Catching light | Radiant clouds in Altamont

Caught: the sun having a lazy day in the summer sky. A pic with a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 The week before last as we driving through Interstate 580 (I-580)…

Painted skies, silhouettes and warm glows

Sunsets are mesmerizing. What better way to end a day than watch a sunset? And even after the sun goes down, the effects are there, up in the sky. Look…

Happy 4th!

Here are some pictures from the 4th of July Celebration at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, CA a couple of years ago.  (Pictures from a point-and-shoot. July, 2013.) Happy…

Catching some NorCal light

Caught: some afternoon (sun)light, North California. These pictures of the sunlight filtering through leaves, were taken on one of our trips between California and Washington. Location: one of the ‘rest…

Catching some O’Hare lights

Caught: some natural light and some man-made ones. From a room with a view of O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL. (some cell-phone photos from last week.) More airport lights and…

A Bay of Bengal break o’ day

A Bay of Bengal sunrise, a couple of weeks ago. One morning in Injambakkam, a suburb of Chennai, Tamilnadu. Waiting for the sun to come up. And then a sign…

Catching Light | Sunlit Valley

Catching the light on a sunlit valley somewhere in Monterey California. I caught this sight during a drive from Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA to the Bay Area. Linking this post to the…

Skywatch | A cloudy Wayanadan evening

I spent the whole of last week in the middle of a plantation in Wayanad, one of Kerala’s districts that lie on the Western Ghats. In the middle of the…

The light is on (again)

I found this light on a highway-side ‘rest area’ on the way to the Pacific Northwest (from California). Catching some North California light. Linking to meme — I’m so, so…

Ducks to go!

Ducks to go.  On one of our trips to the 17- Mile Drive in Monterey, California, I came across this car that had DUCKS writ all over it.  We had…