Straight-up neat: Question about image file types, answered by JPL #
Last Thursday, Stephanie and I set off on our annual pilgrimage to France. In the hopes that we’d acclimate to the nine hour time zone difference sooner, we spent the week before the trip waking up two hours earlier than…
From l’aéroport in Paris we traveled by train to Loriol-sur-Drôme—the town where Jean-Claude, Sabine, and Gaïa (Stephanie’s dad’s family) live. We stopped there to take a much-needed shower before continuing by car to Ruoms, a village across the Rhone where…
The sound of summer in the south of France: Or if you just want the audio: Download: French Cicada (cigale)
A typical ruelle in the Vieil Antibes My experience with the Leica has sparked a renewed appreciation for black and white—even when I’m shooting in color with a digital camera, as was the case here.
Basse Rue in the old town of Annot It was hard to choose whether to post this in color or black and white. Since I’ve got a thing going here, I decided to stick with the latter. You’ll just have…
A table and chair on Rue de l’Orbitelle Together with her mom and aunt, Stephanie and I took the narrow-gauge Train des Pignes to visit the medieval walled city of Entrevaux. After stopping first to visit the town of Annot,…
BBQ à la Française In short: the whole barnyard. Pictured above, there’s the ever popular chipolata (pork sausage) and merguez (spicy lamb sausage), plus dinde (turkey), and médaillons de porc au lard (bacon-wrapped pork loin). Not pictured, but grilled later…
Flying over a solitary boat in the Mediterranean After two satisfying weeks with Stephanie’s family, we were on a plane, flying home to San Francisco. It’s funny because it was at exactly the same time last year—almost to the day—that…
Straight-up neat: Question about image file types, answered by JPL #
Slice of life in Ghana:
Stumbled upon this quote the other day. I quite like it:
“To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something—something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors such an odd eccentric instant was without significance—did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, [James] Watt and [George] Stephenson were part inventors of time.” –Aldous Huxley
Contrast this with: Leap Second crashes half the internet #
Probably going to be musing on this for a while: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (via Kottke) #
Stephanie and I were interviewed for an article in French Morning: J’ai traversé l’Atlantique en cargo #
I always wondered what those were: Dot Urbanism (kind of like those brick circles) #