#places

88 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, so a state's water is 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.
• DWeb Camp Cascadia 2026 — An amazing community. Four days on Salt Spring Island with the decentralised-web crowd.
• WhereCamp — An unconference for the geo-web crowd. I co-founded it.
• Fun Maps
• Yosemite Hike
• Nasi Goreng — Indonesian fried rice. I ate this constantly on Gili Air, coming in off the reef.
• Photos — Places I've dived, hiked, and paid attention to, by year. Each is a short essay lensed through whatever the place was teaching me.
• 2025 — One trip: Tenerife.
• 2023 — 3 trips: New York, Anilao, Tubbataha.
• 2022 — One trip: Davos.
• 2018 — 2 trips: Komodo, Bali.
• 2017 — One trip: Malta.
• 2015 — 3 trips: Lonquimay, Yosemite, Writing-on-Stone.
• 2014 — One trip: Lake Louise.
• 2013 — One trip: Waskahigan Watchi.
• 2006 — 4 trips: Montana, Writing-on-Stone, Waterton, Lake O'Hara. Catalogued from the old site; the photographs are not yet recovered.
• 2003 — One trip: New Zealand. Catalogued from the old site; the photographs are not yet recovered.
• 2002 — One trip: a month in Patagonia.
• 2001 — 8 trips: Venice, Lake Louise, Lillooet, Burning Man, Fish Creek, Canmore, Lake Chester, Moose Mountain. Catalogued from the old site; the photographs are not yet recovered.
• 1999 — One trip: Argentina, 1999.
• 1996 — One trip: caving in Chiapas, Mexico, in April.
• Tenerife — A volcanic island above the clouds: Teide's black rock, laurisilva forest, and the botany of altitude.
• Tubbataha — Open-ocean atolls two days' sail from land, where the reef is still whole. 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, among the richest water on the planet if you look small enough.
• New York — A winter stretch in the city: museums, old friends, and the density that teaches me the most about systems.
• Waskahigan Watchi — A place that stayed with me.
• Argentina, 1999 — Theo and me, 1999.
• Mexico — A caving expedition to Chiapas with the Alberta Speleological Society, written up at the time, with thirteen photographs.
• Venice — 86 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Lake Louise — 68 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Lillooet — 113 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Burning Man — 94 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Fish Creek — 21 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Canmore — 108 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Lake Chester — 71 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Moose Mountain — 51 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Argentina — A month in Patagonia, January 2002: Bariloche and Tronador, the Puyehue hot springs and volcano in Chile, then Fitz Roy and Torres. Seventy-four photographs, the ones I starred out of the full set.
• Buenos Aires — A day in the city on the way south, 8 January 2002.
• Frey to Jakob — Two days between the refugios above Bariloche, 9 and 10 January 2002.
• Pampa Linda — Under Tronador, January 2002.
• Puyehue baños — The hot springs, mid-January 2002.
• Puyehue peak — Up the volcano, 15 and 16 January 2002.
• Fitz Roy & Torres — Twelve days in the far south, 23 January to 3 February 2002.
• New Zealand — Catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Montana — 587 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Writing-on-Stone — 154 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Waterton — 92 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Lake O'Hara — 440 photographs, catalogued but not yet recovered. The gallery index survives in the Internet Archive; the images do not.
• Digital Twins Wiki — A civic guide to models and simulations of places, on a wiki database of tools, data, practice and worked cases.
• Lita hotel simulation — A hotel as a living simulation: guests, staff, robots and lifts across three floors. Pick an event, a spill or a busy moment, and follow the response. For Lita Hotels.
• Water Atlas — California's water made legible from open data: rivers, gauges, reservoirs, rights and drought.
• Who Drinks the River? — The Colorado River piece from the Futures Desk.
• Cortes Island — A living portrait of Cortes Island.
• Salt Spring Island — A living portrait of Salt Spring Island, a generalized fork of the Cortes one, built during DWeb Camp 2026.
• ontology.monster — The news read nightly into things, kinds and parts, on a map over time.
• Salt Spring ontology — A knowledge graph read from island news.
• The Strait of Hormuz — Futures Desk piece two: the Strait of Hormuz closure and world food.
• Bay Area twin — A luminous, layered portrait of San Francisco Bay in Three.js: earth and seabed, natural forces, living systems, and the built world. Recent, and fun.
• WhereCamp — The geo unconference. Co-founded; now defunct.
• Thingster — An early geo-place app for annotating the world and sharing places.
• 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, on the Mt Whitney trip for my 50th birthday.
• Anselm at Zion, 2016
• Driving through Stout Grove — Redwoods.
• San Antonio Hail Storm — Weather, close up.