Photography

Favorite Photos of 2017

Random Observation/Comment #596: Seriously, what am I going to do with all these baby photos? This has been an incredible year of love and family. While I may not have traveled too much outside of work, this year was in itself the beginning of a new adventure. ~See Lemons Remember 2017

Favorite Photos of 2015

Random Observation/Comment #538: If you never stop dreaming and planning new and exciting things with the people you love, each year will hopefully be the best year of your life. It’s another year growing closer and forming unbreakable bonds. When you’re doing a year-end review, there’s a mandatory road down facebook/instagram lane where you almost instantly relive your life through...

[Lessons Learned] Networking Strategically with Hobbies

Random Observation/Comment #493: It’s not about who you know, it’s about who knows you. When networking, make sure you’re clear to the value you can add professionally, and people will keep you in mind with your goals. The idea of a work-life balance always made me think that you need to trade off one for the other. This didn’t make...

Android Lens Blur: Foodtographer’s Dream Feature

Random Observation/Comment #432: Foodtography single handedly covers all my passions. If I could just spend all day doing these things, I’d be happy: Traveling to a new place with unique food, Cooking food, taking photos of food, eating food, writing reviews about food, and then taking a nap. Life would be perfect. Around this time last year, Google’s camera released a...

[Lessons Learned] Studio Photography

Random Observation/Comment #423: It’s important to explore the breadth and depth of your hobbies. You’d be surprised at how many different styles there are of doing things and how much creativity can come from something that looks mundane. Studio photography has always been too rich for my blood and just way too staged for my liking. I like the idea...

[Lessons Learned] Wedding Photography

Random Observation/Comment #418: Wedding photography is a different beast from event photography. There’s so much more to learn… Weddings are beautiful. You’re there for a ceremony celebrating the beginning to a (hopefully) everlasting bond of teamwork and friendship. The opportunity to record such an emotional event is certainly a privilege. While obviously stressful to get those perfect shots, I think...

[Lessons Learned] Time-lapse Photography

Random Observation/Comment #411: Life is about trying new things and retrying old things. I guess life is just about trying? No, that’s too complicated. Life is about not thinking about trying. Time-lapses are a series of photos that are strung together and then sped up to condense something like 700 photos into 12-seconds of video. What you’re left with is...

[Q&A] JP the Photographer

[Q&A] JP the Photographer

Random Observation/Comment #360: On the surface, the most simple things look mundane and uninteresting, but diving deeper, even the most simple things can be its own art form. JP, my photographer friend and table tennis coach/rival, shared his experience with photography and art with Credit Suisse earlier this week. I was so inspired that I felt the need to summarize...

Android Photosphere: Beats my DSLR

Android Photosphere: Beats my DSLR

Random Observation/Comment #355: I still refer to my smartphone as a cellphone out of habit. I should just name it… JARVIS. Y’know that guy who holsters his DSLR to use his smartphone to take pictures? Well – that’s me. I’m the guy holding up the Galaxy Nexus panning around slowly with the photosphere. Why? It’s to stitch photos and easily...

Day 23: Event Photography

Day 23: Event Photography

Random Observation/Comment #310: The camera is the best way to start a conversation with a stranger.  When I was traveling the world, I picked up girls by asking them to take my picture while at a scenic location during a free tour.  From there, it’s not too difficult to ease my way into conversation with “Where are you from?” questions. ...

Food-tography Obsession

Food-tography Obsession

Random Observation/Comment #259: I have been filling my void of writing here with status updates, tweets, buzzes, foodspotting food pic descriptions, yelp reviews, ted comments, and check-ins.  I guess the micro-blogging world has made me need the long streams of consciousness a bit less necessary. Of course, the daily dairy still lives on, yet there’s less of this (whatever this...