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Cityside Park – Treasure Island
Cityside Park — Treasure Island, San Francisco From high above on Yerba Buena Island, Treasure Island offers one of my favorite views of San Francisco Bay. From this bird's-eye perspective, you can see the entire 400-acre man-made island — and right now, watch its...
Crane Cove
William Westerfeld House
The Russian Embassy: Inside the William Westerfeld House Perched across from Alamo Square at 1198 Fulton Street, the William Westerfeld House has spent over 130 years reinventing itself right alongside San Francisco. I recently had the rare privilege of touring the...
Portsmouth Square Park
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Pier 70 Project
Pier 70, San Francisco, CA 2016 Pier 70 is one of San Francisco’s oldest continually operating industrial sites, its roots stretching back to the 1880s. The area first became prominent when Union Iron Works established shipbuilding operations along the waterfront,...
Las Vegas 2005
Las Vegas — 2005 My first visit to Las Vegas was in 2005. I had taken my mother for her birthday. She spent her days at the blackjack tables while I walked the city with a camera. We were staying at the Paris Hotel, and one of the first things that caught my...
Burning Man 2025
Burning Man 2025 Burning Man 2025 carried the spirit of a World’s Fair — not about consumerism, but about art, imagination, and collective action. The theme asked us to look past the myths of utopia and dystopia and instead explore a “protopia” — a future that gets a...
Flowers
Urban Gardner I’ve been turning my backyard into a bee and butterfly friendly space—raised beds for edibles surrounded by bursts of flowers. Over time it’s become a permanent pollinator garden. Perennials like lavender, sage, and yarrow form the structure,...
Cambria, CA
Cambria & The California Central Coast The Olympus OM-2 once belonged to my Aunty Joy. After she passed, my grandmother gave it to me. She said Aunty Joy would have wanted me to have it. In 1999, I was living in San Francisco and spent time in Cambria, on...
Burning Man 2025: Art Cars
Burning Man 2025 Tommorow Today: Art Cars & Mutant Vechicles Each year, hundreds of Art Cars — or Mutant Vehicles — bring the playa to life, transforming Black Rock City into a moving gallery of light, sound, and imagination. Some roar like dragons or glide like...
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