#places

39 items tagged places.

• Limits — Written at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park — on limits, land and scale.
• Place Finding — On finding, naming and sharing places.
• Stepping Off a Plane — Late autumn, Bucharest, 2012 — arriving somewhere dressed for the wrong life.
• Soccoro Dive Trip: Manta Dreams — A January dive trip to Socorro Island to tag oceanic manta rays.
• Dive Trip, September 2022 — Musings on reef ecologies, Balinese cultures, and Western values.
• Straight to Cortes (Island) in BC — A few days of exploring Cortes.
• New New California Water Atlas — Rebuilding the California Water Atlas — making a state's water legible again.
• What Comes After the Lloyd Center? — Portland's beloved but beleaguered Lloyd Center and skating rink come to an end.
• Sacramento's Downtown Design Catastrophe — Exploring the madness of crowds. Co-written with Olivia.
• Fun Maps
• Yosemite Hike
• Photos — Places I've dived, hiked, and paid attention to. Each is a short essay lensed through whatever the place was teaching me.
• Tenerife — A volcanic island above the clouds — Teide's black rock, laurisilva forest, and the strange botany of altitude.
• Tubbataha — Open-ocean atolls two days' sail from land — one of the last places the reef is still what a reef is supposed to be. My own photographs, March 2023.
• Komodo — Cold upwellings and manta cleaning stations; dragons on the beach above.
• Malta — Limestone, wrecks, and eight thousand years of people stacking stone at the middle of the sea.
• Lonquimay — A great hike on the Chile / Argentine border. Araucaria and ash in the Andes.
• Writing-on-Stone — Hoodoos on the Milk River and the largest concentration of rock art on the North American plains.
• Anilao — Muck diving in the Verde Island Passage — the richest square of ocean on the planet, if you look small enough.
• New York — A winter stretch in the city — museums, old friends, and the density that still teaches me the most about systems.
• Waskahigan Watchi — A place that stayed with me.
• Argentina, 1999 — Theo and me, 1999.
• Thingster — An early geo-place app — annotate the world, share places, long before it was common.
• ARPersist — Persistent AR in the browser, using ARKit to hold centimetre-accurate anchors across sessions and devices.
• ATerrain — A 3D geographic rendering component for A-Frame, built on Cesium data.
• 4x4: Badger Lake, Mt Hood — A trail run near Mt Hood.
• 4x4: Skull Hollow, Smith Rock — Cell tower track near Smith Rock.
• Lazy Turtle, Gili Air — A turtle taking its time. Gili Air, October 2025.
• Accidentally Running Bay to Breakers — 2002, or thereabouts.
• A Slightly Accidental Hike at Zion — Not entirely the planned route.
• Whitney Peak — Looking Around — July 2017.
• Whitney Peak — A Phone Call — Kind of funny, in context.
• ARPersist — Single Player — A quick example of ARPersist in single-player mode.
• ARPersist — Detailed Walkthrough — A fuller walkthrough, January 2019.
• Whitney Timberline — Climbing out through the timberline on Mt Whitney — the trip for my 50th birthday.
• Whitney Forester Hike, Day 3 — Day three over Forester Pass — the Mt Whitney trip for my 50th birthday.
• Anselm at Zion, 2016
• Driving through Stout Grove — Redwoods.
• San Antonio Hail Storm — Weather, close up.