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On Christmas Day, we went for a hike to Big Creek Falls in Yosemite. It's an old trail, not maintained anymore, but supposedly a great destination. We confirmed its existence with Tom Bopp who new…

This is the raw photo from an iPhone XS taken with the stock camera. This is a raw photo from a OnePlus 6 taken with the default camera: Both picture were taken from the same…

The walk In the endless quest to explore the local parks, we headed over to Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley. We picked an easy trail and head into the mist. The Quarry Trail to Lower…

Comparison of the same photo taken with both cameras, as RAW format. The top photo is the mirrorless camera. The bottom is the iPhone using Halide camera app. The iPhone photo was cropped down to…

From the courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery. [gallery ids="29048,29049,29050,29051,29052,29053" type="rectangular" link="file" orderby="rand"]

From Ina Coolbrith Park.

Hiking down Yosemite Falls and took this picture as we came around a bend.

I have a renewed love of street food, satay, and Singapore (and apparently words which begin with s). San Francisco has a hustle and bustle and busy-ness about itself. As does New York. It seems…

Increasingly, I find myself just using my smartphone for photography on trips. The combination of always having it on my person, advanced camera apps to better control the focus, lighting, and the geotagging to subtly…

A long-tailed macaque from the Batu Cave in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.