About 15 of us or so got together last night for a night time DMU photowalk at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. We haven’t done one of these in the Bay Area for a while, so it was good to get together again with some old friends and do some shooting. I’ll be posting the photos [...]
One of the popular spots in San Jose is this complex called Santana Row. It’s an upscale shopping mall and apartment complex located near Campbell. The architecture is beautiful, the restaurants are great, and the rent there is expensive. As it’s a great place to live in for young people, several San Jose Sharks and San Francisco [...]
While I am still waiting for my Big Stopper 10-stop ND filter to arrive after I ordered it from 2filter*, I was browsing the internet and came across a great review of the filter at Robert Strachan’s blog. He’s lucky to live in the UK, where Lee, the company that makes Lee filters, is based. I imagine [...]
After about a year of using their service, I’m glad to report that I am done using GoDaddy Hosting as the server space provider for my blog. Here is why. I’ve been a GoDaddy customer for close to 10 years now ever since I bought my first domain name through them. I can’t complain about [...]
I’ve recently switched hosting for my blog. There are still some glitches I am working through, such as some pages not displaying images correctly. Please be patient. This move have not been easy, but when it’s done, my web-site will work significantly faster than it did before under my former host.
First of all, thank you very much to all who participated in my fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I put it together last minute, and we were able to raise $600 in less then one week, thanks to nine generous donors. I very much appreciate your response and supporting this great cause. So does Jackson [...]
Want to participate in a good cause and also win Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended? Here is how. Last fall, I participated in a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and with the help of many of you I was able to raise over $2,000 for a stair climb we did. Cystic Fibrosys is a rare but [...]
When it comes to making canvas prints out of your photos, there are a lot of choices today of who to go through. It seems that most of the larger photos labs offer that option today. However, from my experience, when it comes to creating quality canvas wraps, it’s best to go with the labs [...]
While the summer is almost here in Northern California, the spring has been a beautiful one this year. There were good number of spring storms that passed through, and a few of them were clearing right around the sunset. I took this shot few weeks ago in a park nearby my house. We’ve lived here [...]