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Humans Required Slideshow for the Bay Area Open Space Council

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I’m excited to be offering 13 slides from the Conservation:Humans Required project that I’ve been working on over the years.  This set of slides is particularly exciting to present to the Bay Area conservation professionals who will be attending a sold out seasonal gathering by the Bay Area Open Space Council at the David Brower Center in Berkeley.  The BAOSC is a fantastic organization that makes great things happen in the conservation world.  Thanks to Annie and Ryan for this opportunity.

These slides come from the heart as I want to inspire a new wave of conservation minded humans who see knowledge and commitment as an answer to habitat degradation.  Many of these photos depict places I am attached to as an ecologist, hiker, photographer, or just a philosopher.  All scenes are less than 150 miles from home.  All scenes feel like home…

Here’s a one slide of the show.  It should be fun and I hope to make some strong connections with new friends.

 

Conserving Natives – Both Plants and Knowledge

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I was recently approached by a naturopathic physician about art for her healing space.  I was immediately excited about the idea since she was also very interested in my ties to local botany and ecology.  A match made in heaven – healing, botany, conservation.  Yeah, sign me up!

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Two under Two Challenge

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It’s been a rough week.

Grandma got sick.  Really, really sick – like you don’t want me to tell.

Then Kaya,

then Mom.

And just as the light at the end of the tunnel was beaming into our weary eyes, Dad got hit.  We’ve had an intense medical ward energy looming over our days.  Chlorox, electrolye water, soiled rags.  When the rags ran out we soiled the towels, when the towels ran out – we just soiled whatever was left.

Medicine calls it Norovirus.  We called it a serious kick in the ass.

And in between the moments of little baby screams and there was a deafening silence.  The jackhammer in my head was so loud it was quiet.  Our minds drifted towards feeling healthy – sunny days on the beach and cool mountain breezes in enormous canyons.  Every pain, ache, scream, vomit became purely animal. Function over fashion devoid of intellectualism.  It was a priori life.  It was beautiful in a sick way. It is slowly returning us to understanding the power of our family unit, its resiliency and how we are blessed to have a team to create progress out of pain and love out of discomfort.

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Interface: Transistion: Emergence: 初心

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I can’t wait to meet our newest bun in the oven.  My peace around this next stage is understanding where Kaya fits in – the big sister, the inspiration, the teacher.  Kaya, our only child, is hitting amazing notes of language development, taking kinesthetic leaps, and starting to interface with the world around her as a sentient-cognitive being.  It’s an unbelievable process witnessing her mind develop, transition and emerge.  The process has been brisk.  It is also warming; it has also presented up the Buddhist ideal of the “beginner’s mind”, or shoshin. This is shoshin: 初心 – as written (by computer) in Japanese.

There are lots of ideas, books, theorems that have been born in the womb of this quality. You can read your cerebellum blue about the idea.  You can meditate the idea into a form and quality you desire, but I believe that you will fall short until you engage in the empirical experience.  There is nothing greater than acting on what you believe.  The way to discover shoshin is to be a parent.

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Published in Bay Nature

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If there’s a magazine in the Bay Area that seems to sing to my skill set and interests, it is Bay Nature.  Bay Nature is an organic journey into all things natural that shape our landscapes and inspire the people who live in them.  Everything from redwoods, to tiny rare annual plants to mushrooms to the people who help conserve the resources live in this regional magazine.  Its the whole ecosystem, the anthropocene at its finest.  (I just learned to embrace this word at the 1st ever Society for Conservation Biology Congress in Oakland at which I spoke on some of my ecological work in the Oakland Hills and beyond)

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Summer Celebration – Mirror Lake, Yosemite

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Mirror Lake, Yosemite – a favorite summer getaway.

I’m just excited for Friday and some relaxing times with good friends and family coming up in the next few weeks.  Life is rad – rally hard!

Click on the image to get a larger view of Mirror Lake and a wild summer carrot.

 

Leah and Jonah engaged

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Many of my wedding photography appointments have been initiated with “We’re getting married and, so and so recommended we talk to you.”  And I can’t imagine a better way to start things off.  There’s no pretense, only a conversation.  I don’t apply for any awards on Martha Stewart’s Weddings or the Knot so no one comes in expecting a $10K photography extravaganza that may be on the cover of some wedding association magazine.  I just talk, listen, dream, collaborate, plan, and shoot.  The results are pretty rad. (Or so the couples say!)

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Graduating Courage

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My wife makes amazing happen regularly.  And yes, it is a noun.

She helps create a positive environment for kids that allows them to reach their potential and become the next leaders to break glass ceilings and brick walls alike.  This is a quick post to celebrate the 4th ever graduating class of seniors from an East Oakland revolutionary charter school named Lighthouse.

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Adam and Maya – Oakland Livin’

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When Adam and Maya rode up to the engagement session on bikes, I knew instantly knew they were going to be awesome.  Although a bit camera shy at first, I can’t imagine a better engagement/lifestyle session.  By the end of our walk in the park, I can truly say that they are the quintessential Oaktown couple – creative, passionate, and real.  They’re getting married this weekend and I bet it will be fun!

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