The view from my window

More self portraits

Still working on getting this winter coat look down. Best shot so far.

Old and rusty

For some reason, I like old, worn, and rusty things. That didn't come out right. Hope this picture can provide some better context.

Home during the Holidays (FOOD!)

Had lots of awesome food when I went home for the holiday. I should of taken more pictures of food while I was back but this is what we had for New Years.



Couple more here.

End of Qi

That's the last of it. It's done. It's over. There's no more. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Thank God! (Oh, and btw, Eli spit it out while taking the last shot)

Hui Hui

So I went home for Christmas and New Years and had lots of fun, ate lots of good food, and practiced taking lots of pictures of my cats. Here's Hui Hui (literal translation: Gray Gray, because, well, her fur is gray). More to come when I get to it.

Smooth curves

I don't remember what these are called but it looks really dreamy.

Clownfish and Sea Anemone (Symbiosis)

Symbiosis is one of few things that I still remember from grade school and I still think it's amazing, or maybe it's because I just like Finding Nemo? Well anyways, here's a pic.

Fun with HDR

Been playing around with HDR lately and luckily, I had some bracketed some shots during my Peru trip. Here's one of them. It's interesting to me what HDR and post-processing can do. A part of me is happy that it can "improve" the original images so well, but another part of me cringes and thinks how cheap this is. Should the goal of photography be to take these beautiful photos without post-processing (or at least very little)? If so, when show your photos to people, should you show them without any post-processing at all and potentially show them something that isn't as good? Or do you post-process and eventually, you start getting better and better and your photos won't need it anymore?

HDR + post-processing:


Here's one of the original jpegs used straight out of the camera: