Late Fourth

I had better fireworks pictures but I forgot to copy those from my back up hard drive to my current one...and they're erased now because my dad copied the files from my current hard drive to the back up one...darn.
Equipment: Olympus D580

Parade of Dreams

I had no idea what to post that represented "Dream", so I browsed through my photos (or whatever I had left after a virus took over my computer), and found pictures of the Parade of Dreams at Disneyland.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

P.S. I said I was only going to be on a hiatus and I have come back!

The Skinny Strummer Boy

My hiatus is done. I said I would be back! Well I have lots of old photos that I realized still existed. Here's Forrest Kline, the lead singer of my FAVORITE band hellogoodbye at the African Renewal benefit concert at Biola University. This concert is my favorite out of the four hellogoodbye concerts I have been to.
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

I promise, it's a hiatus.

I'll be gone for a week or two...perhaps longer. This month is going to be really bad. I can feel it.

Canyon Colors

Before



After

I was experimenting with Photoshop. You can choose the better photo (probably the original).
*Sorry, I haven't been updating a lot. I've been busy with state testing and studying for the AP tests coming up. I haven't been taking many pictures either, but I'm not letting this photoblog down!
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

The Sky's Wine Red

If you don't happen to know, the title of this picture is a paraody (if that's the right word) on a verse of the song Wine Red by The Hush Sound, who I saw in a concert last week. This is just an old photo taken on this year's Chinese New Year.
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

Rock And Roll

Petrified wood in the Petrified Forest National Park's little museum gift shop-mabob
Equipment: Olympus D-580

Perfect Setting (Sarcastic)

What a very odd place to plant these Global Warming advocates. That power plant is located close to Lake Powell in Utah.
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7
Equipment: Olympus D-580
*Entered in Photo Friday contest

Portion of Evolution

I decided to change the title. In the front, you see a 5-year old and in the back, you see a 13-year old. It's like a photo version of an Evolution chart, except this one has to do with a boy's age.
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

United We Sit

I know, the color's gross. Although most of the people visit the temple are Chinese, you can't forget that they all came to/live in America for a reason, whether it was for democracy, the nice Californian weather, etc.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

Just Add Water

I don't like Aquafina, though. And no, all bottled water do not taste the same.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7
*Sorry for not updating very often anymore. I've been busy with schoolwork.

No Parking

I don't recall seeing one of these signs before in the past ten years of living in my current residence. They were everywhere in my neighborhood.
Equipment:Olympus D-580

Emo Kid

He's really a fun-loving guy, despite his common sad appearances.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
Editing: Photoshop 7
*Submitted to Photo Friday.

Eek!

I thought this diorama was so cute! It was some English 4AP project on Hamlet (I think, some Shakespeare play for sure. Anyone recognize this scene?). If I can recall, it was made by J. Park, E. O, and ...J. Huang?
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7
*I need a new background.

Accessory

I look really creepy. I love my mask!
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7
*I always remember about Photo Friday contests at Thursday 10PM Pacific Time.

Through the Streets

Great for u-turns.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

Always Look Up

PHEW! I got to the Photo Friday website before 10PM (Pacific Time) JUST in time to post the link to this "Self-Portrait" of me.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

The Gentle Dragon

Just when I thought I didn't take any pictures of the lion dance that were worth posting on my blog because I sat so far away from the performers, I get near the "lions" AFTER the dance and wait for SOMETHING to happen. I saw how little kids were petting the lions and waited for the lion to be in a good position where I could capture its bright features and a cute kid to come up and pet it. This is the one. Happy last day of the Chinese New Year celebration!
Equipment: Olympus D-580
*For the first time in my life, I am hoping for rain. You MIGHT see why later this week.

Together In Peace

I really like this photo. I tried to look for something...I guess beautiful and pleasant looking to photograph. I just saw the lanterns and took one random picture, not even steadying the camera. I notice I say "I" a lot in my blogs. How conceited of me.
Equipment: Olympus D-580

Last Year's New Year

Happy New Year! So I don't know why Blogger is being a little evil. It doesn't allow me to add pictures using the dimensions that I put. I think it's working now, though. I took this photo last year at the Hsi Lai Temple during Chinese New Year.
Equipment: Olympus D-580

Drama in Journalism

This building contains the drama room and journalism room (boo). The day was going to become a cloudy and rainy night.
Equipment: Samsung Sync

*This is the last sky picture of the week (aren't you glad?).

Paint the Sky

Guess I'm still posting sky pictures. The sky looks like a painting.
Equipment: Olympus-D580
*This year's Valentine's Day has been a really bad one, and no, it does not have anything to do with love and Valentines and mushy gushy stuff.
**Two out of two friends chose this photo to be submitted to PhotoFriday (I submitted at 9:59PM Pacific Time)!

Lift That Spirit

I like this picture. That's all. I think I'll put up a non-Sky picture tomorrow.

Equipment: Olympus D-580

Editing: Adobe Photoshop 7

Look At the Bright Side

He wanted me to take an "emo" picture.
Equipment: Olympus D-580

Hide and Seek

It kind of looks like the painting. The camera was under the night setting. Since pictures seem to turn out blurry when taken in the dark, this photo came out looking...odd but I like it. You can see the moon peeking out. This was taken during the Mid-Autumn Festival (watching for the full moon to come out).
Equipment: Olympus D-580
*My sky pictures aren't that impressive-looking.

Laid-back

This week's PhotoFriday challenge is "Sky" and I have so many sky pictures, but I don't know which one to enter. So for the next few days, I will post Sky pictures. My birthday party had everything: friends, kites, fresh air, and the clear sky.
Equipment: Olympus D-580
*I really want to save up for a more professional digital camera.
**UPDATE: It is now April, and I just wanted to brighten this photo a bit. It looked too dark and "emo".

Everything You Need

Chinese New Year is taken seriously at Hawaii Supermarket. They have two or three aisles filled with food items for Chinese New Year.

Equipment: Samsung Sync

Right on La Monde

I was hoping to get a motion blur from that car but no. My cell phone camera's shutter speed

is pretty high.

Equipment: Samsung Sync
Touch-Ups: Paint Shop Pro 9 (I think)

*Visitors are great. Comments are great, too.

Flame On

I think this guy hates me now. Anyway, my mom gave me this lighter to light the candles on my birthday cake. For some reason, it just wouldn't light. The flame came out intermittently but the winds (we flew kites, too) just kept blowing it out. After about half an hour, the lighter worked semi-well with something to block the wind (eg. cup). The guys used it to do crazy things.
Equipment: Olympus D-580

Pause

I rode my new bike today. It's a bit tricky to steer.
Equipment: Samsung Sync
*I've realized that many of my photos aren't exactly SPECIAL or amazingly appealing to the eye. From now on, I am going to aim for beauty in photos and not just take pictures to put on this blog. It will be like an SAT techinique: aim for accuracy, not quantity of answered questions.

Please Just Smile...

My brother does not know how to smile. Whenever my family or I try to take a picture of him, he either makes a weird face or doesn't smile (maybe he wants to hide his braces). He looks really...unattractive (I'm being nice) in this picture but I kind of like how this photo turned out, the background all blurry and the focus is on him. This was taken by me in early January at Mount Baldy while going down the ski lift.
Equipment: Olympus D-580
*submitted to Photo Friday
**I really want a professional camera.

Weird Winter Weather

Yet another blurry photo. I took this while calling a friend so I had a cell phone in one hand and a camera in the other. After a FREEZING night in Hacienda Heights, I looked out my window in the morning and noticed some white substance on the papayas on the papaya tree. I am not sure if it's ice. My brother says it's milk from the papayas. No, I did not touch it.
Equipment: Olympus D-580
Touch-Ups made with Adobe Photoshop 7
*Goals for my blog:
-make some finishing touches to the blog's background and put it up
-bring some more visitors to my blog by...
-participating in online photo contests (that's how I found out about a lot of great photo blogs like Eyespeak and Sydney Webcam)

Lights On

I originally wanted to take a picture of the red sky (which was gone by the time I brought a camera outside). Sorry, the photo is extremely blurry.
Equipment: Fujifilm FinePix A500

18 Ft.?

I know, it's been a while since the last post, but here I am. Everything sucked today. Nothing went my way and in the end, I was bored. So, I took a walk around my neighborhood. Since my years in elementary to the end of middle school, I have walked pass these two palm tree trunks after school. One trunk has 1 spray painted on it. The other has 8 on it. Who did marked these poor, innocent trees?
Equipment: Samsung Sync
*I am planning to put up a background...as soon as I figure out how it should look like. Do you guys like Mondrian's paintings? :)
**My blog feels lonely without comments. :( Yah know...anyone can comment! It's true!

A New Breeze Blows

This was taken last year on my sixteenth birthday (9-23-2006). It's a picture of this Chinese shrine or whatever they call it. My parents always set it up every occasion and my family prays in front of it. There was a cool and calm breeze that made the incense's smoke blow in such a pretty way. I had to take a picture of it.
Equipment: Olympus D-580 (lame.)