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

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".

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.)