This is a short discription of the photos in this gallery. 中文请看这里

On the hiking trails:
• Glen Pass, Kings Canyon NP, Oct. 1995, with Nahum, Max & Allen
• Sequoia NF, June 2000, with Peter, Chris & ??
• Mineral King, Sequoia NP, Sep. 2000, with Peter, Susan & Marten
• Rattlesnake Point in Niagara Escarpment, Nov 2000
With friends:
• Pasadena dinner to celebrate Tatiana & Nikita's wedding, Oct. 2000,
• Andrew Cumming's visit and the drinking splurge in Ueli's place, Sep. 2000
With families:
• Marten in my Toronto studio, Dec. 2000
• the cat and her (finished) food, June 1997
• with Marten's family in Santa Monica's open market, Oct. 2000
Astronomical Mirages:
• Antarctica & TIGER
• the young star HH-34 and its neighbouring waterfall
• eccentricity distribution of exoplanets , distance conversion , almanac , news .
• the dying star Eta Carina and its ejection
• Mars photo showing the presence of surface-fluid in its past
• Marten's ionization nebula around a neutron star
• a new born white-dwarf and its cacoon
• a jet-shooting planetary nebula , another one: Rotten-Egg Nebula
• Hubble deep field
• Cat's Eye planetary nebula , A very spherical Planetary Nebula
• a dark hole , lensing arcs , color of the moon
• an Ant-like planetary Nebula
Chinese culture, high and low:
• Wang Xi-zhi's Lan2 Ting2 Xu4
• children playing, a painting from the Forbidden Palace
• junky caligraphy of a poem by Li Bai , and one by Su Shi
• bamboo in the autumn rain , Tang Dynasty dancer(DunHuang)
Other cute and copy-right-free pictures:
• a plane breaking the sonic barrier ,
• view from Everest ,
• the Everest from space , Himalayas from space , Tibetan Plateau from space
• Earth in True Color
• Hotel on the moon ,
• a cat in infrared light ,
• Natural Nuclear Reactor ,