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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 I’ve 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 Neptune’s 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 roads— 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 Devil’s Slide, in California.

One of my favorite stops along CA 1, is the old bunker/ battery, just south of Devil’s Slide.

#california #travel #photography #canon #norcal #outdoors #abandoned #westcoast

Here’s the initial illustration of Dr. Nguyen:

Thanks, and yeah, I’ve had an artist do a rough draft for her and the other main character. I’ll post some more of them as well. I’m not much of an artist, so it helps to know one— because visuals are really important!

Other main point, is that she’s never left that moon, even though she’s moved around to different settlements on Triton, and is 28 years old.

She was the first person born on Triton, her parents were some of the original colonists and also terraforming scientists.

Thanks!! And it’s 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. She’s one of my favorites in the story!

Character art of the main character from book 1 of my upcoming scifi trilogy, the Outer Rings— 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 Salta— 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 Neptune’s moon of Triton, also the first person born on that moon.

Art credit to: Alannah Lazaro

#scifi #indieauthor #writer #author #sciencefiction

Thanks!! It’s 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.

Finally set a date to publish my first book— and the first book in the Outer Rings series ‘Hic Salta’

Looking forward to posting more about this in between my photography and Star Trek jokes.

#scifi #sciencefiction #indieauthor #author #writer

Yesterday!

Photo 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 I’ve ever played— 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

Who’s 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 I’m 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

It’s 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!!

Photo 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.

It’s 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