Bob Tregilus

Bob is a professional fine art landscape and portrait photographer living in Reno, Nevada, USA. He also works part-time as a fine art picture framer at Nevada Fine Arts.

Bob's interests vary widely–as well as wildly–and include nearly everything with the exception of:

• Sports (drag racing is cool though);
• screeching babies (they're like fingernails on a blackboard);
• television (the plug-in-drug);
• mindless commercial pop culture [fill in the blank] (it kills brain cells faster than moonshine); and,
• Brussels sprouts (they look tasty, but aren't).

Bob is a retired amateur (sometimes professional) policy wonk and troublemaker (read: community organizer) on the topics of renewable energies, electric drive transportation, civil liberties, GNU/Linux, and economic justice.

He is also the former producer and host of the Plug In America Show, producer and cohost of This Week in Energy (TWiE), and he still creates the (very) occasional show for Hacker Public Radio. Also, he has written “knowledge journalist” op-eds for various publications on all of the above topics.

Bob tries to spend most of his time in the Big Outdoors–his preferred environment–where he might be found hiking and making photographs in the Sierra Nevada backcountry or the high desert Basin and Ranges of his home state of Nevada.

Can’t find him there? Then he might be elsewhere in the Great American West, such as the Canyon Country of the four corners region or Wyoming's Grand Tetons.

If you can't find him outside, then he might be tinkering in his machine shop or gardening (creating real wealth, i.e. food) unlike the societal-leeches who infest Wall Street.

Or Bob might be playing with Schrödinger "Ding" the super-symmetric, super-positioned, quantum string theory kitty. (Well, Ding plays when he isn’t working on his Grand Unified Theory equations.)

Bob likes desert, sun, rocks, sagebrush, and sky. Like the author Edward Abbey wrote (1977): "Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently."