There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. --Ansel Adams--

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then surely a picture with a brief explanatory caption is worth a million.  Please feel free to browse the captioned pictures below.  Click on a picture to see the full-sized image (or in some cases, video).

This deep-space photo of a small region of the sky filled with galaxies just blows my mind.

Me, standing next to Hobbes, my home-made 8-node Beowulf cluster, shortly after finishing it.

Some members of the UIUC student chapter of SIGArt, Spring 2003

Some members of the UIUC student chapter of SIGArt, Spring 2004

Some members of the UIUC student chapter of SIGArt, Spring 2005

Mornings of the 2005-2006 school year in Pittsburgh, as seen from my apartment window (video)

Mornings of the 2003-2004 school year at UIUC, as seen from my window at Sherman Residence Hall (video)

The town of Banff, Canada, as seen from the top of Sulfur Mountain.

A view from the lower pastures on my family's farm in Cuba, MO, December 2002

My father, self, and brother respectively, sitting atop the Tooth of Time at Philmont, New Mexico, long ago

Most of my extended family members who I see regularly, Summer 2002