Hello to whoever even looks at this blog! Sorry I have not updated in a longgg time. But today, you are in for a treat! I have quite a few to upload here straight from my new camera :) Enjoy!

The first place we visited was the Getty Center on gloomy, overcast day. I had a lot of trouble working with the manual settings on my dslr, so I decided to just switch to automatic. If only the sun came out and the clouds parted, it would have been a great time to experiment with the settings but this shall suffice. Cathy, Christine, Mandy, and I spent 3 hours of silliness and fun amongst flowers and amazing artwork.











As I was being frustrated with the manual setting on my camera, I attempted to look like I knew what I was doing as I fumbled with the settings when I really was confused. So I looked around to see if I could ask anybody else with a slr to help me out. I saw a guy with a nice camera but he was walking too fast, so that failed. Then I saw an old man with a slr but he was so engrossed with a certain flower for a longggg time I decided asking him also. Then I saw another guy with a slr who seemed like he knew what he was doing so I sort of saw which spots he took pictures at and such and then kind of "followed" him but not really. That was when I realized he was taking engagement pictures for a couple! That sent me into a "oh man I can't approach this guy, he's gonna think I'm dumb" mindset. I quickly took this shot from further away while he took a shot much closer up. I felt like a creeper without intentionally trying :( but I like this picture :) They're cute!



Nice view of the family and the city :)


I like genuine laughter :)

so I was checking my email today and I received an email update regarding a new post in this blog so I checked it out as usual.

"Horizontally framed images are associated with serenity and peacefulness. Vertical images are usually associated with forcefulness or power. Experiment with both formats when deciding on a composition."

I didn't know that before so that's kinda cool. :)

today is an epic day :D

i smell another photo adventure coming up in the near future. it's been too long. location to be determined. who wants to come along? :D

Nikon D40X with 18-55mm lens. Most pictures are sooc (straight out of the camera) or at most..just minor contrast/color changes except pic of Jenn in PAB (horrible lighting in there). It was a really nice day out, nice and sunny with LOTS AND LOTS of wind. I started off the day on the roof of my apartment then went to PAB then Powell Library (yes Powell..haha. it was hard to be quiet and not creepy with the camera. haha) and finished off at my apartment kitchen.

Taken by Christine. Cathy, you make me laugh. haha :)









I dunno why it focused on the desk in front of me, but the blur of Steven Xiao and Jenn Chien looks kinda cool. :)

For some reason lighting in our apartment tends to make taking pictures rather difficult. No flash means blurry sometimes and with flash the colors are all wrong. Perhaps we need more lighting? Different lighting? or maybe it's just not going to be conducive to taking pictures. haha. But anyway, here are a few pictures from our AACF Junior Class Hangout. Finally we had one this year! Despite the miscommunications regarding time, it was a good time of worship, prayer/devotions/sharing, and playing Cranium.


Blurry semi group picture :(

Yummy fruit platter Amy made :)

Thanks for leading worship Brian!


Thanks for leading devos Joe!

Group sharing/prayer time


Cranium! Boy were we loud. Sorry Tina!


Jarrod and his babies. haha

Sorry for not posting much lately (if anybody even checks). I think I'll be editing and uploading pictures either tmw or Saturday.

On the list...
-Class hangout
-Joe's Bday
-Randomness in the apt
-pictures from my phone

In the near future...
-Cathy's food creations

a.k.a Long Beach Aquarium! whoohoo! So over spring break, I was just randomly looking up places online and I thought about the Long Beach Aquarium. I've gone there about 10 years ago with my family and I didn't really remember much about it. I remembered it was a huge place, there was a big whale hanging from the ceiling, and lots and lots of fish swimming in the tanks. As I was navigating on the website, I got pretty excited to see the fish, sharks, sea otters, and other sea creatures. I talked to a few of my friends and we arranged for a trip there on Friday of that week. I was quite excited. Here are some of the pictures that documented that day :) [I was quite sad I didn't have a DSLR to take pictures with because that would have made picture taking easier since it had a quicker shutter speed. Nonetheless, I got a few decent pictures.]


Doesn't this jellyfish just look majestic? I like the color gradient of the blues that contrasts the colors of the jellyfish :) pretty.

I don't know what to say about these little fellas. They're quite creepy looking and swam right up against the display window. -backs away-

Kimmie and Lawrence at the Shark Lagoon area petting the sharks.

looking into the sea otter tank


Hooray for stuffed animals. There was a little booth to build your own stuffed sea creature. it was kinda interesting.

Part of the

Cute baby trying to touch the manta rays

Manta Ray coming out of the water to say hi :)

Super loud and scary parrots that fly into you and shoot poo everywhere in the confined cage area. traumatizing but they look cool :)

The beautiful lorikeet i couldn't take my eyes off of AND it says "Hello there!" to you as well.

As Cathy said, Nemo and black version of Nemo

Interesting design yah?

I liked the zebra striped fish in the back. Pretty cool lookin'!

There was a crowd of people standing around the tank so I went to see what was going on. As I walked up, I saw a HUGE crab just sitting there with a claw missing. That was kinda cool but I still wasn't sure what was so amusing about it. Then I looked further into the tank and saw that another crab had enclosed it's claws on a starfish, gripping it and seeming like it was going to eat it. BUT it failed. I don't think I would have wanted to see the crab eat the starfish. But...cool lighting in this tank :)

As I stood at this tank attempting to take a picture of the colorful fish, this little girl walked up next to me and tried to do the same. Her parents stood behind watching her/the fish and I heard the little girl's mom say to the dad, "Honey, we're gonna have great pictures for today." Hehe. Give a kid a camera for a day and see waht pictures they take!

Another interesting looking fish.

THE COOLEST TANK THERE. It had a bunch of Nemos and Dorys :D

Shrimp!

All done looking at the fishies! :)