Testing out Lightroom 3′s tethering capabilities at home is incredibly entertaining.

Musician and producer Bonnie Wright, for San Diego CityBeat.

My sidewalk strolls have been replaced as of late by weekend excursions to California’s national parks. Here’s a set from a night hike in Joshua Tree National Park, starting at the popular Jumbo Rocks campground, during which I experimented with the light cast by headlights worn by myself and my brother.

Washington-based artist Dale Chihuly showed up at Luis Kahn’s Salk Institue in La Jolla for a short photo op with his latest exhibit of glass sculpture.

After over a YEAR, I have finally updated my website ladies and gentlemen.

I’m still working on it (the scans of all my published work are not cooperating). Will would like me to take down my essays except for my most recent “Forever Young,” but since I haven’t been working on stories, I don’t have anything else to fill in here at this moment. What do you think?

A piñata in a window caught my eye walking down University Avenue in City Heights, and I knew I had to see if this so-called ‘pinata house’ would live up to its name.

It seems my standard walk whenever I’m in La Jolla is to start with the seals at Children’s Beach and make my way to the Sea Lions of La Jolla Cove.

This week I took a trip up to Bakersfield to shoot some portraits of my dad, singer J. Parson, for the album art on his next release. It was just before feeding time, so the horses repeatedly intruded, tried to eat my umbrella and ultimately made for some good shots.

After a month’s hiatus, Sunday Morning Sidewalk is back! This week I took a friend’s Holga for a spin one last time before returning it.

They say a good photographer never shares his/her contact sheets. Let’s just say that “Digital Contact Sheet” is a nonrandom sample geared toward the interesting, and will happen again whenever I deem a raw series of photos worth sharing for educational or entertainment purposes.