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Photographing mostly critters, plants and rocks. San Francisco, California

Closeup of a pair of sunflowers
(Simpsons) Talking clown doll repairman, holding an evil Krusty the Clown doll: Yep. Here's your problem! Someone set this thing to evil.
Closeup of a tabbycat with her tongue sticking out like some sort of loon.
A three legged radio tower emerging from the fog and casting shadows within it. Sutro Tower, San Francisco.
Closeup of a mess of discarded archaic computer cables.
A two month old tabby kitten looking directly at the camera.
Jay K. Simmons, a California scrub jay, peeping out of a blue bird-themed coffee mug.
Krusty the Clown teaching a class on Funny Place Names. He's holding a sign: "CUCAMONGA"
San Francisco skyline at sunset, March 2026. The glass faced skyscrapers reflect bright sherbet sunset colors as the streetlights come on in the neighborhoods.
Rainbow Valley on Hormuz island in Iran. The mountains are striped yellow, orange, red, blue, white, and purple, like candy. This place seems impossible.
Close up of Jay K. Simmons with a peanut, at sunrise, staring right at us, nut in beak and shells at feet.
Silhouette of a scrub jay shortly after sunup in November, camera pointed at the pale sun burning through the fog.
Quote from Dr. Strangelove: The strange thing is, they make such bloody good cameras.
Bart Simpson and a sad Milhouse in the treehouse: "How could this have happened? We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but instead it ended in tragedy."
A scrub jay on a wooden fence, facing straight at the ground with one eye looking at us.
An American Crow flying in grey fog, caught in stillframe at the bottom of her wingbeat. Lit from above and behind, the bird is a black silhouette with very subtle highlights on shoulder and wing.
(Super) Mario jumping over a green pipe.
Fry: Wait, I'm having one of those things. You know, a headache with pictures. Lela: An idea?
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A green and grey day in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Fogged hills deep in the background with Eucalyptus, Cypress, ferns and mowed meadow in the foreground.
Colin Robinson takes a hit of pure energy.
"Gemini Pro, please create an illustration showing steps for rescuing a bat from a swimming pool" 3-panel illustration. Panel 1: "First carefully approach the pool and confirm that it is a bat in the water…" (person pointing at a struggling bat in a swimming pool) Panel 2: "Gently remove the Bat from the water" (person using a pool skimmer to lift the bat out of the pool) Panel 3: "Place the Bat on a Dry Towel" (person gently placing a wet baseball bat on a towel, on the grass)
Me: "What is the widest bridge in the world?" Gemini: "San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge…258 feet" (true!)
Tabby cat in his burrow, with 90° head turn.
Beloved kitty Zut, looking like an Alex Plante sticker.
Jay K. Simmons still likes that old-tyme rock'n'roll.
"Mating season involves a lot of all-night racket. Remember, most owls are active at night, so that's when they'll be hooting and calling during mating season. If you have neighbors nearby, they won't be very happy about the noise. If the owl is imprinted on humans, it will expect the person it perceives to be its mate to hoot with them regularly." - internationalowlcenter.org
Close up of some flat Lego bricks with studs facing up and 90° sideways.
A cat on her back calmly looks you in the eyes, fluffy tummy offered for free pets and scritches. Do not engage. This is a trap.
Close up of a nearly-mature sunflower bloom.
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A high contrast monochrome photograph of a two-lane road, from a low perspective, all lines converging on the distant horizon. Stenciled on the centerline is a large snail with the word SLOW. Small sand dunes and beach plants edge the road.
Closeup of a bumblebee paying a California poppy a visit. She's in profile grabbing the edge of the flower, wings beating, coming in for a landing. A blue Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) is in the foreground, blue-on-blue veined petals are protected by a tangle of elaborate spikes and tentacles.
A 2025 Blondie comic. Panel 1: the brunette: "What's Dagwood so focused on at the computer?" (contemporarily, none speak akin to this) Panel 2, The eponymous blonde: "Bills! He's been at it for a long time he must be on fire!"; Panel 3, the punchline panel, Dagwood, at the telecomputer, "Another Win! My online poke game is on fire today!!!" This is hilarious only because of how unfunny it is. 1,000 better comics could have filled this space, decades ago. Before color TV.
A blue Scrub Jay isolated in a blue sky, in full dive bomb position– wings swept back, landing gear stowed, his beady eye locked on a target just out of frame… a peanut, perhaps.
Crop of: Closeup of a rusted gate latch hook affixed to a sun bleached wooden post. The texture on the metal is in high relief— brick-red, black and ochre. We can see every last detail of the surface texture.
Closeup of a rusted gate latch hook affixed to a sun bleached wooden post. The texture on the metal is in high relief— brick-red, black and ochre.
Full moon rises over the San Francisco Bay at twilight.
Red and green bocci balls on a court.
The star Vega (Alpha Lyrae) and its bright neighbor stars: Mu Lyrae, Zeta Lyrae, and Epsilon Lyrae 1 and 2. Circled in yellow, an unidentified object.
Timelapse video of the star Vega and an unidentified object. Each frame is 20sec; 5 min total. The first frame of this video has a starlink streak near the center, which shows how much faster low orbit satellites move than this object.
Extreme closeup of a brown cat's nose, with narrow depth of field that blurs most detail.
A wide view of The Lagoon Nebula and the Triffid Nebula embedded in the Milky Way. Hardly a black pixel to be seen, so many bright stars and glowing gas clouds.
Still frame from Raising Arizona. H.I., Ed and Nathan Jr. on the couch, about to get their picture taken.
Extreme closeup of a bumblebee hanging beneath a red clover blossom in a green field. She's a busy fuzzy bee.
A black pig swimming between tree roots in a rainy, muddy swamp, its snout just above the water.
A brown floofy tabby cat lays on her side in a sunny spot surrounded by green fronds and red clover.
Digital image of a thready, tangled, rainbow-pixelated thread. An in-camera artifact created by long exposure and shaky hands.
Closeup photograph of a scrub jay's wing and body in profile. His blue and grey feathers are in sharp focus and highly detailed.
The night sky, focused on the lower half of the constellation Orion. The bright belt stars and Orion's Nebula stand out from a background of a thousand fainter stars.
A screencap of a webpage selling Kona Coffee for $75 per pound.
Otto the cat lying resplendent on an oriental rug, in a beam of sunlight.
Closeup of a California Scrub Jay attempting to fly away with a large peanut. The nut is tied down, it'll take a bit of work to extract.
Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) from Pulp Fiction, yielding his wallet to robbers. Although you cannot see his voter registration card in this shot, you know what party primary he votes in.
Two young apartment cats experiencing their first minutes of freedom since they were found as strays. Zut (foreground) is thinking about descending the stairs, she's leaning her head way out to the side to get a better view; but Otto (back) stays inside, letting her Go First.
The lower half of the Orion constellation showing the Orion Nebula.
Two duotone Sparky refrigerator magnets with "PENGUIN" in bold letters underneath.
Zoidberg in the audience, yelling "BOO"
Closeup of a 45% moon in a blue daytime sky. Luna's plains and craters are clearly visible with plenty of crunchy surface detail. Somehow, never boring.
A black tshirt with large lambda glyph and text "Functional Programming" underneath.