Select from the links below to be sent to the photo albums for various years or categories. There are captions to some of the photos that tell a little bit about what happened on the trip or in the photo. The most recent albums are at the top, but check out the other trips from the past. Enjoy!

  • 2024 Pittsburgh Trip Photos
    Photos from several visits to The Burgh in 2024.

  • 2024 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Photos
    Photos from the AGU conference that was held in Washington, DC from December 9-13, 2024. Also, took a few photos the night before the conference as the family went to see the National Christmas Tree from a distance near the White House. Included the bronze bust at the World War I Memorial that had finally been installed.

  • 2024 Gettysburg Photos
    Photos from the Liberty Rifles programs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 2024. Starts off with the summer program for the 1st Maryland Volunteer Infantry Regiment held on July 6, 2024. The last part is for the Remembrance Day program for the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment program that included the Remembrance Day Parade and Cemetery with the end being for the Luminaries in the Cemetery on November 16, 2024.

  • 2024 Honor Flight Photos
    Photos from Honor Flights that I and the family greeted as they arrived at Dulles International Airport, Reagan National Airport and the World War II Memorial in Virginia. These flights bring World War II veterans into Washington D.C. to see the World War II Memorial.

  • Brandon and Halie Wedding Photos
    Photos from my cousin's wedding in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 19, 2024.

  • Colgan High School Music Tech Fall Flow Show Photos
    Photos from the Colgan High School Music Tech Fall Flow Show that took place on October 12, 2024.

  • Other Photos of Aurora from 2024
    Miscellaneous photos of Aurora throughout 2024. The first batch is from the Junior-Senior Prom and the second batch is from the Senior year Homecoming football game and then before the Homecoming Dance.

  • Cook-Waas Wedding Photos
    Photos from a friend's wedding that took place in Tucson, Arizona. Also had a visit to parts of the Airplane Graveyard in the area and the Pima Air and Space Museum.

  • Charli XCX and Troye Sivan 'Sweat Tour' Concert Photos
    Photos from the concert that I went to in Baltimore, Maryland on September 26, 2024. Shygirl opened for Charli and Troye that night.

  • Learning from Our Lands Training Photos
    Photos from a Department of the Interior leadership training class that took place in Denver, Colorado and Estes Park, Colorado from September 15-20, 2024. We also had a stop at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

  • Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and O'ahu Trip Photos
    Photos from a work trip with visits to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) on the Big Island of Hawai'i and two sites on O'ahu in late August 2024. Colleagues and I had a helicopter tour of several volcanic sites for Mauna Loa and Kilauea. We also had some visits to several locations for web cameras and other instruments that HVO has around Kilauea volcano. We also had a road tour for the 2014 and 2018 lava flow sites for Kilauea's eruptions. We did a driving tour to communities on the slopes of Mauna Loa.

  • Shenandoah National Park Camping with Friends Photos
    A few photos from camping trip to Shenandoah National Park with some of Aurora's friends on July 25-26, 2024.

  • Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Photos
    Photos from the Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony held in Cooperstown, New York on July 19, 2024. Aurora and I were mainly there to see former Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Jim Leyland be inducted along with Todd Helton (Colorado Rockies), Adrian Beltre (Texas Rangers), and Joe Mauer (Minnesota Twins).

  • Totally Tubular Concert Photos
    Photos from the concert featuring several groups from the 1980s in Washington, DC on July 14, 2024. Order of the artists was: Bow Wow Wow, Eddie Munoz of the Plimsouls, The Tubes, Men Without Hats, Wang Chung, Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey, and Thomas Dolby.

  • Comedy Show Photos
    A few photos from the two comedy shows we went to this year. First was Gabriel Iglasias on March 15, 2024 at Eagle Banks Arena on the George Mason University campus, and the other was to see Nikki Glaser on June 21, 2024 at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC.

  • Maine and Massachusetts Trip Photos
    Photos from the family trip to visit friends in Bangor, Maine and Massachusetts in June 2024. Got to see the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Factory in Burlington, Vermont, some of Acadia National Park, Maine, Salem, Massachusetts, and a Yankees versus Red Sox baseball game in Boston, Massachusetts

  • Total Solar Eclipse Photos
    Photos from the trip Aurora and I took to west of Cleveland, Ohio to see the total solar eclipse that traversed the United States from southwest Texas to Maine on April 8, 2024.

  • Tommy and Cara's Wedding and Florida Photos
    Photos from the wedding I was the photographer for that was my cousin Tommy and his wife, Cara. Some other photos from a beach day in Delray Beach, Florida before the wedding, from my buddy Brian Connell's and a hike we took out to Deep Hole within Myakka River State Park and Wilderness Preserve, Florida to see some alligators, and then my trip to St. Augustine, Florida and the Castillo de San Marcos Fort.

2024 Photo Albums