Good Moments of Jackie Shen
"Time goes from present to past."     -- Dogen-zenji, Zen Master.
"The eternal exists, because of non-eternal existence."     --Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Master.

(Hiking. August 2008) White triplet;  True watercolor beyond Monet;  Rock, water, and light;  Nature's fine art;  Nature paints. 

(Hiking. May 2008) Winding creek;  The Frog Buddha;  Painters' dream stroke;  Simply pink;  Ocean's calling;  Light in peace.

(Hiking. March 2008) Sun returns;   Winter's tight grip;   Enormous space for the spring;   River is long, Mnt quiet.

(Hiking. Christmas Day, 2007) Quest for a white Christmas; Distant New York City in the sunset.

(Hiking. Autumn 2007) Autumn's sacred mirror;  Golden path;   Hidden beauty;  Heaven's curtain.  

(May 2007) At the Commencement with my Ph.D. student Dr. Yoon-Mo Jung (Univ of Minnesota): A.  B.

(April 2007) At the Toyota Tech. Inst. (Univ of Chicago): with Steve (Smale) - a beautiful mind as gentle and comforting as the morning breeze.

(July 2006) Some photos from the Los Alamos National Lab (visiting Kevin Vixie; most photos were taken by Simon Morgan):

With Kevin and Simon at an Indian Restaurant at Santa Fe,    Bandelier National Park (BNP-A),    Ancient Indian Pueblo's Cave Home (BNP-B),    Cave Home (BNP-C),    Cave Home of 140 Feet High (BNP-D),    The Silent Guard (BNP-E),    The Sitting Warrior (BNP-F: overlap/projection effect of two separated standing rocks).

(August-September 2005) Some photos from the US-China Workshop on Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational Aspects of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition at the Lotus Hill Institute for Computer Vision and Information Science, E'Zhou, China, August 2005 (First major non-profit civic research institute in China, which for sure will be history making; please visit the above website or send email to the Director sczhu@stat.ucla.edu for more information):

group photo for the tutorial, (Todd (left 2nd) and Peter (left 4th) are the two American Ph.D. students (joined later by Joe; all were sponsored by US-NSF) I brought not only to enhance scientific exchange, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to promote cultural exchange.)     with Song-Chun Zhu (Director) and Jiashun Jin,     with Song-Chun and Jiashun at the Dragon Tower (taken by Todd),     like a garden, but it is an institute (by Todd),     show me the lotus(by Peter),     the very traditional Chinese pathway (where you can sit and enjoy the soothing sound of rain drops on the lotus leaves and the pond; by Peter),     Cloudy Dragon to the Moon (by Todd),      at the front of the Institute ,    after the dinner,    brief stop at Shanghai Jiaotong University (with Prof. Jie Yang),    during workshop breaks: fishing at the Lotus Pond (by Todd).   

(May 2005) Some photos from the Workshop on Applicable Harmonic Analysis at the Center of Mathematical Sciences (CMS) , Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (my hometown), May 2005:

with Haomin (Zhou)'s couple at the West Lake (retouched with inpainting),     with Sungha (Kang),     Haomin and Sungha,    with Tony, Carl, and Haomin at the University Dining Hall,     Fanghua (Lin) giving a talk, (re-contrasted due to very low contrast)     with Haomin, Tony, and Sungha,     Tony with   Marco Polo   at the West Lake,      The Eve over the West Lake.

(Here is how Marco described my hometown in the 1300's in his celebrated "The Travels of Marco Polo.")
"... (p. 222, Penguin Classics version ) Let me tell you further that in this city there are fully 3,000 public baths, to which men resort for their pleasure several times a month; for they believe in keeping their bodies very clean. I assure you that they are the finest baths and the best and biggest in the world - indeed they are big enough to accommodate a hundred men or a hundred women at once..."

"... (p. 216) In other streets are established the doctors and astrologers, who also teach reading and writing; and countless other crafts have their allotted places around the squares (of the Markets)..."

(April 2005) Some photos from the Workshop on Signal Over-Sampling and Coarse-Quantization (organized by Benedetto, DeVore, Daubechies, and Tadmor) at the Center of Sci. Comput. and Math. Modelling (CSCMM), U of Maryland, April 2005:

Beautiful UM campus,     The Monument and cherry flowers,     TWO minds separated by a time river,     Bronze silence,     Frozen into the moment.    

(December 2004) Some photos from the Workshop on Image Processing and Computer Vision/Graphics at the Center of Mathematical Sciences (founded by Fanghua Lin (Courant) and S.-T. Yau (Harvard)), Zhejiang University, December 20-24, 2004:

at the Dragon Gate,   at the Eye Tower of the new campus,   giving the tutorial,   giving the invited talk,    House of the Emperor's Descendants.  (all taken by the CMS staffs, December 2004)

(October 2004) Some photos from the Workshop on Mathematical Image Analysis and Processing at Banff's Int'l Research Station (Birs), Canada, October 23-28, 2004 (organized by Pugh, Esedoglu, Kang, and Shen):

the entire group photo     Lake Louise: simplicity is beauty     in the arms of Nature     with Sung-Ha and Luminita     to chair is to be tough on time     short break, smile quick     with Richard and Haomin (Lake Louise)     (October, 2004; all were taken by Sung-Ha except the first.)

(Autumn, 2004) Some autumn colors taken near where I live:

nature's fine texture     old man and the lake (not sea!)     call of the space     alone but not lonely.     (Autumn, 2004)

Some pictures from my friend Dennis's wedding... (July, 2003, Wachington D.C.)

Some older ones:

with Chuan and Qiang, Portland, Maine, 1997

unexpected waves, Portland, Maine, 1997

Los Angeles Mountains, 1999

New England's Autumn Eve, 1997

Flaming Birds and Chuan [San Diego, Spring, 1999]

With Li and Xiangwei [Universal Studio, LA, Summer, 2000]

MIT Commencement. [Cambridge, Summer, 1998]

With Radica at Commencement. [Cambridge, Summer, 1998]

With Ben at Commencement. [Cambridge, Summer, 1998]