Alexander Stuart

Photograph  copyright © 2015 Alexander Chow-Stuart. Happy New Year 2016 to all our friends in Europe, Asia and elsewhere...and soon here in America ✨🍾💫

Photograph  copyright © 2015 Alexander Chow-Stuart. One of my all-time favorite shots of our family on the beach at Santa Cruz at high tide.  The beach in winter is fascinating to listen to and observe. The waves pound the sand with a force you can hear streets away.  They would entirely block the harbor mouth with sand if not for constant dredging by the harbor authorities throughout the winter - which redistributes sand onto the beach, where an earthmover works pretty much constantly to shore up the road side of the beach against natural erosion.  It's strange how we take our California beaches for granted, yet most of them (the ones people use, anyway) require management in some way.  I remember in Miami Beach, after Hurricane Andrew, when the lifeguard huts were swept 100-300 metres across the sand and the seaweed piled high in mounds you could climb, I realized how much work daily went into keeping the beaches manicured, evenly leveled and seaweed-

A Christmas version of Tim Roth and me by Nath Alie. As our children prepare for bed, super excited about what tonight will bring, I offer my Christmas and holiday wishes to everyone, together with this fun seasonal reworking of a photograph of Tim Roth and me, created by Nath Alie , who runs The War Zone Message Board for survivors of abuse. While I am drawn most to Buddhism (I feel it is a way of experiencing the world, rather than a particular kind of belief), I love this time of year more than any other in terms of the magic in the air, and I still feel a childlike and perhaps primal thrill around the winter green of Christmas trees and colored lights. Wishing warmth, happiness and love to all, and peace and harmony to our beautiful planet. Merry Christmas to all...and to all a good night! (Tim, of course, will be seen this Christmas in Quentin Tarantino's new blockbuster, The Hateful Eight .)

Photograph  copyright © 2015 Alexander Chow-Stuart. It's not Christmas until we've photographed our lovebird Miso in our Christmas tree! 🎄🎄🎄

Hudson, the bunnies and the Carrot Moon at STEAM Carnival, AT&T Park, San Francisco. Photograph  copyright © 2015 Alexander Chow-Stuart. Hudson's Bunny Quest Kickstarter campaign is now complete and more than fully funded at $1,395 (his goal was $1,200). Yesterday he published this update on Kickstarter. Huge thanks from all of us to all our friends and everyone else who gave such wonderful support to Hudson.  He has worked so hard and he knows a lot of work lies ahead...and we have to make sure that his computer time/schoolwork/healthy life balance is a good one! Thank you all! Alexander + Hudson