Henry’s Blog

Last week Sara and I went on a road trip to Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, visiting 8 national parks along the way (Great Basin, Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Death Valley). It was an incredible trip with lots of photography opportunities. I’ve been working on some new scripts to process the photos in a speedier fashion, hoping to have them online this week.

In the mean time, some new photos of the Cats, including this one of Riley with his new friend, a Bobcat stuffed animal we picked up at the Visitors Center in Death Valley.

There’s an upcoming art exhibit “EExhibition - The Fine Art of Engineers” in San Francisco, and several of my photographs have been selected. This will be my first art exhibit! Doug Raymond is also in the exhibit. We’d be delighted if you could join us for the opening reception on Thursday December 7th from 6:30-10:00pm at Red In Studios 1035 Market Street (between 6th & 7th) in San Francisco. The show runs through December 23rd. More information can be found at: http://www.redinkstudios.org/eexhibition/

To get to 1035 Market, get off at Civic Center BART. Come up the escalator on the south sidewalk of Market Street. Go 250 paces East on Market (toward the Bay). The gallery is in in the middle of the block, on the right, in a huge blue building. It’s not the best neighborhood, so go in a group, or go in daylight hours.

Over the past few years I’ve collected thousands of frames of time lapse digital photography in my travels. Time lapse photography is the process of shooting a series of photos with a brief delay between shots, then playing them back at hight speed.

Part 1 - Nature

Part 2 - Driving

Folks have been asking for photos from Hawaii. There photos have been up but a little hard to find. Click here for the photos.

First there was Stuff On My Cat, now there’s Cats That Looks Like Hitlers, or Kitlers. Keep those cat photos coming.

On the Thursday before our Sara and I got married Sara lead the women into San Francisco for her final dress fitting while Dad, Mike, and I visited the USS Hornet an aircraft carrier moored at the old Alameda Point Naval Base, now open as a museum. Dad served on the USS Independence in the early 1960s and showed us many familiar sites on the Hornet. Much of the ship is open to the public and free tours are offered engine room, captain and admirals quarters, and the command decks. Definitely worth a visit.

With less than 24 hours to go before the start of the Tour de France in Strasbourg comes the news that a number of the top contenders have been implicated in Operation Puerto, the Spanish investigation into illegal use of performance enhancing drugs and other techniques. As many of 58 riders may be involved at this point and 9 have been kicked out of the Tour. Among them are Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso, the two favorites, and Francisco Mancebo (last year’s 4th place finisher). I’m shocked and saddened, especially at the implicated involvement of my perennial underdog favorite, Ullrich.

I’m still excited for this years Tour and what’s now a wide open field of contenders. I’ll be following along on OLN. Saturday’s prologue promises excitement with the return of David Miller and the American time trial specialist David Zabriskie. I’ll be on the edge of the couch cheering them on!

For more reading, news stories from Phil Liggett, Velo News, ProCycling, and the San Francisco Cronicle.

For as long as I can remember I’ve been a fan of trains. Growing on just a few feet from the main line of the Long Island Railroad and setting up Lionel trains around the Christmas tree got me started. Then small HO and N scale layouts, and lots of arm chair model railroading. Finally I’ve got the opportunity to work on a big layout, I’ve joined the Silicon Valley Lines in San Jose: A 23′ x 72′ two layer layout.

For the past couple of weeks I’ve helped out with wiring up switches and this Friday is operations night, where we get to run the trains all around the layout

Being from Long Island my first purchase for the club in the Atlas Diesel locomotive with the old Long Island color scheme:

If you’re a Bay Area model railroading fan, come and join us on Friday!

It’s been a while since my last blog posting. The last few months we’ve been keeping busy planning our wedding. Now we’re back from our Honeymoon in Hawaii and the photos are starting to coming in. First up, the official wedding photos and the same photos in black & white. Lots more photos from Sara, Doug, Branwyn, and Stephen.

Henry’s photos from Getting Ready and The Big Day.

Ayaz has posted a wonderful collection of photos from the rehersal, wedding, and reception at his website. You will need to login as HenrySara with password eharmony

More photos to come!

PS: Reports of my drowning in Hawaii are (thankfully) not true. My co-worker Dave reported hearing the news while also in Hawaii this past weekend.

The yearly fundraiser by the Africa Well Fund includes auctions of U2 concert photos by fans. Seven of my POP Mart photos are up for auction. Click on the photos to see the auction pages: