Photo of a MSC cargo ship being turned around in the Oakland turning basin.
Box boat afternoons.
#travel #photography #california #bayarea #eastbay #ships #shipspotting #maritime
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Photo of a MSC cargo ship being turned around in the Oakland turning basin.
Box boat afternoons.
#travel #photography #california #bayarea #eastbay #ships #shipspotting #maritime
Photo of a textured sand dune in white sands national park.
Looking out along one of the incredible dunes at White Sands National Park. Visited here in the middle of winter, and it was incredible to see the place almost completely empty.
#photography #travel #southwest #newmexico #whitesands #canon #nature #landscape
Photo of a tall rock formation rising up out of Lake Powell, in the southwestern United States.
Rock formations at Lake Powell- definitely one of the cooler places Iβve seen in the southwest. And also not a place that was even remotely on my radar before getting there.
#travel #photography #Utah #arizona #southwest #canon #outdoors #desert #lake
Post introducing Dr. Traci Nguyen, the main character of book 1 in my scifi series, Outer Rings.
She was the first person born on Neptuneβs moon of Triton, and is one of the lead Terraforming Scientists there.
Art by: Alannah Lazaro
#scifi #writer #author #indieauthor #fiction #characterart
Photo of a backroad heading off into the horizon, where a low mountain range can be seen. I believe this was taken in Nevada, near US 50.
The loneliest roadsβ pretty sure this was Nevada, near US 50, during a big southwest road trip a few years ago.
#travel #photography #southwest #canon #roadtrip #nevada #explore #desolation
Photo of the sandstone cliff walls along the edge of Montara Beach, in Northern California.
Montara Beach, on a good day. Still one of my all time favorite beaches in California.
#californa #norcal #beach #westcoast #cali #photography #travel
Photo of the exposed and graffiti covered world war 2 bunker, just south of Devilβs Slide, in California.
One of my favorite stops along CA 1, is the old bunker/ battery, just south of Devilβs Slide.
#california #travel #photography #canon #norcal #outdoors #abandoned #westcoast
Hereβs the initial illustration of Dr. Nguyen:
23.02.2026 06:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks, and yeah, Iβve had an artist do a rough draft for her and the other main character. Iβll post some more of them as well. Iβm not much of an artist, so it helps to know oneβ because visuals are really important!
23.02.2026 06:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Other main point, is that sheβs never left that moon, even though sheβs moved around to different settlements on Triton, and is 28 years old.
23.02.2026 05:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0She was the first person born on Triton, her parents were some of the original colonists and also terraforming scientists.
23.02.2026 05:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks!! And itβs mostly terraforming scientists, focused on creating a moon-wide atmosphere, and using the natural processes from the moon to accomplish that. I just made a post about the main character, Dr. Traci Nguyen, a scientist. Sheβs one of my favorites in the story!
23.02.2026 04:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Character art of the main character from book 1 of my upcoming scifi trilogy, the Outer Ringsβ it shows Dr. Traci Nguyen, a scientist, dressed in a heavy coat and holding a tablet.
Book cover art for the first book in the Outer Ring Series, Hic Saltaβ shows a ship preparing to land near a bunch of pale blue mountains.
This is Dr. Traci Nguyen, the main character from my upcoming scifi novel, Outer Rings: book 1, Hic Salta.
She is a lead Terraforming scientist on Neptuneβs moon of Triton, also the first person born on that moon.
Art credit to: Alannah Lazaro
#scifi #indieauthor #writer #author #sciencefiction
Thanks!! Itβs about a terraforming colony dealing with outsiders trying to set up a resource extraction site nearby and the threat that poses to their future and safety.
23.02.2026 04:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Finally set a date to publish my first bookβ and the first book in the Outer Rings series βHic Saltaβ
Looking forward to posting more about this in between my photography and Star Trek jokes.
#scifi #sciencefiction #indieauthor #author #writer
Yesterday!
21.02.2026 21:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Photo looking down a snowy desert road, toward Mono Lake in the background.
Snowy desert, looking down toward Mono Lake.
#california #travel #photography #canon #desert #winter #snow #monolake #monocounty #wilderness #roadtrip
Photo of a travel chess board set up by Cottonwood lake 4, on the way to the summit of Mount Langley, in California.
Best game of chess Iβve ever playedβ along the shore of Cottonwood Lake 4, on the way up Mount Langley, CA.
#travel #photography #canon #california #socal #mountains #highsierra #inyo #sierranevada #outdoors #explore #chess
Whoβs got two thumbs and just bought a ticket to STLV?
This guy.
#startrek #trekkie #trektalk #stlv #lasvegas #scifi
Close up photo of an iguana, in Panama back in 2007.
Older photo of a curious iguana, in Panama.
This was from 2007, and Iβm not quite sure of the specific type, so any help on that front would be much appreciated!
#travel #photography #canon #panama #Caribbean #iguana #reptiles #wildlife #animals #tropical
Itβs been a rough couple of days dealing with the intense ion storms rolling through the badlands.
#startrek #trekkie #trektalk #ruralife #california #winter
Were the Progenitors also responsible for creating the Voth with their reckless genetic exercises?
And if so, do the Voth prove that saurians evolve quicker than non-saurians given the same conditions?
#startrek #trekkie #trektalk #deepthoughts
Partial photo of the lower levels of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France. On a gloomy day.
Gloomy day in Paris.
Really loved cold grey days in this city.
#paris #photography #europe #travel #architecture #Eiffeltower #france
Thanks!!
18.02.2026 16:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Photo of Boston city street, with large glass skyscraper in the background. Used editing tools to adjust image for HDR.
This was one of the pictures that got me into HDR photography for a while. Thought it looked like a glass tsunami coming down the streets of Boston.
#boston #Massachusetts #photography #canon #travel #architecture #urban #newengland
Woke up to the first real ion storm of the winter.
Adventures of a rural Trekkie (part 1):
#startrek #trekkie #rural #norcal #california #winter #storm
Photo, looking up along the edge of the John Hancock Building, in Boston MA. With clouds and an old brick building reflected in the glass.
Itβs a little abstract, but this is my favorite photo of the John Hancock building in Boston.
Just glass and clouds.
#travel #photography #canon #boston #Massachusetts #newengland #architecture #reflection #clouds #sky #glass
Texture photo of dry and cracked mud, with a foot print near the center of the image.
Dry lake bed- somewhere in Northern California.
For a while, I was obsessed with texture photos, and really liked the small footprint in this one.
#california #texture #nature #photography #canon #outdoors #drought
Vertical panorama image of the Sentinel building, in San Francisco, with the transAmerican pyramid in the background.
Always loved this particular intersection, and have more pictures of the Sentinel Building/ Pyramid, than I care to admit.
#travel #photography #sanfrancisco #california #bayarea #norcal #thecity #architecture
Video from a good hike yesterday in the high desert, of Northern California.
The birds were very active, likely due to the unseasonably warm weather up here.
#outdoors #travel #california #hiking #norcal #birds #wilderness #highdesert