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Carnival Liberty
This entire week was the cruise trip. 7 days of no internet and everything to do with water~ I place this trip as a 78% satisfaction, with points displaced due to 4th year design project on the line… but at the same time, the vacation opened my eyes...
Sunrise in Palinuro
Wake up at 5:45... go looking for a "bar" in downtown palinuro ("in paese") where I can get a croissant ("cornetto") and a expresso with a hint of warm milk in it ("eSpresso macchiato"). The run over to the port to take some sunrise photos of the boa...
Rome Window Shopping
The above movie takes you on a walk through Rome. If you like shopping, this is the walk you have to take... if you miss Rome, these are the places you used to visit on a Sunday.
To make this video, I took over 300 photos (collages here), walking fo...
Griffith Observatory
Three shots - bam bam bam! (Some advice at the far bottom).
Took these photos at the Griffith Observatory.
on a weekend the place fills up - a lot. Suggestions:
drive up to the observatory at least an hour before sunset.
park on the road to...
Manfrotto MKC3-H01
I got the Manfrotto MKC3-H01 recently. It's a compact, super light tripod - while versatile, its main focus is being light and small.
Here is my quick review. I dont know what professionals review tripods on, but I'll give it my best shot.
Travel-f...
More Traffic
I Typically dont put in other people's posts into my blog - i.e. I dont "borrow" - but this is such a good link I think I might just go ahead and start doing it :)
Useful advice on how to get more traffic to your websiteCreative Commons License
Fee...
Quiety Traversing
The past few weeks have been busy… not because I have a lot of work to do, rather just a lot of gaming and movie watching activities that take up my time to write blogs.
This is Robo, everyday he has to kneel down to open the office door... FAIL
The...
Pray tomorrow, makes me higher
Piazza di Spagna... 1 am on a July night. Truth is, I really do like photos where I can capture beautiful surroundings and the people therein at the same time.
People give the settings life.
The setting elevates the people.
Love it :)
PS: more ph...
Between Stations
In Stazione Termini in Rome, the Roman central train station, you can still find one of those old "flipping" time schedulers. I love it.
People who travel seem to either be looking up at screens or down at the watch of their cell phones.
Below...
A poem pressed into service as a city
Above is what Anatole Broyard said about Rome (literally: "Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.").
He could not be more right. The city is so beautiful and such a mess at the same time... there is magic and there garbage. Far from being a...
Endless doors of Rome
Ever wanted to go shopping in Rome? Here is a bit of "virtual window shopping" for those who love the historical center of Rome. For those who have never been, this is what you should expect.
The collages below are made of almost 300 photos of door...
Trains and Frames
Experiment time! I made this short video using the Picasa video tool - and now I can say... "not a big fan!"
Issues:
It does not let me play with giving different photos different "air times" - especially the final credit one.
The copy slides have t...
Finally no more Robbers + Fido!
さらば BITCHES!!!!!!!
FINALLY. FINALLY! No more Robbers (aka Rogers) and Fido. FINALLY!
BUT OMG…ANOTHER POST? …moving on~
So after using my N82 for god-know how many years (at least 6?), I finally got a new phone, the Google Nexus S. Why the hell di...
Campari in Rome
Went for a walk to ponte milvio to get a quick aperitif. Normally go for the Crodino, made the mistake of getting a Campari... it was ok, nothing more. But it did help with the extreme heat Rome is suffering.
Above a photo of the locks that young co...
Something from the western front
Really quickly from Cologne - a couple of photos "under the dome".
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RE: I hate essays.
“YES I PASSED THIS DAMN PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!”
OMG A POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…anyway moving on.
Seriously, that essay last time took my hair out. Mark just came out today, got a 75%. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Well one bad thing, since the essay is worth 25%...
Starry Sky and Catcher
Friday night was quite lonely the majority of the day. Had meetings at work and projects to finish before I leave. A lot of work crammed in a short period of time. At least I am enjoying my last work term and the few days that remains. At night, I go...
Everybody Loves a Conspiracy
After my first try in Venice, I'm continuing to work on my exposure fusions. The above is a mix of 3 photos - see the original photos below. Keep in mind, the photos are fused in Photomatix, but they arent resized to perfectly fit each other or anyth...
Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary
Piazza di Torre Argentina, in the historical setting of the center of Rome, is known for the large amount of stray cats that inhabit the ruins at the center of the piazza. Rome is known as the "City of Cats" and this is one of the reasons why - right...
Where I found the Ohmu Shell
"Where I found the Ohmu Shell" - Tokyo, Japan.
I used the sharpening tutorial I found at the "Perfect Photo Blog" for this photo, applying it against some detailing and sharpening in Topaz Adjust. I hope you like the result.
The photo was taken in T...
Been a while…
YES I REALLY REALLY ?:”{}@!&%) HATE THEM!
So yeah, umm, wow…been more than 2.5 months since I last blogged orz. Now I usually spend most of time on Twitter, and there is nothing really worth blogging this past 2 months. Well it was terrible to say th...
Walk to the Beach
Took a walk last weekend from Abbot Kinney to Venice Beach. On a nice day, half of LA throws itself down the 10 and towards Santa Monica, Venice and other LA beach towns. A walk from Abbot Kinney to the beach gives you the best of two worlds - first....
How To Page is Up
Here is the link and here is the page below :)
This is a work in progress and my tutorials are quite "raw", but here is a bit of my experience shared.
How to Make a Photo Mosaic - ever seen those photos made of hundreds or thousands of other photo...
Nankurunaisa
August 4th, Saya's birthday
It was a busy evening - 20 chiropterans had appeared on the outskirts of Sydney, so Saya had to work late. Meanwhile, on my end....
I seldom dress up, so felt a bit...
Life, travel and subcultures on and off the int...
Paint the Skies of Cologne
As I'm getting ready to go to the next Gamescom in Cologne, I recently went back to see some of my old Cologne 2010 images (link, link, link and link). When observing this (above) image from last year I however determined it did not amaze me as much...
What they were looking at...
For those who remember the Piano Man photo, many people (uhm... more like a few, well... almost nobody, but they were important!) have shown interest into figuring out what most of thew crowd was doing, rather than listen to the Piano Man.
Nothing e...
Marble on Marble
Piazza Navona in downtown historical center of Rome, Italy. Very hot day, a lot of tourists arounds. Was taking photos while listening to the "Hero of Ages" by +Brandon Sanderson on my old gen Nano (the new square one is a bit hard to control)....
Harajuku Laforet
If you go to Harajuku in Tokyo, you should be prepared to be overwhelmed by Japanese younglings, dressed in ways that are definitely bizarro, who push their ways (in a polite manner) through extremely crowded streets.
If you are in for some serious...
Shibuya from The Cerulean
Quick Photo of the day - Shibuya by night from the Cerulean Tower in Tokyo.
For photos like these, you dont need a chopper in Tokyo - just get yourseful in a elevator for 60 seconds. The top of the Cerulean has quite an amazing view.Creative Commons...
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace
Santa Maria della Pace is one of the most beautiful 1500s churches in Rome (Italy), especially due to the well known cloister or "chiostro" (you read it kyostrro) of Bramante - who's main architectural works include:
Santa Maria presso San Satiro,...
The White Hat
Today's photos are from Piazza Navona, in Rome. An interesting sky complemented this wonderful and historical piazza. Now the question is... which photo treatments in better?
The photo above is has a very slight detail enhancement & natural coloring...
The Temple of Hera
Quick post/photo from my recent travels. This is Paestum, and what you are seeing is (should be?) the 2nd Temple of Hera in the city.
I will talk more about Paestum in a later post... but do you know who Hera is? Also known as Juno (in Rome), she i...
Omotesando I Presume
This is a photo of Omotesando crossing (I presume). When I take these wide area photos with a lot of people in them I wish I had a camera with more mega pixels. The most interesting thing about photos like these ones (other examples: New York, Ortise...
Want a Rose?
If you ever visit the historical center of Rome, and if you are with your significant other... you will always be harassed by rose bearing "vu cumpra'." Vu Cumpra' literally means, "Wanna Buy?"
The only way to survive the flower bearing sellers is t...
Asakusa Senso-Ji
Above is the Senso-Ji in Asakusa - in September. It's a pretty trafficked area, with lots of tourists, both from Japan and from abroad. Asakusa is a great place to do some temple sightseeing and to visit the permanent open-market area where you can d...
Ueno Saigo Takamori
This a submission to the July 2011 J-Festa
Ueno Park (上野公園), Tokyo (東京)
A solitary statue of a man and his dog stands in a park - a normal, unassuming sight. One can almost be forgiven for...
Life, travel and subcultures on and off the i...




