Photo Shoot w/Kat Vo

Old friend and original muse: Kat Vo. Quick shoot on the best couch in the world (sidetracked from doing her head shots)!

I was trying to mess around with lights but decided to just go with the ambient and blow it out a little. Oh and Kingsley posed too!

Here's what I got:


Till then!

Tiger Heat!

Yes, I know its a gay bar in Hollywood, but that's not what I'm talking about. Happy New Years everyone! It's now the year of the Tiger and a couple of days ago, I attended the parade and the shindig at the Hue Quang Temple in Santa Ana. The parade was a parade, but the Temple scene was completely different; it was loud, full of people, smokey (from the firecrackers) and very well lit!

Here's what I got (oh and don't mind the watermark. Some people are interested in publishing my photos for the temple, so until that gets sorted the watermark stays):

Till then!

Head Shot, But Without The Head. More Like The Arm, And No Bullet. Just H1N1. A SHOT OF H1N1!

Over at CSUF, the campus got a large quantity of H1N1 vaccine. They gave them out to the students for free, which kind of shocked me. Given my past relationship with this school and how they rape you for all that you have in your wallet, I was skeptical. But, sure enough, all you needed was a CSUF ID and you got a shot.

Here's what I got:


Till then!

Man About Town

So I got off of work early and decided to take advantage of all this good'ol sunshine. I headed to the beach (I love the beach in the winter/fall, not a lot of people are around) to find me a good photo. I was able to capture the sun setting behind some people fishing and watching the surfers, but I had to pay a price. This photo caused me to see purple for a good half hour! I had to look into the viewfinder while the sun was burning right into my retina. I guess it was worth it; I do have two eyes.

I was also able to shoot some guys surfing, too. What kind of beach adventure would it be if I didn't do that?


My gear for this outing:
-D300
-300mm 2.8
-1.7 TC

Essentially I was shooting at 500mm F/4.8. Long glass FTW!

Till then.

Thao Nguyen for Karl M.

A weird thing happened to me the other night. I went to go see Thao Nguyen play at The Detroit Bar and the show was suppose to start at 9pm but started at 10pm. I was so tried from the entire day (Santa Monica by 9am and The Griffith Observatory) that I, after Thao N. was done playing, decided to go home and not stay for the entire show (oh bitter milestones). I should have figured. Right before I left my house to go to the bar, I was looking around for ear plugs. Sigh. But, the show was still good, just too late in the night for little old me.

Anyways, here's what I got:









Till then!

So I Might Have A Problem.

People have vice's (vices')? Anyways no one is perfect and today, I may have discovered my one of many vice's(s').

I love soda!

The above must stand in it's own paragraph to emphasize my point I'm making. You see, my dad owns a little take-out in Bolsa and he's stocking up on drinks (Coke) for the upcoming Lunar New Years. So, off in a little corner of the house are stacks of 12 packs. They're just sitting there with no one watching them or anything. I told myself that I should not take any of the drinks because I've been caught and, lightly, scolded at. So, I listened to "self-control" and didn't touch it.

That was three days ago and they're still sitting in that corner. So, today (Feb. 3. 2010) I did something that I was not entirely proud of: I stole not 1 but 2 cokes from my dad. But not all hope is lost for my soul, you see, as I was drinking to my success (I had to wait for my mom not to be around and, like a ninja, quietly open the package and sneak 2 drinks in my pj pockets), I realized that I can save myself by placing a dollar bill on the package that I tore open. I did.

As a result of my Tom Foolery, dad saw the dollar and proceed into my room and handed me a 2 liter bottle of Coke. I know what you're thinking and yes, I HATE BOTTLED SODA! Everyone knows that.

Till then!

PHOENIX DOWN!

Ello ello!

It took sometime for me to get out of my humdrum state, but I'm back to my photo blog!

So much has happened since my last entry of Oct. 6 2009.

Quick cap:
My grandma passed away (1910-2009), I got married, went to Costa Rica, went rock climbing, got my B.A, got a new lens, turned 25, the year 2010 (twenty-ten! Not two-thousand and ten. BTW) and a tornado in LBC. I wasn't there for the tornado, but I was on my way out right before the "summer room" was flooding.

Here's what I got:

There you go. Lets hope I keep this shit up now.

Till then!