.

I’ve never really had the pleasure […]

A Perilous Visit to Santa Cruz

Posted: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 @ 6:25 pm in News, Photography, Travel, Writing | 2 Comments »

Since Dave had a long weekend and we didn’t plan far enough in advance to take a flight anywhere, we decided to go to Santa Cruz last week, Martin Luther King Jr Day, to commemorate the civil rights movement properly. We celebrated our right as an inter-racial couple to drive through the mountains to […]

Awesome Shots with a Point and Shoot

Posted: Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 @ 9:09 pm in Photography, Travel | 2 Comments »

Largely due to the large amount of traveling Dave and I were fortunate to do last year, I’ve rediscovered my love of photography. So much so that I’ve outgrown our little Pentax Optio S4 point and shoot that we keep in an Altoids tin. I’m in the market for a digital SLR and […]