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.