Pictures

We went last week to the World Wildlife Zoo up in Phoenix, one of my favorite zoos on the planet. Scroll down to see some of the beautiful creatures I captured on my new Nikon camera.

You are looking at the birth of new stars! The Orion Nebula is what astronomers call a “stellar nursery”.

My irrepressible fascination with scale and the the enormity of the universe led me to find this wonderful map made by Andrew Colvin. It shows a mere 150 million light-year-wide slice of the entire universe, which extends 13 billion light years wide. I’ve taken Andrew’s map apart, section by section, to give you a view [...]

The beauty of desert plant life is its ability to take root and grow and flourish in the red red rock. This particular rock is part of the massive rock formation that supports the Chapel of the Holy Cross, designed by Marguerite Brunswig Staude, who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. I took hundreds [...]

Deep inside the Trifid Nebula. A spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

“Be joyful even after you have considered the facts.” – Jane Goodall

I invite you to an experience, a one minute experience of awe and wonder an attempt to take in — to grok — the incredibly amazing immense enormity of the universe. Nothing short of mind blowing, unless you don’t care. But if you do care, if you’re curious, follow me, … deep into deep space… [...]

Love is the soul of genius. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

July 26, 2010. Just back from a week in Prescott, Arizona, our favorite place (nearby) to escape the summer heat. Prescott is home to about a half a dozen lakes, each with a unique beauty and personality. Watson Lake is especially beautiful for its round granite rock formations, known as the Granite Dells. Here are [...]