📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

The LA Invitational is one of my favorite rides of the year, and one I’ve done every year (except 2024) since they started in 2022. I am not a group ride person! Or a race person, for that matter—but these rides

📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

I’ve always found the handmade summit signs that people make pretty silly. I’ve seen dozens of these over the years on Lukens. But this one, written on a literal piece of trash that would probably require a tetanus shot after getting

It has become a tradition in the big products demos from Google and Apple to show how their “artificial intelligence” features can easily touch up photos, removing unwanted elements or visual cruft. I have many, many hills that I’ll die on related to AI, but this

📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

There was something funny about this view to me, which I couldn’t put my finger on at the time. When I got home, I realized it was that it sort of looked like you’d follow these winding mountain paths out onto

📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

Trying to break out of my usual “here’s a cool landscape from a bike ride” thing a little more. So, here’s a weird little guy.

📷 Ricoh GR Monochrome

Tunnels seem like an impossibility. They really shouldn’t be there. The mountain shouldn’t allow them. They collapse, they’re rebuilt, they’re eventually abandoned entirely, leaving an eerie place to walk or ride a bike through, always with the full

I’ve really started to fall in love with shooting black and white, I’ve been trying to shoot it more both to talk myself out of (or into?) Ricoh’s new fully monochrome point-and-shoot. I’m not sure whether doing this helps or hurts my

View down on Chaney Road

After over a year of it sitting in my camera, I’ve finally managed to get through a roll of black and white film. I love shooting in black and white so much that I found myself “saving” it, which— _well_

🔎 Mt. Lukens Road: A prolonged heat wave may cut into what was shaping up to be a wonderfully green Spring, but for now, it’s still a sight to see.

I forgot that I have one shot off the roll of film from the arboretum that I liked. I was trying to split the light between the top and bottom. Turned out a little silly, but whatever.

The last time I was up Mt Lowe, I forgot to take the detour to see how Inspiration Point fared after the fires, so I headed back there a few weeks ago (then promptly forgot to drop the photos here). The gazebo and most of the structure is gone, but

📷 Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

They’ve been doing brush clearance up on Mt. Lukens the last few weeks. This makes the fire road super unpleasant to ride on (large sticks everywhere), but it does mean there are now an assortment of sight lines that never existed before. This