I’ve often heard the argument that the United States is still a vastly unsettled country. A satellite image taken at night over the US will attest to this, as a sprawling network of highways and populated areas can be seen. Yet some of the most beautiful moments one can have with nature come from the [...]

Continuing with my night photography theme, the above image was taken in Pacific Beach, San Diego, this last April. It was fairly dark that night, and I was photographing the moonlit ocean from the beach. When I turned around and looked up, I found this photograph. I quickly threw my camera on my tripod, focused [...]

Earlier this month, I mentioned my love of long exposure night photography and my desire to shoot the sky from the isolation of Anza Borrego State Park. The region, covering 2,400 km² and one-fifth of San Diego County, is the largest state park in California. It also happens to be one of the last places left [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to win a Solio Classic solar-powered gadget charger through the Viropop Community in partnership with Buygreen.com for a blog post I wrote on being green. The Solio is a device roughly the same size as a standard computer mouse that unfurls into an array of three [...]

Well, not alone entirely. I’ve got my laptop with me, and the crickets chirping around me. In fact, I’m only in my backyard (though I live in a relatively rural part of suburbia with a large backyard unaffected by modern cookie-cutter landscaping). Earlier today, a post came up in my newsreader about the total solar [...]

Wikipedia describes Desertification as the “the degradation of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting primarily from human activities and influenced by climatic variations.” This effect, occurring at an increasing rate worldwide, stems from the direct impact of the overuse of land by rising populations. As Wikipedia goes on to describe, one [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, Colorado Springs is saturated with tourist traps. Though it’s located next door to plenty of wonderful natural elements, most tourists merely follow the giant freeway billboards. One tourist trap you should avoid is Seven Falls. Due to a natural drought in the region, this seven-stepped waterfall is actually fueled by pump-driven [...]