More Grand Canyon Pictures

These are my favorite pictures I took on my DSLR. I planned on posting 5 or 6, but I couldn't narrow it down further. I hope you enjoy these pictures. Hopefully I can post the video soon. Keep your eyes peeled for it =).

Clubbing

For all those fellows who are afraid to go to the clubs, watch this trailer. If you enjoy the trailer, watch the entire series...

Grand Canyon Trip

For President’s Day weekend, a group of my friends went to the Grand Canyon. Here is the story of what happened. On February 12, 2009, my friend Josh and I flew into LA. Since my two other friends had to work the next day, Josh and I spent the whole day walking around Santa Monica and Third Street. Chris and Jamie suggested we should eat at this deli called Bay City and order the Godmother. As soon as we got there, we noticed that there is nowhere to sit. Our original plan was to walk to the beach and enjoy this wonderful sandwich, but we got caught in a rainstorm. Within 2 minutes, Josh and I were soaked. Instead, we decided to find a movie theater to dry off and enjoy our sandwiches; which we didn’t because our meal got cold and soaked. By the way, we watched the movie Taken (MUST SEE!!!).

As soon as my friends got off work, we headed out. The drive was going well, and we were making great time. Around 3 in the morning, we hit a dead stop. It was getting late, and we all fell asleep in the car. When we woke up around 7 AM, we still were at a holdup. We later found out that an 18 wheeler overturned and blocked the entire freeway. The pictures below shows where we spent the night and the truck that overturned.

We arrived at our campsite around 12:30 after we enjoyed a hearty meal at a mom and pop restaurant called Smokey’s. After we settled in, we decided to walk to the canyon to enjoy the scenery. I wish I took pictures of sunset because the rest of the time we were there, it was overcast =/. When we came back from the canyon, we noticed that there were a bunch of ravens at our campsite. They broke through our cooler and ate our hamburger meat, hotdogs, lunch meat, eggs, and tomatoes; basically $60 worth of food. We all were devastated that this happened, but still laughed about it. The rest of the trip, we kept talking about how we hate ravens and we just started throwing snowballs every time we saw one. The picture below was taken the first time we saw the canyon.



As we were planning this trip, we all knew it was going to be around 10°, but we never experience that type of cold before. All I can say it was really unpleasant. When it was time to sleep, there was enough space in the tent for 6 people. As the night went on, my friend Ray kept getting closer to me for body heat. My natural reaction was to move away from him which pushed me closer to my friend Josh. When we woke up in the morning, we complained that we felt bunched up and notice that we can fit another person between Ray and the tent. The rest of the trip, we started calling Ray, “Half tent Ray”.

Overall the trip turned out great. We enjoyed the landscape, and able to throw back some beers. The rest of the pictures are myself cooking spam for breakfast, our friend Melissa enjoying the canyon, and the people who went on the trip, minus Jamie and Melissa.

The pictures on the blog were provided by Jamie. I still have to do some post processing of my pictures and I’ll post them up when I’m done. Also as soon as I get the video footage edited, I’ll post that too.

Off to the Grand Canyon

It has been a stressful and tiring 2 weeks. It was exam week, and I had an anatomy exam, anatomy practical (lab exam), and a physiology exam back to back. I got my scores, and I got 2 A's and 1 B. I'm content with my B, but now I know how to study for each class. Hopefully I can pull straight A's for now on.

To let out the stress I built up, my buddies from high school are taking a mini trip to the Grand Canyon. These buddies are the same ones I traveld with in Europe (minus Mike). We are gonna try to rough it, but it supposed to be snowing the whole time we are there. If we can't bare the cold, we will try to find a hotel to stay in. Either way, I'm just glad to get out of Pittsburg... See you when I get back =).

Childhood

People who lives in the bay area knows we tend to have a stressful life, especially the older we get. Sometimes it's nice to revert back to childhood and enjoy simple pleasures. If you have 3 minutes to spare, watch this video; and who knows, it might enspire you =).

Everlasting Flame

I'm trying to explore my artistic side to photography. I hope you enjoy these 2 pictures.

Grandfather's Funeral/Philippines Trip

These pictures are long over due. During this trip to the Philippines in July of 2008, I found out what type of photography style I like to take; PHOTOJOURNALISM. This style is more candid shots that capture true emotions of the person, and is able to tell a story.

Some of the shots where taken with my auntie's camera do to my range of lens on my camera at the time was too far. I just wanted to note that just incase you look at the metatag and notice a different camera model. I hope you enjoy the style I chose to do.