conformal cyclical cosmology

i’m closer than i’ve ever been to understanding the true nature of reality.

hopecore

i did not capture this image, my friend johnny z did. but i’m behind the wheel doing one of my absolute favorite things, driving on a renville county road while accompanied by my camper.

mt cleverest

from alaska last fall, they don’t have things like this where i grew up.

A trip down memory lane/piss alley

A slightly blurry picture to match a slightly blurry memory. A great bartender in Piss Alley (Iocated within Shinjuku) showing a nice shochu while George Benson plays on the speaker.

past light

best northern lights sighting of my life, in the backyard, by stumbling across it.

fluffy killer cattle

bison need scratches too! but I’m not gonna be the one to do it.

god’s country pt. 2

my second visit to Glacial Lakes State Park did not disappoint!

get lost

I can hear this picture. It sounds like nothing - dead quiet. The peak of luxury, at least to me.

fresh fish

this was the kind of shot I always wanted to get when I first started trying out wildlife photography. salmon doesn’t get any fresher than this!

the seaward/seward

the first of many wildlife sightings on a fruitful boat tour around Seward, AK!

unBEARable lightness of being

i was happy to have the once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Katmai National Park back in 2018, but turns out it was a twice in a lifetime experience. In 2018 I visited Hallo Bay. last week, I captured this at the famous Brooks Falls camp.

florida, man

speaking of places with no cultural significance, i recently had a work trip to florida. i felt more like a foreigner there than pretty much any other place i’ve ever been. but i did have some pretty good grouper tacos and a nice rum punch at a tourist trap near the beach.

get me to god's country.

from the early morning hours (6:11 a.m. to be exact) along the banks of the cottonwood river. i take the portable hermitage (camper) here at least once a year. it’s not far flung by any means or especially interesting in any geographic, topological, or cultural sense. but walking along a river bank on a summer day is a profound, peak experience in my book.

white lotus

maybe this SEO friendly title will draw a stray visitor or two? a golden-hour ish capture from Phuket two years ago. best pineapple fried rice of my life.

fools spring

i’m well aware that we can get another foot of snow at any given moment, but hitting 60 degrees today feels springy enough to post this pic, cherry blossoms in tokyo from 2 years ago.

heaven or grand marais

thank you, random seagull, for providing some balance to this image.

right where i need to be

another great renville county park campsite, on the banks of the mighty minnesota river.

stop and smell the ginkos

no charismatic megafauna or flora here, but this is the mood of the day.