Giraffe family in the Hogle Zoo, Utah (June 2025)

October 24th, 2025 | Tags: Hogle Zoo, NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera, utah, wildlife | Category: Other | Comments Off on Giraffe calf

Winter Palace interior (Saint Petersburg, Russia – July 2019)

We seem to watch films by recently deceased actors these days. Diane Keaton died almost a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve watched three films she is in since. Reds (1981) was the most recent one. I was surprised to see scenes apparently shot in the Winter Palace (which is now the Hermitage Museum) in the film. Alas, they were not actually filmed there. Instead the Lancaster House in London was used for the interiors, and those scenes looked very legit in Reds.

October 23rd, 2025 | Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, buildings, hermitage, Nikon D500 | Category: Saint Petersburg | Comments Off on St George’s Hall in the Winter Palace

Sculpture of Franz Liszt in Budapest

Liszt was metal a bit before Black Sabbath and the rest of the pioneers of the genre. His “hair” in this sculpture shows what a headbanger he was in the 19th Century.

October 22nd, 2025 | Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR, metal, Nikon D750 | Category: Budapest | Comments Off on Happy birthday, Franz Liszt!

甘泉園公園 (February 18, 2010)

My random, desktop image of the day comes from nearly 16 years ago. The “tree tents” (雪吊) are there for days like that one in February (although I don’t think there was enough snow to make them useful).

October 21st, 2025 | Tags: snow, Tokyo, winter, yukitsuri, 甘泉園公園 | Category: Japan | Comments Off on Tokyo snow

Enslaved @ UC Theatre (4/21/23)

October 20th, 2025 | Tags: berkeley, concert photography, enslaved, metal, Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-75mm f/2.8 Lens, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera | Category: Other | Comments Off on Metal Monday