I am Free

Run 4, originally uploaded by snaperture.

I feel refresh when there is a quality photography time with my friends. Every year we choose a national park to photograph. This year is Death Valley. This is one of the picture I downloaded my friend's website.

We were playing around panning moving blur. Kenneth and I were the model that time. Fun Fun Fun. (kind of funny two 30+ adults running like a kid)

Painful Migration

Finally I can start blogging in blogger. It took me more than 3 hours to move everything from friendster blog, but it is all worth it.

Lost Connection!

I saw her last night, and we ate at the same restaurant that I took her out the first time. We rented “Pursuit of Happyness” and made it a quite night of our own. She brought her cat with her and Coco was not happy at all. It was a usual night but what I felt inside was totally different. The connection has been lost and our body language has been changed. I tried to hide the eyes contact because it would be meaningless. It was a silence night and I rather keep it that way.

She recognized the same thing.

Was it the last goodbye?

Idea for the Next Photo Shoot

Here is the idea/script for my Saturday photo shoot. Joanne will help me as a model/actress to express my ideas out. It will be in Walnut Grove early morning 7:30am. I hope you can wake up in time, so I can complete this little project of mine. Check back here if you want to know what happen and how the picture come out.
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I woke up in a strange little town of unknown by the chilly fresh air from the river. I can’t remember a thing from how I got here only I remember love from the past life. Why am I here? What is the purpose? I will follow my heart and explore this strange place.
I got scare because there are no people around, Why? I want to ask for direction, but the city is empty.
Finally I found a person and she is what I am searching for.
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Work from Home

Today is my turn in the home office rotation. You know when guest is coming you need to clean up your home. So I did that Sunday, mostly my yard. I got some plants from Costco and planted yesterday. It was hard work but I managed to finish in three hours. Not bad at all!
I turned my live room/studio in a probable work office and we got a productive day. The homies are coming again tomorrow so it will be another day of fun in work. Even Coco loves when I work from home!

Mt. Diablo Hike (Eagle Peak)

Spring is perfect time for hiking in Mt. Diablo, a scenic 7 miles four hours easy hike in Mt. Diablo was what I need to relax my stress for work and connect with the nature. I organize the trip for the Sacramento Activity Group couple weeks ago and I got some good response from members. Together we had 8 people to hike Mt. Diablo Eagle Peak Trail.
We met in Present Hill Bart Station by 9:30am and arrived in the trail head around 10:15am.
The air was crisp it still felt like a sunny late winter days but I was perfect for this hike. I still remember last about the same time I hiked the same trail and it was hot and sweaty.
My friend Mary was a first time hiker so she didn’t prepare for anything, but this is a beginner hike so she has nothing to worry about. Along the way all the vegetation was green, in three month the mountain will change its color to brown from the hot summer months. We saw a couple snakes along the hike, and one is a baby rattlesnake. It was scary because my friend almost stepped on it, it would be bad if he did. Lucky we have Phil, who is a very experienced hiking with good eyes.
Over all, everyone wants more. I am going to plan some longer trials in the near future. I think my next hike will be in Muir’s Wood. I miss those big red woods!

Death Valley Trip Part 2

More Photos

The Sunday morning is our last day in Death Valley. Everyone was excited about Zabriskie Point, it is an elevated overlook of a colorful landscape of mud hills at the edge of the Funeral Mountains. The scenery is best at sunrise therefore we pick the spot for our last sunrise shots for this trip. We almost missed the sunrise so I was driving really fast to beat the sun. We got there around 6:15am and I quickly ran over the edge of the view point and started my setup. After a good 30 minutes shooting, Patrick suggested we shoot do a group pictures. So I told him to setup the camera, he was slow and we waited 10 minutes for him.

Finally, we headed back to the Inn and get ready to visit Mosaic Canyon. It was close by to where we stayed about 15 minutes away. We got there and started to hike the Canyon with our heavy equipment. Only the first quarter mile offers good photography so I don’t bother to go any further. On the way back I met a couple photographers, they were using large format. It was interesting, one guy wearing a reflective cape and I was wondering is he shooting aliens?

Mosaic Canyon was our last leg in Death Valley and everyone can’t wait to get back to Vegas to have a nice meal and do some shopping. Especially me, I am very picky about food. We got back to Vegas around 2:15pm. We stopped in the new LV Premium outlets, and I brought some t-shirt in FCUK. Surprisingly, it was more tired in a 1 hour shopping than a 1.5 hrs Sand Dune hike. I told Cherry shopping is not for guy hiking is!

We still had about 3 hrs before we need to check-in in the airport, so Patrick suggested visiting Wynn Casino. The only impress me in Wynn is the waitress, other than that it just a casino for rich people.
We got to the airport around 6:30pm.