Travel

Melody and I planned to snowshoe more this season, but our plans were foiled and we were only able to go out one time. Maybe next year will give us a little more time and weather to head out again. I wanted to hike around the San Jacinto area in Palm Springs as a little [...]

I didn’t have any plans for my Christmas weekend, so after pondering for a while I decided that I should pack up my things and drive to Death Valley. this was around 7pm on the Friday of Christmas weekend, so I had a long way to go in order to arrive at my destination. The [...]

I was really intrigued when I heard on NPR that it was going to be the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in 2011. This lead me to search for a few reenactments in the Southern California area. Even though I am from Georgia, I was never able to go see a reenactment in real [...]

Melody and I have had a pretty crazy transition between our three years together. It started off with an internship at Air Products in Los Angeles, which turned into a two year long distance relationship. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to the University of Southern California to close that gap between us. I [...]

I’ve been dying to visit more places around California, especially the National Parks. The diversity of land around the state is fascinating, with deserts, mountains, and the ocean. I was completely amazed Mono Lake, and the images that people have taken while visiting there so I decided to plan a last minute trip down to [...]

Last August I planned a trip with Melody and Sarah to backpack to the top of the San Gorgonio Mountain – the highest peak in Southern California at 11,503 feet. We didn’t really want to rush the roughly 23 mile hike in one day, so we decided to set up camp at Dry Lake prior [...]

During the summer I had a lot of hikes planned in order to get ready for a potential Whitney backpacking trip that never happened. But the hikes prior to that were still amazing and probably higher on my list of places to go. This time around we went to the bridge to nowhere suggested by [...]

A group of friends decided to go hike up Mt. Baldy back in June to train either for Mt Whitney or a Macchu Picchu backpacking adventure. It’s great to see that Southern California has strenuous hikes to help train for these crazy adventures, also there is in fact large altitude changes for all these mountains. [...]

Blad was a major part of my trip, I love the technical aspect of film as well as the aesthetic outcome. The colors are truly different, and there is not much need for post processing. I usually am more cautious when shooting film as well, which helps develop my style and allow me to savor [...]

Another day trip prior to Mitchell’s wedding was to visit Afui in her hometown of Hsin Chu. We didn’t know what to expect there, especially since it wasn’t a place I planned on visiting, but all of the cities in Taiwan were unique and fun. We first went to a little night market to get [...]