In addition to using this blog as a vehicle to share my various photo projects, I have found that some of my posts have generated interest because of the nature of the stories or because they carry a more personal tone. Unfortunately, they eventually scroll out of sight in the blog roll, and so to let me find them again, I will try and maintain an index here. (last update: July 2026)
They are organized into categories, but not necessarily the same as the WordPress categories they were filed under, and not all of them are here. For the complete, most recent list of these posts according to their categories, see the menu item “Blog->Post Index by Subject“
- Personal Essays/Stories
- Career’s End – my first blog entry, with thoughts about how I got here
- Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
- The Color of the Moon – tuning in to the 1969 moon landing
- Retirement Inauguration – priorities reverse
- Of Nikons and Nikomats – cameras have evolved as I have aged
- Seven Years After … the “Happily Ever After Party”
- Checking the Mail – back when we lived on a rural route
- A day in the life of a covid quarantiner
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery – playing detective with family portraits
- Science or Sentiment, and Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- A Night on the Playa , Part 2 – magic in the desert
- Another Chapter Ends – motorcycle musings
- A Tradition Resumes – making sausage for the holidays
- Late Life Love – an unexpected proposal
- Symmetry, Confluence, Harmonic Convergence, and things like that
- Late Life Love, Continued – celebrating ten years of it
- Smithereens – I don’t think that word means what you think it means
- The #$%&! Hoover Dam – opinions can change
- Yosemite Breakdown, and Tenaya Lake – by Ansel Adams
- Septuagenarian Surprise – I wasn’t expecting this
- Tributes – acknowledging the people who influenced my life
- Jackie’s Last Moonrise
- Full House – a tribute to siblings
- The Silent Key – a tribute to ham radio operators everywhere
- The Wall of Books – the back story, written by my dad about his dad.
- Dad’s Dressing – a family recipe released into the wild
- Salt Flat Tracks – my first road trip
- Indirect Endowment – supporting a college student… forever!
- Anecdotal Tribute – to my uncle, Dr Robert Olson
- Confronting Challenges – my uncle’s memoir of his year in Vietnam 1970-71
- A Retirement Tribute – to Fred Nourbakhsh
- Notes for Ninety – speaker notes for a 90th birthday party
- Bill Glass is Gone – a long time associate and friend passes unexpectedly
- Know-How for Whom? – my dad’s legacy lives on
- Other Plans – my sister Laurie’s life happened while making them
- Flamenco Memories – discovering the life of a former roommate
- One Cup of Coffee – a story about my great-grandfather
- The Square Lion – the backstory of a glass cake plate
- Technology Musings
- Cathode Rays and The Burn-Hole Club
- Behind Gamma’s Disguise
- Csuri Exhibit Poster
- What is my Risk? and The Fifteen Minute Rule with other covid recommendations
- An Oscar for Solitaire – the story of the award by one of the inventors
- Stonehenge and Solitaire – technologies of their day
- LEGOs for Life – Observations of a builder
- The Roving Photons – warning, nerd humor
- Trapped like Mars Flies in a Klein Bottle
- Open Pits and Bathtubs – progress in iron mining from a hotel bathroom
- Launching CRISIS – seeking cosmic rays from a balloon
- TAT Productions: the filmstrip
- Chips and Challenges – keeping up with technology
- Instruments Evolve – they don’t make ’em like they used to
- Gravitation, The Book
- An Old Programmer Tries New Tricks
- An Old Photographer Tries New Tricks
- Projects – projects that merited a blog entry or more
- Swedish Candelabras – Swedish hygge
- When Given Cold Weather… freeze soap bubbles
- A Penrose Floor – the first of a series of posts on this project
- The Relay Clock. In 1975, I made one of telephone relays and elevator readouts.
- Salvaging Home Movies. Converted from 16mm film from the 1930s – 1960s.
- Viewmaster Reel. Depth from 2D with the help of AI.
- Timelapse projects. Here are some that I’m pleased with, but there is still much to learn.
- Toward a Personal Radiometer – the beginning of another project
- Glass Blowing – getting the right stuff
- Vacuum Systems – the wrong stuff
- The Universe in 3D – stereo views as God might see it
- Cloud Chamber Update – tracks found in the mist
- Travel
- Monuments at Night – a remarkable trip to Monument Valley
- Copenhagen Solstice Celebration – the Danes ring in Christmas
- The Best Dinner of my Life – world travel has its rewards
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame – our travel style gets noticed
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1 – an adventure in Death Valley
- Field Trip: Harvard Biology Labs – we find the scene of an old photo
- The Binning Mosaic Mural – a hidden treasure in Vancouver
- Eyewitness to Climate Change – comparing old photos
- Valley of Dreams Parts 1, and 2: A night under the Alien Throne
- A Tourist Visits the Statue of Liberty
- Ticket to Vesuvius, and Ticket to Ride – adventures in Naples
- To Fin del Mundo and Beyond!
- Antarctica!