I was saddened to read of the death of Pope Francis when I got up this morning. While I’m not a Roman Catholic, I had enormous respect for Francis...
If you celebrate Easter, I hope you have a great day. Actually, regardless of what you may or may not be celebrating, have a great day! Here’s an image...
I had a very pleasant evening yesterday catching up with Paul Anderson who was traveling through Austin on his way to a workshop out west. I introduced...
Members of FIRST Robotics Competition team 5893, Energy HEROs from Energy Institute High School in Houston, at the FIRST in Texas District event at Bell...
FIRST Championships, with 600 teams from around the world playing on 8 parallel fields, is taking place this week at the George R. Brown Convention Center...
Here’s another of the puffin portraits from my trip to Scotland back in July 2014. We spotted them on the island of Lunga in the Treshnish Isles,...
I found a bunch of overlooked frames while going through the images from our 2014 puffin-watching trip so here’s another. This is an Atlantic puffin...
Apparently today is National Puffin Day so here’s a picture of an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) I took in Scotland back in July 2014 during...
FIRST Robotics Competition team 2468, Team Appreciate, from Westlake High School in Austin will be competing with around 600 teams from around the world...
Fans from another sport today. Here are a group of supporters of Dutch driver Max Verstappen on the grid at Circuit of the Americas, Austin following the podium...
Continuing the theme of sporting fans, here are a group of enthusiastic Texas supporters attending the September 28th, 2024 football game between the UT Longhorns...
Members of the Longhorn Hellraisers in the stands at Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin during the football game between Texas and the University of Kentucky...
Let’s leave penguins for a while and move closer to home with a few pictures taken at recent football games. Here’s a shot of a couple of friendly...
This lone Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua) jumped onto a beached iceberg and watched us intently as we motored past in a zodiac at Petermann Island, Antarctica...
We spotted this group of Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on New Island in the Falklands on December 19th, 2024 as they were making their way down a penguin...
Staying with penguins, here’s another image from my favourite location of our December expedition. This was taken at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia,...
I got back onto penguin images again yesterday so here’s another. We spent an hour or so on December 19th last year fascinated by groups of Gentoo...
All this talk of tariffs levied on uninhabited Antarctic islands is obviously causing stress to this poor King Penguin spotted at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia...
Construction continues over on Rainey Street in downtown Austin. Here’s the view as of March 28th, 2025 with significant progress visible since my last...
Another exciting addition to the Austin skyline is close to being ready. The Republic, with a scheduled completion date this summer, is a 48 floor office...
