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.

In case you haven’t heard, its snowing hardcore all over the east coast. Unfortunately, it’s Fashion Week so I can’t call off work and go sledding in Central Park. Here are a few shots I grabbed on a very cold walk to lunch.

To give you an idea of this particular street’s character, while wandering around, a man in a truck pulled over to ask me if I was taking photos of prostitutes.

This week’s wanderings took me from La Jolla to Pacific Beach, from Serra Mesa to North Park. I shot a lot of windows during my people-watching. Highlights included an engaging conversation with my favorite local demigod Slomo.

When the local deluge stopped and the sky was suddenly looking clear, I made a jaunt to the nearest strip mall, where I found a pack of teenagers psyching up for their Friday night.

San Diego collectively said “WTF” yesterday when the area received a tornado warning.

Today I was in North Park, strolling up University Avenue for about half an hour.

If my weekly routine is any indicator, “Sunday Morning Sidewalk” may become a familiar sight here on Meridian. It’s just me and my camera, pounding some pavement on a carefree weekend afternoon.

Google is an amazing tool. Not only will scouring the complete LIFE Magazine archives on Google Books yield some classic photo essays, but Google Scholar now searches court opinions. Both these Google tools helped illuminate the funky back story on a LIFE article from 1963.

Getting the photo of cargo ships was as simple as chatting up a Queens native named Mike.