Armed with flashlights, cell phones, tripod, and my camera, we headed up the hill for some light writing fun. These photos always turn out super impressive because the camera documents what we can’t see in front of us. But it’s just physics! And all it really takes is a very slow shutter (as long as…
Since I had a 4 days off for Memorial Day weekend, I talked Dan Garrison into booking tickets and flying over from Philly for some adventures from the Bay Area to Los Angeles. Pictures first. Then an overview of how our California road trip went down. Dan in front of Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood…
San Francisco Bay Area. I am still endlessly amazed that I actually live here. Within the last week, several different friends have come and gone on their various Bay Area visits, and it’s been a great excuse for me to rediscover the sights that surround me. Berkeley. The view from Ho Chie’s roof deck at…
Sunsets are so obviously beautiful, every camera-wielding human being seems compelled to take a photo. Sunsets, flowers, cute babies… I guess I can’t stop myself either. This is a collection of sunset images from Pacific Grove when we went on a spontaneous weekend visit back in March. It was ridiculously cold and windy, but of…
Shawna Yang Ryan is a talented hapa Taiwanese American writer whose debut novel, Water Ghosts, was just released on Thursday. This week, I met up with Shawna for a late-afternoon shoot on the UC Berkeley campus. Read the spotlight article we just posted on TaiwaneseAmerican.org and visit Shawna’s website at shawnayangryan.com to learn more. Last,…
I am back in Oakland now. It’s a funny feeling to be in a plane for 6 hours and yet still have a whole day ahead of me; I departed at 9am and arrived before 1pm. Between reading Shawna Yang Ryan’s new book (Water Ghosts) and watching hours of DirectTV (thanks JetBlue!), I edited a…
As promised, here are some more photos from the New York trip thus far. To start things off, we go to Central Park. My first reactions to the city: 1. it’s dirty. 2. there are too many people everywhere. I suppose these things make for a place with “character” that you can’t find anywhere else….
New York, New York! This is the first time I’ve been in New York since age 3, when I tagged along with my family to visit relatives in Jersey. And now here I am, enjoying a week-long spring break in the city of all cities. I have much to share, but for now, I will…
as i mentioned in the previous post, TAFers converged on the bay area last weekend, and we had a rather ridiculous photo shoot, inspired by jon and howard’s taiwan glamour shots from five years ago. for those of you who have never experienced asian glamour shots, it basically goes like this: they dress you up,…
i am back! it’s like coming home, really. everything is just as familiar as always. it’s strange, because it seems like no time has elapsed since i last visited. i just fall right back into the pace of life here… oh, college. i flew in to run a workshop for the itasa (taiwanese american) conference……
flashback to 1990? when i was little, we drove from michigan to california, met up with my uncle from berkeley, and drove on over to yosemite national park. that’s my little cousin and me. 19 years later, it’s my february exploration. we took off on saturday morning and arrived in the winter wonderland less than…
at the end of january, our school had a professional development day up at the oakland zoo. it had nothing to do with the zoo– we just used a lodge building that was on the zoo property. but the off-campus outing was quite nice. it’s refreshing to get some perspective with a healthy dose of…