California Driving:
The Author

The California Driving Guide is written and maintained by Hamish Reid, a software designer, photographer, and writer based in the Jingletown district of Oakland, California (my name is pronounced "haymish" (it's Scottish), not some variant of "Hah-meesh" or similar). I'm an UnAmerican, being British by birth, Australian by education, and all over the place residentially. I've actually lived here now for at least 20 years; someday I may have the operation and become an American citizen; maybe not.

I have my own (very out-of-date) web sites and blogs here, here, and here, mostly concerned with photography, imaging, and writing. I also have a CafePress.com shop for California Driving Guide stuff (mugs, postcards, calendars, etc.); this is in addition to my CafePress.com Jingletown shop that sells slightly odd merchandise based on my Oakland neighbourhood (a place called "Jingletown", funnily enough). There's also an embryonic Imagekind.com store with a small selection of my higher-quality hi-resolution art prints for sale, which will also one day contain images from the Guide for purchase.

I welcome feedback, comments, corrections, and questions (but please check the FAQs before emailing me). As stated earlier, sometime in the (ever-receding) future I may try to publish this as a book or a book chapter, so if you don't want your suggestions to end up in such a book, please don't send 'em in (or at least tell me explicitly that they're not for publication).... Please also don't get too upset if I disagree with your comments or corrections, or if I don't incorporate them immediately into the guide — I have to exercise my own judgement on these things, and I may not always agree with you.

The best way to send in comments, corrections, feedback, or just get in touch with me is via email. (Note: I do not use your email address for anything other than replying to you, and your email address will never be forwarded to any marketing types).

Another note: although I'm the world's worst email and mail correspondent, I do at least try to respond to every non-abusive non-Spam email I receive. It may take some time to get a reply, though, as I often batch replies. Also, a surprisingly large amount of email comes in that's either a) nothing to do with anything on my site; b) unreadable (and I don't mean the English is bad — that's fine by me, especially for non-English speakers — it's the ones with no coherent structure or point that defeat me...); or c) without a valid return address. I usually just ignore these....