the thing about new years eve count down.

Okay I just wanna make it clear first: I did not type this because I’m hateful or jealous of others cause I can’t go to any count down. I just don’t go to count downs, I don’t even turn on my tv watching it. I think it’s quite meaningless and a waste of money and energy.

Here’s a more detailed explanation:

First of all, about the point of people thinking that its a new year coming, and things will restart. All the crap will go away and stuff. Thats bull shit. There is no difference between Dec31 2009 and Jan1 2010, it’s simple just another day in your life. If you are a god d*** son of a b****, there is no way that the new year itself will make you less of a a** hole, or you can call it “a better person”. If you suck in life, there is nothing that the new year will bring to fix it. Life is just all simply coincidence, or you can call it “fate” for the religious people? Unless you really want to change deep in your heart and you do something about it, your life will be the same and never change no matter how much “new years” you been through. You don’t need any special occasion as an excuse to decide to change your bad habits. You could start in any second, even now.

And somehow people tend to "act" or say they are grateful of that they overcame this past year during this period. Oh really? Seriously, if you wanna be grateful you should thank God every night when you go to sleep that he didn’t take your pitiful life and send you to hell, nor did he f***ing blow up the earth so you can see tomorrow’s sunrise. Or should I say every second? Thats kinnda extreme, but you get my point.

This is what I think people should do, don’t go to those crazy “count downs” in the big cities. Squeezing with people against people, all those fireworks and fancy parties are just a waste of money. You do know that while you’re partying, there are still millions of people around the world suffering/starving/dying. Treat this day more like another ordinary day in life but with a thought of acknowledging it’s a new year, make the celebration more low profile. Spend your time with your love. Donate some money/provide help to the people who needs it. Try make this world a better place, spread the love, but not by endless partying.

Yes, it’s Dec31, 2009 today. To me, tomorrow is just going to be another day in my life. Oh, plus I got 8 hours of sweet double paid work.

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Packing up birthday cakes

Week one back in cali: work sleep work sleep.

So far I logged in 23.8 hours of work for this week.
That translate into 202.3 dollars of income before tax withholding and Social Security.

Tomorrow is the first day of the new week, Sunday, and I gotta work from 3:30 to 8:30.
This up coming week I'm scheduled to work 34 hours. Four 5-hour days and two 7-hour days.
I get Monday off,(I need to pick up my camera resume the picture snapping business).


I'm still not sure will I get to take a week off to go to Salt Lake City.(Very unlikely, I'm sorry Collette, Matt)
But I heard I get paid double on Christmas. (Dang, we still gotta work?!)


To be honest, I'm really enjoying this winter weather here in Cali.
I know that everyone hates the cold here on the mainland, but I loved the fact I can dress up and feel warm and not sweat. Walking outside, the chill breeze on my face, the refreshing cold air. You never get that in Hawaii.(How ironic!)


Somehow I'm having a crazy sleep schedule now: Head to bed at 4:30am. Wake up at 12:00pm
Mostly it's cause by my evening work schedule. And I just hang on to the computer for too long.


I paid $439 bucks for a speeding ticket in Spetember that I had to go to court in Firebaugh, two hours south from home.
The judge was nice, he lowered the charges from Speeding 100+mph to speeding 70+mph. Still I had to pay $350 for that ticket, $25 for correcting the missed insurance card when I got pulled over, and $64 for the Traffic School Administration fee.
California traffic tickets is totally rape comparing with other states traffic law. Ugh. Blame it on the liberals. HA


Btw I'm debating should I fix my hair a bit after all this craziness?
Especially the bangs, which are getting a bit annoying, you think?

So this is it

A Hawaii grande finale.


With all the people that I love,

All the people that loved me here.



One of the greatest times in my life.


thank
you

April
Alex
Brooke
Becca
Chelsea
Emily
Gabby
Julie
Jansen
Jesus
James
Ryan
Stacy
Tanner






(don't worry if you're left out, cause this was the people who attended the party.)

History replay

So after a year, I end up doing the same thing again.
Leaving hawaii, again.

Some will say:"what the heck?"

Oh yeah, thats what I thought.

But who knew what will happen?


Suck it up is more like the solution.


I leave on the 6th of december.


"Will I be coming back to hawaii?"
the Answer is : yes.

April, 2010 I think so, when everyone is graduating.
Yes.
(I'm going to miss out the graduation on the 18th of December.)

oh and by then I will be using my mileage for a free ticket.


enough for the hawaii part.



Hmm, lets talk about some christmas plans.
So my parents were planning going on a road trip to the grand canyon for christmas week.
here's the plan:

12/25 - stay in Las Vegas

12/26 - stay Grand Canyon

12/27-29 - stay in Las Vegas

12/30 - Home

As you see, we're spending most of the time of the 6 days driving.
Consider I'm not even 21 yet, so Las Vegas is basically crap for me.

My alternative plan is not to go with them, but to take my mom's scion Xd and drive to Salt Lake city to visit some friends for Christmas.

I love my family, but now at this stage, I just can't stand my parents, especially my dad.

Hopefully once I get back to cali, I get to start working immediately. So I will have some money to payback all the people that I owe and to fund this long driving trip to Utah.(Gas cost $80 for one way.)



Heck, anyways. I love my life.

But I'm going to miss all of you in hawaii, and the beautiful hawaii itself too.

The Deal

Sorry for the lack of update these days.
I just kinnda felt like I should sit down and think about the things that are happening and gather my thoughts.

-Life hasn’t been too eventful like all you expected.
(you might say that living in Hawaii itself is a eventful enough…)

Just a bunch of decisions to make for the up coming future.

-First thing to do is to get my money to buy my ticket back home to Cali.
Thank god there are those $164 tickets going around the place.



-I went to McDonalds to check my job application process, they told me it’s still in the works, check back on Tuesday.(They better give me an answer upon that time*&^%$#@$^%&^*)

Oh and I’m going to apply for a tour guide at Kualoa Ranch on Monday, which is tomorrow. Just the fact that the bus ride to work every morning will give me the most headaches if I ever get hired.

If I happen to get a job, then I’ll have the ability to stay here in Hawaii.

-With my status right now, which I’m not in school. I am able to really sit down and see what’s happening around the place and with people these days, without the stress/pressure from school work and stuff.

It’s quite interesting to be honest.

Life is a weird concept, just funny t osee how things workout during times.

I think God has a lot of humor, although a lot of times the concept of the jokes themselves are too big for us human beings to understand.

Eh. What can we do?

So rather than worrying too much about what will happen in the future, we should try to sit down and try to enjoy what we have upon our hands, the moment, and learn to love.


Hey! Thanksgiving is approaching!



Btw happy 21th birthday Katie!

dreams.

(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

History has been made.

Their 27th.




and yet, I felt peace in my mind.

I witnessed the making of history.


Dreams Do Come True.

it's a mess, and we should clean it up, since we were the messy one who messed up.

So I've been reading a lot of the war on terror in Afghanistan.

I've always been into this military stuff you guys all know.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like war, but it’s something we have to face being Human.


This has nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq. (I was against it in fact.)


The funny thing, or should I say awkward, is that now we United States are in a position that we can't really do much rather than stay in the war.


People all talk about we should withdraw right now no matter what, thats just simply non sense. If we do that, we’re making a mistake all over again.
(I donno what to say to those people, either they are retarded or just very poorly informed about the situation)

This war is nothing can be done in months or a few years, it requires a consistent effort from the NATO and US government for at least a decade long if we want to succeed.

We need to help stable the region, provide support to the local government develop the ability to work effectively away from a failed state. Focus on education and other basic needs of the people, win the heart.


This war is a left over mess our government underscored after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 80’s(CIA has the big responsibility), and it eventually went on a snowball roll and resulted in the 911 incident plus other terrorist attacks we’ve seen this pass decade from the Islamic religion.


It’s not the war itself that decides victory, it’s how you handle the aftermath that really tells you if you succeed or not.


Funny thing to hear how the Taliban think about us:

you guys should read this series article from the about a NewYorkTimes reporter being held hostage by the Taliban for 7months
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html

Q&A session in hawaii

I came to hawaii, I was looking for an answer.


I do love my life now. I always have been.




Sometimes I think I made myself too busy, too distracted by wanting to make the most of every chance. I often forget to sit down, , to read a book, to enjoy the small moments that is surrounding all of us.

But yet at the same time that I tried to make the most of every second of my day, I often felt bored, unfulfilled, like I wasted all my talent and the time that god gave me to be on earth everyday.


Don't get me wrong, I do love my life.



I feel like creating. but I somehow, after time I just can't come up with any good ideas, inspiration. Or it's just I aways come up with unrealistic ideas that is not achievable at the moment cause of the lack of resource or the ability, so they all end up in the dump. (Maybe I should start writing them down on a notebook?)




I'm not that naive to think that coming back to hawaii was the answer.
But I do think coming back to hawaii does help me in solving this question.

And I love my friends.

apparently I'm not a pig

so I caught a flu this week.


quite nasty.

but nothing close being a SWINE FLU.



still.

first three days of terrible fevers+ two days of terrible coughing.

anyways







missed the whole week of good surfs to take photos.

hope the good surf will keep on coming.







the discussion about how long I'm staying here in hawaii popped up again.
I donno, december or april?

despite my decision or not, I still have to go back and attend a traffic court (thats the reason why you should never speed) stupid california highway patrol.

surfing

I have been going to the North Shore beaches with Blake in the morning these days to get some shots.




Hmm. Got some pretty sick shots, but the real good surf have yet to come….

the hot sweaty hawaii

it has been 4 days since I arrived in hawaii.

it's weird, felt like I never left for that 9 months.

It's still the heaven I remembered.

Never really changed.



although this sore throat I'm having is kinnda annoying, but the weather should help to cure it.

last plans for cali

it's D day minus five.
so:

I get a day off today.
Start packing.
Full day work all week end, plus monday and tuesday evenings.
(that means some money from work)
Pack my bike.
Quit my job.
Pack the moon cakes.
Get to the airport on time.
Say/wave goodbye.

6 hours above the pacific.

safe landing in HNL

then back home. home sweet home.

deal tree in the living springs

coming soon

photos taken on Slide film in Yellowstone National Park are soon to be up in this week.

just gotta do the final selection and edit.


I promise you they are extraordinary

it's nothing that from digital can compare on film!

just not right

Whats wrong with all those Canon Rebel users always having their built-in flash on when they are shooting in bright day light or in big red hot sun?

Did you guys even read the manual? Or should I suppose “auto” mode is the preferred setting to use an DSLR?

Then why waste all the extra money getting a big chunk of glass shooting it like a DC, instead you could have saved hundreds of dollars on a regular DC.

Or just you want to feel like a “PRO” with a PRO like camera?

so its all about selling moon cakes.

Just got on this job for not long.

I started this job with the preparation of quitting it 3 weeks later.

To support my voyage to hawaii.

And yet everyday on work I think about how bad I will feel for me too quit this job I just gotten used to and starting to master.

And yet every second on work I think when can I leave this place and head back to hawaii.

This could have been a good chance for me to really establish something here in Cali.
But too late for regretting, I've already withdraw my classes in De Anza college, paid my deposit and rent in hawaii, and about to order my ticket to hawaii.




I think of hawaii as the place that would fix the problems in my life.
But will it really be like that?
I can't say it will ultimately solve it, but at least temporally.
Sounds like I'm running from my problems huh?
I do admit.




Hawaii was a heaven to me.
the best Friends that I loved, and they loved me back(I suppose..). the sunshine, the beach(although I don't go there that much), the nice people, the art nights, the hugs, the McDonalds on Sunday, the bike riding in the rain(kinnda scary), the hanging out, the late night chats on the bench, the run to Chevron for snacks at 3am. Just everything.

You can't deny it's not heaven.



I do know that I can't stay in hawaii for too long. I have a life to get on track. People will eventually leave.(some might) My photography education in Chicago. My dreams(do I even have one?) And all the responsibilities that I have to fulfill. All the places I have to go.(Plus all the money I have to earn) All the friends that I'll have to visit across the US. Europe. The bronx, Yankees Stadium.




So as I'm daydreaming. A customer comes by, my mind sucks back to real life. I'm standing at the bakery in the chinese market selling moon cakes at this month of September, and hawaii is 2 weeks and 3 days away.

honesty

Ting Shen:
question
how can you be honest when you know your honesty is going to hurt someone that you know
and you don't want to hurt them,

Erika Dick:
hmmm

Ting Shen:
and the situation looks like thats the only thing you can do

Erika Dick:
well i think tact would be key
haha
you have to be honest with them
but try to go at it gently
and in a way that will cause the least pain

Ting Shen:
12: 06
timing huh

Erika Dick:
acknowledge to them that you are going to try to be honest but that your intentions are not to hurt

Ting Shen:
good point
taken
thanks

Erika Dick:
most people will at least try to take that to heart
ya know?
maybe not right away
but after they cool down
and give the situation thought
they would probably appreciate it more ya know?

Ting Shen
haha
love how you use the "ya know"

Erika Dick
hah sometimes i think i say it too much

the only thing I can do

So I just withdrew a blog entry


For the sake of a friendship.

I had to.




I do not want to sacrifice a precious friendship just cause of expressing my own feelings.



thats has always been my style of doing things.

Comments about the Kayne West and taylor Swift incident

First of all, this is nothing about choosing Taylor Swift or Kayne West.

It’s true that Kayne did a wrong thing that night. He should be criticized for ruining Taylor’s big moment in her life.

But at the same time, I feel sorry for West too, for the mistake he has done at that moment. I know how bad it feels at after he realizes what damage he has done to Taylor.

If a person have any sympathy, you should know he is no different than us as humans, we are not perfect, we all make mistakes.

What would you do if you were Kayne in that situation? What will you feel if everyone is bashing on you, and you broke Taylor’s heart. (Sure you can say you will never let yourself get in that kind of situation. You must be a real god like since you “never” make mistakes)

West sure was the dumbest guy on the earth at the moment, but he was brave enough to step up and say sorry on Jay Leno’s show. He better learn his lesson this time, and not be a idiot in the future.

I will not comment if that was for damage control or anything else, I would assume it a legit apology.

Sure Taylor was the victim that night, if I were her I would just start crying on the stage. But we shall not use this opportunity to find a reason to attack of what West have not done.

We as audiences should give him another chance of proving himself, rather than bringing gas to the fire, doing more and more criticizing…(If he later shows a pattern still doing the same mistakes and saying sorry after. then thats another story)

And for those who continually to criticize West is a racist or anything else, you better step back, and look at what you are doing, it is no better than what he did that night, or even worse.

As long as Taylor forgives him later, this should be an private issue between West and Swift. Even if she doesn’t, still.

We should learn how to love and forgive. Not hate. Hate never solves problems, it creates more issue.

Funny if you check most the comments on NBC’s video are full of hate and crap.

http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/video/clips/kanye-west/1157073/

And you will know what the general American population are thinking.

(I won’t go further into it, justify it yourself.)

Plus there are far more important issues happening out there for us to care about than this. We Are the ones that need to grow up.

Text conversation between me and collette today.

me: Collette! Are you kidding me?! You're not going back?

Collette: No. Staying here(Utah) to go to the U. :(

me: this is bull crap sis! Whats wrong with you?! How could you leave us behind?

Collette: It's a better schoo choice and I need to be here still sad enough

me:When did all this happen?

Collette: Like two days ago.

me: The U told you were accepted?

Collette:Haven't applied yet but I talked to a counselor it will be fine.

me: I can't believe you…

Collette:Ting I'm really sorry.

me: You just made my attempt to go back to hawaii less meaningful…

me: Visit us during thanksgiving? Unlikely huh?

me: How could you?! Why Collette why!? Why why why?!

Collette: Ting you are going to make me cry.

me: you already made me cry by telling me the bad news. So it's my job to make you cry now. Fair enough?

me:When you made the decision did you even considerate that I was trying everything I got to go back to be with you guys? Why why why…….. Or maybe we just didn't meant that much to you after all…?


Collette: Ting I can't base my decisions entirely on the people I love.

me: I know I know. I'm just giving you a hard time. But still you see how I cherish the opportunity to be with the ones I love, like you Collette. Can't blame you in this situation. It's just how we were born and raised differently in different backgrounds. So we tend to look at the world with different values. But I promise you, memories are always worth the money.



Gonna miss you lots Collette, love you.

Seems like we'll just have to wait till I get to Utah so we can meet again. Godspeed.

Post effects of 500 days of summer

yup.

the effects from that movie are still lingering in my head.



For example. Dreams. It always contains something about me with Zooey, and erika d getting married or having a relationship with Joseph.(Or sometime it's alyssa h, it either the one of them two)

And still in my mind, it never changed, I still believe in the "she's the one" theory.

I just can't tell myself that she is not.

I mean, I just tend to get into a girl so much that probably my friends will call me crazy too.

Anyways, I wish that I had a Zooey. (And certainly a Joseph for the girls)

Progress update on returning to hawaii

"Breaking News! I'm going back to hawaii!"
duh. what a stupid line.


Anyways, yes, I'm going back to hawaii for sure.

I found my place to stay.
And I got the money for the housing contract deposit, and sent it already on thursday.
Now I just have to get my plane ticket asap.



I suppose I will arrive at the place around late september, or even early october.
We'll see how it goes once I get the money so I can order my ticket.

It will be crazy packing all the stuff, LOL, especially the bike.(thats gonna cost me like 100 extra to bring it with me on the plane to hawaii.)


And yes, I have to find a job as soon as I get to hawaii.
Now I only have the budget to sustain living in hawaii for a month.




Now I'm in Mojave desert enjoying my last road trip visiting Roxanne Miller.


BTW Baseball post season is coming soon!

A trip down south to the Mojave desert

took me 5 hours and 38minutes to arrive at Ridgecrest.

it was quite a good drive alone the way down south.


to meet the infamous Roxanne Miller.



this place really is in the middle of nowhere.



LOL



Tomorrow is scheduled for Six Flags.

in progress 3/4

So I finished the scanning of the slide film from Yellowstone, now what is left is the long and painful retouching….

for the good of myself

my NYY cap made the scene.




so now

I'm stuck with looking for a place to stay in hawaii.

stupid little town.

Is it that hard to find a place to stay in Laie?



anyways.




I found out that I tend to be more efficient in doing things when I got friends around in my life.

'Motivation"

I just tend to have more reason to do things when I have people around.


I realized didn't really finish much things here alone in the bay area for the past 8 months.
Except for the part I did not bad at school. Maybe that's the most worthy thing I've done in a while.
kinnda sad huh.



I think it's better for me to go back to hawaii this fall.

Productive.

the whole film scanning and retouching business is back online.

Edward Hopper

"Chop Suey"(1929)




"Road in Maine"(1914)




"Automat"(1927)




"Lighthouse Hill"(1927)




"New York Restaurant" (1922).




"Nighthawks" (1942)



It all began as the mid term paper for my photo class in spring.
We had to go to down town San Francisco to visit the gallery.

But somehow it turned out to be one of my favorite paintings I've seen.

Edward Hopper’s work focused on the plain truthfulness, the silence part of the America life, and his unique perspective in his work later influenced various photographers’ style impacted American photography.

When looking at Edward Hopper’s works, it tells a story of the common American life style that we used to experience. Like gas stations, motels, restaurants, theaters, and street scenes. Showing a feel of emotional themes like solitude, loneliness, regret, boredom, and resignation in the paintings and photographs. A special feel we don’t really see in the major leading styles of painting and photography. Human character in the photograph and the painting, lack with motion, interacts with their environment; with solo figures, couples, or groups. It demonstrates the emotions of these human in various environments, including public places, in apartments, on the road. Hopper positioned his characters as if they have been captured just before or just after the climax of a scene, like stills for a movie or tableaux in a play. A quiet story happening in silence that transforms into a rush of emotion.

His painting somehow resonances the style I'm trying to approach in my personal photography works.

hmm.

photo about thoughts

bla bla bla again




So as being a photographer, an artist that masters the light and the camera:
One of the most important thing is to have your own distinctive style. Gotta separate yourself from others, the general public.
I haven't fully developed my own style yet, but I know what I am doing, and where am I going.



These days cause of the popularization of the digital cameras, photography no longer is that such a luxury hobby for the rich and famous ones. Cause of the more people out there doing photography, it's even more important to stand out from everyone. There is just too much photographers these days all doing the same photos, the same pose, the same composition. The beginners all just copy others style, they get lost and lose themselves in the "taste of the general public" tidal wave. Being a photographer is never as artistic as it was anymore.




To make an example, photographers we see today most frequently, wedding photographers.


There is nothing wrong being a wedding photographer.
But if everyone all does the same kind of photos, then thats not no longer art.

Most of the wedding photographers, especially female wedding photographers (nothing personal), they all tend to do the same kind of photos.

They love to make the bride and groom "gloomy" in the photo with photoshop.
They love to tilt the horizon, to make the photo look more "fun".
They love to do posing pictures, with both the boy and girl faking.
They love to edit the photo in photoshop and tune up the contrast, vibrancy, saturation to make it look more "vivid".

I mean, it's all faked up.

Okay okay, I'm more a documentary style photographer. So it's my problem, huh.

hmm
Nope.

Let me ask you
Isn't a wedding/marriage a on going process?
Isn't it real? Like happening?
Then why faking it by adding those things? Posing pictures showing how beautiful and how handsome the bride and groom is.
How beautiful is the smile is.


Oh please, you can get the most beautiful smile easier than posing and faking it.



"A lot of photographers spend their entire lives try to create the perfect picture, there is no such thing. The only thing that is perfect is the moment" Joe buissink



the Moment, the Real human emotions are something that you cannot make up.



Photography is about the real stuff. It's the real stuff in the photo, the moment that carries the emotion and the meaning.
The true beautiful thing is the emotions, not how it it looks on the surface.


I think a lot photographers do not know this.


Or they might have just forgotten it, cause to survive they must adopt the general public's taste.









this is just my own perception of photography.

A lot of people might disagree with me

I don't blame them.

Because the perception of art is subjective.

that gives me the right to criticize them too.



Sometimes I hate to let people know I'm a photographer, cause photography has just made itself cheap.

it's almost like:
Photographer=Cheap artist.



you get my point?



BTW, I hate doing wedding photography.



but here is a wedding photographer I truly admire:
http://www.joebuissink.com/

the hardest part

is to have a bunch of free time and nothing to do.

especially when your personal computer is in the process of repair.

plus the gaming rig is down.



I just didn't grew up in a environment that requires you to make up things to do by yourself.

Taiwan....you can never not find things to do.


But the States, even the wonderful Silicon Valley.... without friends and money...it's the same as stuck in the middle of the corn field some where in Iowa.


And plus my iPod has deceased. A lonely night without money, without music, without friends. Ah crap.


I'm really going crazy with all this emptiness. Can't wait to go back to Hawaii. Seriously.

But will I succeed in going back?

Thats another issue.

photography

"Photography"

n.
The art or process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces.
The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
A body of photographs.







It's been a while I have not yet taken a single photo.

Like three weeks or something.

Not a single photo.



Feel like losing myself these days.
Donno why.


whats photography?

It's the process of make a moment into eternity.

the motion, emotions, all of it.



So according to my own definition above.

I think I just don't have much to make into eternity these days.

Nothing much happening.

things are turning superficial around me these days.

Or just I'm blinded?


But what caused the blind?


Or I just needed more emotions into the daily life?

brain-freeze(Not Literal )

So after a few months without schooling, my brain went into a no-idea state.
Any thoughts deeper than 3mm from the brain surface just doesn't exist anymore.
this thoughtful thoughts blog just became:"thoughtless thoughts"

I think I need school.

Yes, studying make a human's brain more than juicy tofu.

Indeed.


I've been missing out my Time's reading for quite a while, I think I'll make tomorrow a reading day.

Yes, reading.




So here we have the thoughts thoughtful question of the day:

What really is friendship?




btw, the Costco part-time job went okay today. I wish I get the phone call in on week.

stuck

so I'm stuck here agin.

with uncertain plans

too much possibilities

way too much "what if?"


it's the money, the job, hawaii, the girl, friendship, salt lake, school, life and all that crap.


Still I'm siting here in my living room, without the panic on my face.

"What am I hesitating?"









just like the impression I got from "(500) days of summer".
but it's probably not going to be what you think it will be.




.friendship.
I might even visit new york city this december.

so we all gonna see each other in salt lake city next winter?
Go to the Sundance film festival altogether
jump in the snow and do a snow fight.

(I want to try jumping into the snow with just my shorts on.)
Dance on the streets saying hi to random people.

train myself into a marksman.

have my 21st birthday in vegas,(probably not.)





anyways.



hope I can attend the appointment with the Hawaii beach on time.

I'll see ya there

yellowstone.

cute little fella! how are ya!





seems like you got friends.






and hello Mister.


























beautiful hot springs










































all on EOS40D.


The good ones on film has yet to come.

patient my friends.

friend project #4

Jesus Molinar



Taken while visiting April Powell in Del Rio, TX.

He's a close friends of the Powell's/Mills. And a good friend of mine when I was in BYUH. Political Science Major. Graduating this December along with April.

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Friends Project#3

The third set of the friend project.

April Powell.







Taken while visiting her family in Del Rio, TX.

She's Brooke's older sister, second oldest in the family. And a good friend of mine when I was in BYUH. She's an art major. Graduating this december.

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Friends Project#2

Brooke Powell.





Taken while visiting her family in Del Rio, TX this July.

She's April's younger sister. She's a photography major in BYU-Idaho. She's also heading to BYUH for the fall semester.

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the first few of FRIENDS project.

My still on going FRIENDS project on film,

The very first few photos that came out, featuring me dear friend Chelsea.







These was taken while she was visiting California with her best Carla.



More to come soon.

busy traveling.

Small update for you peeps.

I was driving with an average speed of 85-95mph on I-80 today.

Six hours of driving in the Nevada desert.

Way fun.

It was my dad's idea to head to Yellowstone national park.


Just got back from the Utah/Texas summer trip last night.

The flight from Denver to SanJose was kinnda dramatic. A freaking delay starved me.


Texas was hell hot, yes, 110˚F consistently everyday.

Yes, I love Jalapeño's, but spicy pooping wasn't my favorite.

April&Jesus&Brooke were amazing. I mean, AMAZING.

So nice to see them after all this separation during the winter.


Yes, the attitude in Utah almost choked me the first few days.

Nice to see dear Collette(her mommy too), Morgan, and Matt . Also Roxanne and Bonnie. Plus Brett, Christian, Kaytie and bla.

Collette and Morgan are going to SC for a country music national contest, wish them two girls good luck.

Tried out every fragrance on the shelf in Macy's at Collette's working place. Yum.


Oh yeah, Katie got married. And the photos were amazing.(you don't hear amazing from me much these days.)



So I'm 3 hours away Salt Lake City on Interstate 80, at a small town in Nevada called Wills.

Heading north tomorrow morning, passing by Rexburg(where BYU-I is located), then deep into Yellowstone National Park.

So my dad just told of he reservesed some "all nature" cabins in the park.

No internet for 4 days. CRAP.

Wish I don't turn into a caveman after this.

this is me now, taken 2 days ago.






BTW. I just sent in 6 rolls of film this morning. I think the mail box might be stuffed when I get back home on the 27th.
Anyways, good photos are coming.