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2013 | May 12
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Happy Mothers Day

For the mothers who make a difference in your life. Thank you for my mother who had supported me for my interest into photography. All of my craft was catalyzed from my mother’s support.

With each these pictures I was contemplated of the frame, the choice of focus and light. I preferred to use longer depth of the foreground to background. Having multiple colors for a frame allowed the camera to properly give a deeper color depth. in addition to supplementing the sun with a flash.

May you be enjoying your time with your mother sharing the love of what she has ment to you.

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2013 | Apr 23
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Time is Eternal After nearly one year since meeting at the Kauffman in Kansas City, Lina and I had met in Vancouver. My parents had asked me what word would capture the trip. Wonderful really resonated with me. Meeting Lina felt as a gift for the patience we both had after that year without seeing each other. It made our time together more cherished. The time made me more reflective and thoughtful for the moments we had. It made me mentally prepare pictures that I wanted to capture the feelings of our meeting. I surprised myself, as once I viewed the pictures on the LCD I just stared dumbfounded with an ear widened smile. When Lina saw the pictures, she told me that my camera made reality more beautiful then it appeared. I beamed and told her what makes the difference is the photographer whose message is abel to convey the personality through time into a simple rectangle of random pixels. I am so grateful for my parents for their support, and for Lina to explore a foreign country with me. Thank you for allowing me to share that memory with you.

Time is Eternal

After nearly one year since meeting at the Kauffman in Kansas City, Lina and I had met in Vancouver.

My parents had asked me what word would capture the trip. Wonderful really resonated with me. Meeting Lina felt as a gift for the patience we both had after that year without seeing each other. It made our time together more cherished.

The time made me more reflective and thoughtful for the moments we had. It made me mentally prepare pictures that I wanted to capture the feelings of our meeting. I surprised myself, as once I viewed the pictures on the LCD I just stared dumbfounded with an ear widened smile.

When Lina saw the pictures, she told me that my camera made reality more beautiful then it appeared. I beamed and told her what makes the difference is the photographer whose message is abel to convey the personality through time into a simple rectangle of random pixels.

I am so grateful for my parents for their support, and for Lina to explore a foreign country with me. Thank you for allowing me to share that memory with you.

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2013 | Apr 15
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A Costly Learning Lesion

When I was taking some pictures of products I was selling on eBay, I inadvertently placed my memory card incorrectly to the camera. With just a light force, this push damaged 2 pins of the card slot. These small delicate pins crippled my camera to the point it could not operate at all. The camera could not operate at all. 

To have these delicate pins repaired, I had to take the camera to a specialists to maintain my warranty. Due to the complexity of modern DSLR cameras, several components had to be removed to expose the damaged pins. This complexity cost me about a third of the camera original price for only two small pins.

I will now be much more conscious when I operate my memory cards and camera. My weakness was being distracted while I was trying to place my memory card in my camera. Without the proper orientation, you will damage the small pin for a memory card to be read in any device, not just a camera.

Now my camera and I can relate to each other with our own memory components having surgery for saving our lives.

I have to give a huge gratitude for Photo-Tronics in Seattle, which was able to repair my camera within days after my operation faux pas. If you are ever in the same situation, Photo-Tronics will have a faster turnaround than the camera manufactory, maintain the equipments warranty, and not pay shipping to the item.

In the past, Photo-Tronics was also able to repair my parents old film camera which was just falling apart due to old age. They were able to make it operate like brand new. If you are in the Western Washington, you may give them a call for your own faux pas. 

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2013 | Apr 08
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Residual Aphasia Despite the six years post stroke, I still have remnants of language evaporation  Reading, which I used to be voracious about, is still laborious for me. To combat my deficit  I signed up for the MIT Technology Review and Popular Photography magazines to force myself to attempt short articles to read. In the past, I used to be able to read in the evening, but now my brain begins to shut down in the evenings and reading is more challenging then before. As an engineer, I decided to optimize my reading experience, and chose a different time of day. Since I find myself just sitting in the morning eating breakfast, I attempted to read an article in the morning. While I am not sure if this is due to the topic, or distraction within the room,  the MIT articles seem to be harder to comprehend. It may be due to their longer lengths compared to the Popular Photography magazine. I find myself taking longer periods to finish the Tech Review articles. If I am in a quiet room with little distraction, I am able to silently read an article and be able to read its length with no headache or visual migraines. In the past, even when I was reenrolled at MIT, I needed a finger or note card to guide my eyes to follow the correct lines, in addition of reading out loud.  Despite the current limitations, I still feel self empowered that I can still be able to complete a magazine, where in the past I would have avoided or unable to. I smile realizing that I can flip the final page, and read the entire magazine. I found myself finishing a magazine a week, almost to the point I was able to be on time for the new magazine issues.

Residual Aphasia

Despite the six years post stroke, I still have remnants of language evaporation  Reading, which I used to be voracious about, is still laborious for me.

To combat my deficit  I signed up for the MIT Technology Review and Popular Photography magazines to force myself to attempt short articles to read.

In the past, I used to be able to read in the evening, but now my brain begins to shut down in the evenings and reading is more challenging then before. As an engineer, I decided to optimize my reading experience, and chose a different time of day. Since I find myself just sitting in the morning eating breakfast, I attempted to read an article in the morning.

While I am not sure if this is due to the topic, or distraction within the room,  the MIT articles seem to be harder to comprehend. It may be due to their longer lengths compared to the Popular Photography magazine. I find myself taking longer periods to finish the Tech Review articles.

If I am in a quiet room with little distraction, I am able to silently read an article and be able to read its length with no headache or visual migraines. In the past, even when I was reenrolled at MIT, I needed a finger or note card to guide my eyes to follow the correct lines, in addition of reading out loud. 

Despite the current limitations, I still feel self empowered that I can still be able to complete a magazine, where in the past I would have avoided or unable to.

I smile realizing that I can flip the final page, and read the entire magazine. I found myself finishing a magazine a week, almost to the point I was able to be on time for the new magazine issues.

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2013 | Apr 01
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The Pain of Beauty

Earlier this week I had went with my family to see Monbacks for the opportunity to take some pictures of their flowers.

I am not sure if it was due to my new equipment, but I noticed that after some time at the garden, my left thumb began to distract me from composing pictures

Little did I know that I had overextended my hypothenar eminence thumb muscle by having my camera lens rest on my thumb. The duration of the holding the weight of the camer-lens combination had caused my thumb to lose motor control the following days.

The subsequent days, my thumb began to inflame to a point I had no strength to open lids, cubs, or placing my socks on. It was an extremely humbling experience where I really take for granted how extensive the human thumb is for trivial activities.

I have to really give grateful thanks for my mother’s suggestions for the ability to regain my thumb motion again. The use of a small bouncy ball for massage, ibuprofen to quell the pain at night, menthol patches, and Epson MgSO4 salt bath to help my body to rebuild the muscle.

It took a week of delicacy rehab to rebuild my thumb to have the strength to give a thumbs up. My body agreed with me as well, as the inflammation had lessoned to the point my swollen thumb returned to its nearly original size after 7 days.

Whenever I take a look at the pictures I shot of these flowers, I will take more caution when I raise my camera again to snap a shot.  

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