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X Games: Day 1
Today was an amazing, incredible, and exciting day. A day of firsts, that will launch a week of firsts. Tomorrow I get to board an aircraft carrier to take photographs for Navy week. This summer pretty much rocks. Today also in a lot of ways felt like the first day of highschool. Nobody tells you [...]
Lady of the Dead
I woke up yesterday morning to find V in the downstairs bathroom putting on makeup. I asked what she was doing and she told me about a friend who was selling some artwork at the LA Convention Center for an event and she was to go down and help her by dressing up and hanging [...]
Critical Mass, Los Angeles
Critical Mass in LA is an incredible experience. Even if you’re not a bike fanatic like me you’d still enjoy it. There’s nothing like riding in a huge parade of people having fun. Men and women everywhere riding tricked out custom bikes, horns blaring and bike bells fill the air, speakers pulled by dolly’s bumping [...]
My Fourth
My fourth of July was quite interesting. When I was a younger child my family had a split. I stopped seeing extended family members almost immediately. No contact at all. As an adult, I’ve been slowly trying to reconnect with these people I have vague childhood memories with. I was invited to a family fourth [...]
Los Angeles Anime Con 2011
For fun, my friend Lan Bui and I went to the lobby of this years Anime Con in Los Angeles Convention Center where we did some lighting experiments for the upcoming San Diego Comic Con. My goal was to light and capture people without them knowing any better. So how did the experiment fair? It [...]
Night Time in Squaw Flat
One of the most relaxing things in the world for me is to go out somewhere, in the night, and take long exposures. It doesn’t matter where, just as long as I can just be alone and focus on what I’m doing. Sometimes it’s just nice to take a pretty photo, without meaning, or context, [...]
Bus Photographer
Meet Loring M. Lawrence, the Editor-in-Chief of the “Bus Industry Magazine.” I bumped into Loring as we both stopped on this corner, at the exact same time, to take a photo of people getting onto a bus. The reason I was taking the photos is it reminded me of an exact same scene in El [...]
1.5 Weeks
I just spent three days camping in Canyonlands, Utah. I’ve taken thousands of photos while I was white water rafting, biking, and hiking everyday in this amazing place. I still don’t have the time to go through and look at them, much less edit. My camera battery died while I was out there and this [...]
Bike Week 2011
It’s bike week here in Rochester. Everyday I’ll be riding my bike while taking pictures. This is more of a summer photo ride for myself. In celebration of a complete year in school, I went from freshman to almost junior in 12 months. Now I’m gonna ride my bike and take some fun pictures. Here’s [...]
My Birthday
LAST FRIDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY! It was filled with tons of random, unplanned fun. It started with my friend Amy Rasmussen visiting me from NYC. She wasn’t coming for my birthday but just to look for a bike and to visit.