The Final Hours of Photography April 26, 2014

For the last two hours of taking pictures, I drove around South San Francisco and shot some pictures around the areas.  Specific sights that I went to finish up my business were orange park, my school, and a small area near my house. I have to admit, I put a lot of effort and energy into these final hours, because I learned how to love and appreciate what a camera can do. During these final hours, I realized how amazing photography is to me, because it will be a hobby that i'll definitely be doing throughout my life.

Time logged: 2hrs
Total Time Logged: 25 hrs

Adventuring around UCSB April 20, 2014

     Not much happened during this hour except for some photo shooting around UCSB. The campus was definitely gorgeous with all the trees and lakes around me. The hour went by really fast, but I got a good amount of photos in that sixty minutes. I mainly practiced my blurring technique with plants and flowers I thought would be pretty cool. I wish I had more time to take the pictures,  but this gives me to do more adventuring and photo shooting.

Time logged: 1 hour
Total time logged: 23 hours

White Waves Makes Clear Skies Through My Lens April 20, 2014

        Finally Spring break has began! This meaning I can take some photos farther from home! During this time, I went down to LA with my sister for spring break. When we got down to LA, my sister took me to Santa Monica to eat and also to take some photos. We spent two good hours going around the area to take some pictures and eat. I took all sort of photos over there. Pictures from food to gorgeous pictures of the ocean. The area was really cool, especially how there was an amusement park right next to the beach. My sister and I went around that area to take pictures of the roller coaster and the ferris wheel. After taking pictures around the amusement park, we went down to the beach where we took photos around the beach. The area was huge, so we didn't go too far with the pictures, but I was able to take some remarkable pictures. I have to admit i thought my photos wouldn't come out too well. Problems I had to overcome was dealing with large crowd. There were so many people and cars in the way, which created some frustration and impatience feelings inside of me. Now with the hours I have though, I've grown more experience with these type of situations. Patience definitely enabled me to take the pictures I took during those times.

Time logged: 2hrs
Total Time Logged: 22hrs

A Day of Absolute Productivity March 30, 2014

      Man, I have never done so much walking like this in so long... Pretty much I spent my morning at Church, which is located in China Town near North Beach. After worship, I went down to pier 39 to take some pictures and to do some adventuring. I even took pictures on my way down to the pier because the weather was gorgeous and the community was just presentable. Finally when we got the the pier, my sister brought me around to the harbor, which gave me a pretty good scenery of Alcatraz and both the bay bridge and golden gate bridge. Continuing on our adventure, we then stopped near this place where there was a numerous amount of seals tanning and doing what seals do best. I definitely took this opportunity to get some pretty good shots of seals playing and tanning. After doing some photo-shooting, I then had a basketball tournament to play at for my church. I had to walk back to the gym, and while doing so. I took pictures of everything I saw. When I wasn't playing during the tournament, I would take action shots of the people playing basketball. Some pictures came out better than others, but it was pretty fun taking pictures of people shooting, dribbling, and just playing in general. These hours I spent definitely got the best of my body, but hey! It was worth every single minute of the experience.

Time logged for this session: 3 hours
Total Time Logged: 20 hours

Nature Brings Peace March 29, 2014

      On this wet day, my parents brought me to a really nice place called Muir Woods to get some good hours. This place was literally filled with tall red wood trees and nice looking greens, which gave me the opportunity to practice some photo-shooting. The only problem about the area was that it was drizzling a bit, that then made me cautious, because I didn't want my camera to be ruined. On the other hand.... I really enjoyed my time out there working on blurring photos and zooming into objects. The goal of these few hours was to experience taking photos in some sort of "wilderness," because I was out there and it felt like I was taking pictures at the forest. The only good part of the wet weather, was that wetness created a pretty reflection, which gave more details and light to the objects I took photos of. Overall these hours I obtained from Muir Woods expanded my knowledge of taking in-depth photos. I was able to take pictures of flowers  while adding more texture and color to it's appearance.

Time Logged: 2 hours
Total time: 17 hours

Adventure Time! March 22, 2014

       Man where do I even start.... Well I guess I can say that I went on a trip to Reno, but on my way we stopped by various places to go adventuring and take pictures. First we stopped by for breakfast in San Francisco, thus gave me the opportunity to take pictures. I have to admit long car rides definitely sucks, but what can I do to kill time? Take pictures of course! I took pictures of the bay bridge, down town San Francisco, and the hills we passed by.
       We stopped by Sacramento State to check out the campus and to go exploring. I took so many pictures, but mainly of squirrels running around and doing what they do. It was so cool seeing the squirrels react to my whistle and actually, these squirrels have the guts to walk up to anyone including me. It took tons of patience to get the squirrels to stand the way I wanted them to stand. Moving on to the other things in that campus, I took pictures of a very cool bridge, which was designed as a "miniature"-size  golden gate bridge. There I took pictures of my family and everything around the bridge. There was a river that flowed under the bridge, which made the bridge look even more legit. I spent two good hours around the campus being adventurous and put my camera to good use.
        On our way to Reno, I took some pictures of some snow that we passed by and some other pretty scenery up on the mountains. Having a sister that cares, she pulled up to the side where tourists or anyone can stop to enjoy the nice scenery. I played around with the shutter and amplitude to obtain the best filter of the snow and the trees up on the mountains.
        Overall, I spent seven good hours taking pictures in the car and everywhere I gone in this trip. I finally had the opportunity to be away from home not only to have a small trip, but to get some hours done and to enjoy my time taking good photos. Every hour I would take around 10- 20 pictures of anything that seemed amusing to these eyes of mine.

Time logged for this session: 6 hrs
total time logged: 15 hrs

Splash! March 15, 2014

         Swimming is a huge part of my life, I pretty much grew up swimming competitively and for fun. Pretty much the swimming pool is like my second home because I spend hours in there swimming and working.
        On a nice sunny day, I decided to take advantage of the nice weather to go shoot some photos at my school's pool during practice. It was awesome mainly because the weather was nice and the pool just looked gorgeous from the lighting of the sun. I went around the pool taking different angle shots, playing with my camera's features, and just enjoying my time capturing shots. Action shots were definitely the main core of this hour, because every small move that a swimmer makes is worth the moment to take a picture of.




Time logged in for this session: 1 hr
Total time logged: 9 hrs