The first couple hundred photos I took on my old camera have I burnt in date watermark on them, a setting that took me some time to learn where the off toggle was. I would normally consider it absolutely hideous and undesired but in this specific instance it just becomes nostalgic for me.

This was taken on a road trip that led us up through northern California. Half of the pictures I have are my brothers hiding inside of or standing on top of giant redwood trees.It doesn't take very much for my love of scale to make itself known. I'd be all over even one large tree but here there were many more than that. If only there was a large vertical greenhouse capable of keeping one of these alive in my backyard.

This is the beginning of a little experiment I'm trying out. Not to be a collection of Nathan's greatest hits, but instead a sprinkling of what I find meaningful or plain beautiful. This, in one form or another, is something that I have wanted to try out for a long time. Preferably outside the reach of flashy apps vying for attention where it can be something for myself, potentially a few others, and not necessarily more.

I've artificially limited myself to a maximum of one photograph per day, to not just dump reams of photos in a public drive somewhere without signifance. I don't plan to have any real chronological order although I expect it to be more or less possible to catch up on what I'm doing with more current posts. At times, I expect not more than a sentence or two to be written but I am alright with that. After all, sometimes you just look at something and go "Yup, makes sense to me. Don't english class this."

This first image was taken with my old point and shoot from a moving car after getting up at 4:00 in the morning to go upcountry and watch the sunrise. I don't know if the remarkably clear sky is usual or was a result of sheer luck, but I love the dual sets of clouds that secure their respective mountains and demonstrate the sheer scale of Haleakala.

Hello World. -Nathan