This is the winning photo. I must say thanks to my lovely fat fat muffin. And it's fantastic to see muffin's photo in Canon's office.
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Johnson asked me about whether I wanna go into professional level and I told him that as long as I am enjoy taking photo and my friends like my photo, pro or amature doesn't really matter to me. Plus, I am still far away from those professional photographers. It's different actually. My photo is not in the commercial area and if I attend a professional level contest, I am sure that I couldn't get any prize at all. What's more, I took photo for fun. They took photo for living.
So, if my parents or Trista tells me that they love one of my photo, it means more than any prize.
I wish I could be passionate about photography forever and ever......
July 23rd is the night.
Althought I've been living in Vancouver for years, it's my first time attending the festival at Trout Lake down on the Victorial Drive. Like what Paul planed, people gathered at his place and walking down together to the lake.
I was amazed by the amount of people. They carried their lanterns, walking around the lake.
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It's crazy to see how creative people are through the lanterns.
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And of cours, there were lot of performences along the road. Fireworks, live music and people dancing around the fire.
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It's a wonderful night and thank you Paul for such fabulous invitation.
Trista and I decide to make our life an adventure.
Lately, I am interested at cocktails. I bought all kinds drinks, juices, tools and books. From the end of last month, I've been practicing. Everyday, I made myself a cup of new cocktail drink. When Trista comes back, I could then be a really good host and boyfriend who makes drinks for his love :)
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Red wine, White wine, Sake, White Rum, Dry Gin, Vodka, Tequila, Campari, Balley, Cointreau, Peach Schnapps, Dry vermouth, Sweet vermouth, Remy Martin V.S.O.P and Hennessy V.S.O.P.....Once you have all these stuff on hand, evening time becomes more and more interesting :)
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This is the Camapri carsh. It tasted good.
And now, a cup of drink with Tord Gustavsen's Jazz album "Changing places", I am sitting in front of the computer, updating my website. Feelings, all kinds of feelings are jumping out of my head. Past memories, current life and future concerns are acted like movie clips, spinning right in front of my eyes. Well, never ever put alcohol and music together into your lovely lonely night, no one could ever survive.
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Full-fill my life with knowledge toward everything. So I could be stronger and there will be NO FEAR toward my future.
Just be strong, sha gua!
If there are things to be finished, if you have to do it, then complete it and make it perfect.
NO FEAR !
And its fit to burst
I try to clean it up
But I just get worse
I wish I could fall
On a night like this
Into your loving arms
For a moon light kiss
I thought I saw your face
In the evening sky
On a lonesome cloud
That was drafting by
I wish I could fall
On a night like this
Into your loving arms
For a moon light kiss
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I miss you
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I love you and I wish you have a wonderful year!
Muffin and I will wait you coming back to open your birthday gift.
It belongs to you and only you.
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Dreamy drifting panorama, changing every day,
Every night your loving smile would be my milky way.
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Happy Birthday
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I was thinking on the way there that how many people could show up in the book store and i thought most of them should be kids. However, right after I stepped in Chapters, I knew that I was wrong. Amazingly, there are lot of adults in this huge line up.
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People even started reading the book in the store. It's interesting.
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Pity that I didn't buy the book there. I bought it online to get 40% off the original price.
It's 2:20am already. I should go to sleep now .........
Woow, this is my first ever photography prize. Trista sent me an ecard to congratulate. It's very sweet. Johnson also congratulated me when he heard the news. Thanks man!
Though it's not a huge or important photo contest, it still means alot to me. For almost two years of hard working on photography, I got the Photo Editor position in Ubyssey News Paper and winning this 3rd prize. It's a good start. I wish and I know that I could do better, since I have this endless passion toward the photography and I have all the support from my family, my girlfriend and my friends.
Like what others said:" a creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
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So far, it's the best shoot I've ever made. I decided to print it out next week and frame the photo as well.
When I checked the image from the LCD, I found out an really interesting problem. If you look at the left image below, the spot pointed by the red arrow, you could find a tiny little light dot. It's not a dust on the sensor, it's actually a glare reflected from either the UV filter or the circular polarize filter. And when I took the filter off, shooting directly through the lens (the image at the right), the light dot disappeared.
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Thank God the light dot disappeared after removing the filter. If it still on the image, then there must be something wrong with the lens. The lens I used was Canon's top line L series 70-200mm F2.8 IS USM lens. It's around 3 thousand bucks. Usually people could use the lens for years without any problem.
I keep wondering about the filter. Since the filters that I used are both top quality one. I mean a B+W UV filter in 77mm size could cost 100 bucks, compared with 60 bucks for a normal quality UV filter. People expected more on the top quality product. I wish it's just a dust on the filter. Otherwise, I am really disappointed about the B+W.
According to spaceweather.com, there was a 40% chance that people could see northen light in vancouver tonight. I was so exciting about the news and kept waiting in the car in a nice spot at North Vancouver untill 24:00. Beside a slightly blue light at the far back of the mountains, I could see nothing at all. So I drove from North Van to the UBC beach, since I could see what's happened in North direction easily and it's really dark there. I kept waiting in the car for another hour. Again, nothing happened.
Now, I am home, tired and sleepy. 2:30am, after uploading my blog, I should definitly go sleep.
Good night my sweet Trista
Good night dad and mom
Good night, fat muffin du!
This is the photo gallary for my lovely cat, Muffin. Please check out here
Well, I was so impressed by the service of my web hosting company, Lunarpages. Last night around 12:30, I applied another domain and web hosting service with Johnson through the Lunarpages. Normally, it takes 2 or 3 days to go through your application and active your website's connection. However, I got a phone call this morning at 9am. The lady in the phone told me that she is from lunarpages and my website is fully actived, ready to use. Woow, 7 Hours, I could get the full access to my new born "baby".
It's an amazingly efficient service.
Bad news from London, explosions killed many people. Couple of years ago, I went to New York City. 3 days after I came back, the world trade center was exploded. That was 9.11. And now, 2 months after I came back from London with Trista, there are explosions again. Well, what the heck is that? Why there are always people who like killing others? Are they bored?
Shame on them!
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Evening time always belongs to Muffin. She is so adorable.
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Since the light condition isn't good enough in my place, I have to set up the tripod to capture her moves. I love this photo.
There is a photo contest hosted by one of the Canadian photography magazine. This month's topic is about the family pet. I wanna select some interesting photo of Muffin and send them to compete in the contest. Well, I am not expecting a reward, but I so wanna see Muffin's photo appeared in some magazines. :) It will be so fun and I will for sure to buy 20 copies for her. So, when Muffin is old, I could show her this photo and tell her that "hey girl, you were once a fashion model."
To Muffin, the fat fat dudu cat.
$40, new Wilson's NXT tennis string.
$20, two grips for my prostaff6.0 and prince rackets.
I am ready for the summer!
But I am sick today, strengthless and headache.
And the sickness makes me miss my family more than ever.
What a day......
......I miss my girlfriend.
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