Old sign outside of Rice Bowl restaurant in Merced

This picture is of an old sign out front of a restaurant in my hometown called the Rice Bowl. I liked this picture when I took it, and I had almost completely forgotten about it.

Religious man on corner of Alexander and G Street in Merced - 2009

I went back to my hometown of Merced, California in 2009 after a long absence. I saw this guy several times along a main thoroughfare called G Street. I talked to him several times. One time I had my camera, and I asked him if I could take his picture and put it up on the internet. He was very excited about the idea.

Google Ukulele Hobbit

This picture doesn't exactly qualify as one of my favorite pictures, but there's somethings behind it.

So, first off, this picture was taken at a place in Seattle called the Pike Place Market.

Second, and most obviously, do you see the sticker that says "Google Ukulele Hobbit"? Well, this is an odd little message that someone has plastered up all over Seattle. But it is kind of a trick, a play on words, I guess.

If you "google" the term "Ukulele Hobbit", you will get these results. The "google" part doesn't matter, it's all just an attempt to get you to the website of a "busker", or street performer.

Flower in sunlight at N 46th and Dayton

This picture is of a flower in the sun. There's this area at the corner of N 46th and Dayton Avenue that always has nice flowers.

Random photo shot from North 50th Street in North Seattle

Here is a flower shot that came out alright. I took a couple photos of flowers along North 50th Street in North Seattle.

With flower photos, I often had a lot of focus problems and ended up discarding a great many of them.

Red flower in the U-District P-Patch

Random shot of a red flower inside of the University District P-Patch community garden. I remember liking this photo at the time I took it, and I still like it now.

This was one of a group of photos I took once in the U-District P-Patch.

Flower in the U-District P-Patch

Flower pictures are hard. Don't let their girlish charms fool you for one second. When I started taking pictures, I was like, "oh yeah, you know, flowers. They're nice. They're pretty. Shouldn't they be easy to take pictures of?"

Uh, no. Of all the things I took pictures of, I probably ended up discarding more flower pictures than anything else.

This is a random flower shot that I took at the U-District P-Patch community garden. I used to live on the same street as this P-Patch. I liked the idea of a flower behind a chain link fence.

I ended up taking a number of photos inside of the U-District P-Patch.