A student sits with his head down, avoiding the bright light of that day. Wouldn’t it have been easier for him to sit in the shade, than to spend several minutes on this sunny bench twisting and turning his head to keep it out of the glare? Was this some ill-planned rendezvous with someone? We… Continue reading this entry

The UMCP Memorial Chapel, after last week’s snowfall. Less than a week after the last snowfall of more than eight inches in College Park, MD, not much is left of the snow. A couple of warm days this week took most of it from the ground. I snapped this picture the day after, on a… Continue reading this entry

Two students smoke close to the doors of McKeldin Library, despite the act being proscribed within fifteen feet of any building entance on campus. If there is one single rationale for the rash of voyeuristic photos that I have recently posted, it’s that this is my first venture in actually photographing people and making them… Continue reading this entry

A student sits, immersed in a phone call. There are many things I like about this photo of a student sitting in front of the Library. The perspective of his figure against the door may be a bit off (depends on your taste, really) but it holds its own strange charm to my eye.

A student studies under the sun on a crisp February morning outside McKeldin Library. I spent last Monday morning walking around campus. I got bored with taking pictures of the usual stuff (there are only so many angles of a building one can take without getting sick of it) that I decided to take candid… Continue reading this entry

A blue lightbulb over the USS Intrepid. I’ve taken my time getting back to writing about apolitical things as I am finishing up on a long-overdue project of mine that simply needs to get done. With the schedule I hold, it’s almost impossible to write anything of great length on my site. In a way,… Continue reading this entry

Against a backdrop of the bright NYC skyline, a couple takes a picture of themselves. Looking through the pictures I have taken in my trip to New York, I realized that my voyeuristic photography didn’t start at the USS Intrepid, but in Central Park, where I took this most candid and most spontaneous of shots.… Continue reading this entry

A tourist prepares for a shot of the city in front of a Blackbird. On New Year’s day itself, we went to the USS Intrepid museum; it was one of the places my friend absolutely had to go to, and I like going to military exhibits. I have been to plenty of museums in my… Continue reading this entry

The NYC skyline as seen from Central Park. I had no intention of blogging while I spent the New Year’s weekend in NYC; with what little time we had, there was no time to blog. Coming out of the Port Authority I was flooded with a sensation both alien and familiar. It was like being… Continue reading this entry

I stole this shot of a student taking a nap outside the Glenn L. Martin building at UMCP. (See this picture on Flickr.)

A student reads the day’s edition of The Diamondback, UMCP’s daily paper, as if in the fashion of Rodin’s The Thinker. (See this picture on Flickr.)

This is how much it costs to buy a soda at the National Zoo. How magnanimous of them to accept $5 bills… (See this picture on Flickr.)

I took this picture outside my home, at an evening where there seemed to be far more contrails than usual overhead. (See this picture on Flickr.)

Out of the many, many pictures from my day at the zoo, these three pictures caught my eye the most and I’m giving them a post of their own: This gray seal takes a break on its rock platform. I got this shot of a pelican on the rocks holding still long enough to be… Continue reading this entry

I’m tired of politicking, and the break that I took this Labor Day weekend was a welcome refuge from Hurricane Katrina blamefests, demands for heads to roll, and other nasty stuff. As beautiful days go, Monday was rare: bright light, a partly cloudy sky with no hazy cover, and a huge drop in humidity all… Continue reading this entry

With a sky ablaze in color, I welcome the coming night. (See this on Flickr.)