Sameer Halai

Approaching New York City from the Staten Island Ferry #nyc #ferry (at Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal)

Late morning fog over the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands viewed across the Emeryville Marina.Just like in the emoji 🌁! #goldengatebridge #sf #california #bridge (at Golden Gate Bridge)

🕊 The Tribute in Light is an art installation of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center to create two vertical columns of light to represent the Twin Towers in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. It is produced annually by the Municipal Art Society of New York #911 #nyc #twintowers #911victims #peace #love (at Tribute in Light)

Exactly two years ago, on Christmas Day, I was driving in the dark in Finland, about 12 hrs North of Helsinki. I ran into a beautiful white reindeer just hanging out on the highway. I have no pictures of it. So today I decided to sketch it out and overlay it on top of a picture of just the highway. This is very close to how I remember it :) #reindeer #finland #lapland #highway (at Sodankylä)

Sunset over the Süleymaniye Mosque along the Golden Horn in Istanbul. The mosque was finished in 1557, with minarets 72m (236ft) high which once made it the highest mosque in the Ottoman Empire. The Golden Horn is a major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus #istanbul #goldenhorn #turkey (at Sülemaniye Camii)

Some of the most talented artists in the Bay Area showing off their LED art and projects. This is a still and doesn't capture the beautiful motion of the lights and colors, which is a key attribute of this type of art. Lumen Labs, located in Berkeley, is a community for learning and an art gallery for visual and light artists #led #art #berkeley #sfbayarea (at Lumen Labs)

Mountain bathed in moonlight #sierras #mountain #nightsky #stars (at Whitney Portal, California)

The view from Lower Boy Scout Lake (10,350ft/3,155m) on the mountaineers route up to Mt Whitney (14,505ft/4,421m). This route was first climbed by none other than John Muir himself. Seen in the far distance is the town of Lone Pine (3,727ft/1,136m) with the Inoyo Mountains towering over its East side. The paved road, very faintly visible in the center of this image, is part of the historical Whitney Portal road that was completed in 1904 #mtwhitney #sierranevada #sierra #california #mountains #mountaineering #johnmuir (at Lower Boy Scout Lake)

The Joshua Tree is native to desert in California, Arizona, Utah & Nevada. Featured on the album cover of U2, it has an other worldly charm and quite an iconic status. #joshua #tree #sunset #california #nps #nationalpark #joshuatree #u2 #outdoors (at Joshua Tree National Park)

Front porch for the weekend #nature #hottub #california #trees #twentyninepalms

Foggy spray along a cliffy Pacific coast #pacific #ocean #beach #california #trees (at Ano Nuevo State Reserve)

Car camping with fogged up windows at the trailhead, sleeping under the stars. You can see the edge of the Milky Way as most of it stays under the horizon at this time of the year. But this is why we can see a lot more stars in this picture - usually they get washed out by the brightness of the Milky Way #yosemite #stars #milkyway #backcountry #outdoors #hiking #california (at Yosemite National Park)

Watching the waves crashing while sipping a mocha at a cafe by the Pacific Ocean on a lazy, salty, windy Saturday! 🌊 #pacificocean #coffee #waves #wind #sea #ocean #pacific #california #coast #beach (at Miramar Beach, California)

Sunset over San Francisco and the Bay Bridge across the Port of Oakland #sunset #oakland #sf #bayarea #california (at Port of Oakland)

Before sunrise 🌅 The lights around the lake are still on as the Sun lingers just below the horizon, lighting up the sky with pinks and oranges, reflected on the still waters of Lake Merritt. #HDR #lakemerritt #oakland #california #fallsummer (at Lake Merritt)

Got very close to the Blue Angels today #fleetweek #blueangels #sanfrancisco #usnavy

There's a lot going on in this picture. The foreground (bottom of pic) is the summit of Mt Dana (13,061ft/3,981m), a high alpine environment with no vegetation, in California. Then as you go down the slopes, you see the shrubs and the tree-line. The "bottom" is at 6,300ft (1,920m), where you see the giant body of water called Mono Lake. It spans 70sq miles and is almost a million years old. Like the Dead Sea, it has no outlet and the water is very alkaline. Beyond it, in the background (top of pic) you see the continuation of the mountains that stretch into Nevada #sierra #california #monolake #mtdana #yosemite #nps (at Mono Lake, Sierra Nevada, California)