Point Lobos

ISO 64 is really a must for landscape photographer.

Test Shot with D810 and A6000 at Shoreline Park

D810 Test Shot at Shoreline Park

Tracking Sea Otter and Others at Santa Cruz

The sea otter in water looks like E.T.

Stainbeck Center and Downtown Salinas

Homeless sitting in front of the Steinbeck Mural.

Photos of migrant workers by my hero, Dorothea Lange.

"Travel with Charley" camper. They even put a fake Charley in the front seat!

A peek inside the Charley camper

My lunch (and dinner)

Mission San Juan Bautista

Visiting the 21 Missions is on my bucket list. So far, I had only visited 4 of them.

Plaza Hotel at San Juan Bautista

NASA Ames Research Center (Visitor Center)

This 3D earth projection is created by combining 4 different projectors (each separated 90 degree).

Real life sized model of ISS (International Space Station). 

A peek inside the ISS model. Gives you an idea about the scale.

Exercise machines for astronauts inside ISS.

Space shuttle simulator. It is really a human interface design challenge to design all these controls. Now I think it's a miracle that someone can fly it without making any mistakes.

Space suites for Mercury and Gemini Mission in the 60s.

Look at the detail, the early space suite is really primitive. Zipper and duck tape!

NASA's recent missions. These new missions are smaller scaled and in my opinion more successful than many costly missions.

My favorite recent NASA mission, the Kepler mission. The Kepler telescope discovers so many new planets and the data it gathered truly challenges the existing model of how planets are formed. (I am seeing some future Nobel prize here.)  The mission was so successful that it even got extended. 

Thanks to the Kepler mission, now we know there are more potentially habitable planets then we originally thought. The chance of discovering alien species becomes much higher. 

The IRIS mission, a telescope to observe the Solar atmosphere. It reminds me the sci-fi movie "Sunshine". (I am glad they didn't name it "Icarus".)

Instead of building an expensive telescope in outer space like Hubble, the Sofia mission put an Infrared telescope on an airplane and fly it there. It's cheaper and easier to maintain.

An infrared selfie on screen.