Shadow man

As promised earlier folks, here is a photo that I took while in Oregon. This was taken in the backyard of my grandparent's house. An interesting reflection of myself on the ground. With the framing of the tree's shadows surrounding me. This photo reminds me of a famous self-portrait of Ansel Adams, which you can view here. You can see another version of my self-portrait under the links labeled 'my photos' or click here.

Are robots going to change digital photography? If you don't know what I mean, then check out this article. Forget about megapixles, check out these awesome gigapixel panoramas from around the globe. This is a collaborative effort of the Global Connection Project, which is a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic. Which gives me some photography ideas I would like to explore with in the future. With this technology being produced gives us worldwide possibilities to explore and bring global awareness to everyone.

Human Tetris TV show

If you have never seen a human version of a Tetris game, check this out! This is a hilarious idea and I wish we had something like this in the U.S. You can view more of these videos under 'my videos' or click here for my favorites. Also, I've been a bit lazy on posting anything lately. So I've decided to post this video for your amusement.

A visitor?

This photo was selected as the photo of the day on a blog for Reston, VA. I was quite surprised today to find this discovery and appreciation for this photograph. My photo titled "A Visitor?" can be found on the blog Reston Citizen (http://restoncitizen.com) for Sept. 7, 2007. This was some good news to keep me inspired on taking more photos. Despite not being a professional and still developing my skills. A big thanks goes out to Joshua Davis for posting my photo.

Pond swirl

A shot of the reflection from a pond filled with koi fish. It gave it an interesting swirl effect from this direction. It also kind of reminds me of a Monet painting, with an abstract feel to it. Taken in Glide, Oregon in August 2007 using a Canon S3 IS digital camera.

ASCII Art

This art is done by an artist who suffered from spastic cerebral palsy & by using characters “@ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _”. I can’t figure how he could manage to do it. But it’s awesome! I had the fortunate experience of meeting Paul Smith, the typewriter artist while in Oregon. This happened years ago while I was visiting my great grandfather. While visiting I had remembered from this show called Incredible Sunday, an old show if anyone remembers? It just so happened to be that Paul Smith was living at the same place as my great grandfather. So, I got to meet Paul Smith and see his works of art in person, I even bought one from him. I just remembered this from finding this story on the Digg website yesterday.

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Back home

Spent a short time relaxing back in my home state (of Oregon), now I'm back home. Even though the weather was a bit unreliable, I did mention to take a few photos. Some of which will be posted here shortly, after I get done editing and choosing the better ones. Some of the highlights of the trip were: getting the first chance to play a Nintendo Wii, hiking on the Wolf Creek Falls, and visiting old friends. As well as spending time with my grandparents, whom I don't get to see as often as liked. The funny thing they told me was that they saw the Simpsons movie. Which I thought was not expected at all of them but was pretty cool. Of course they would have checked it out because it was good and you can't go wrong with that.

Melting cars

Yesterday as I went to the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. I was intrigued by a unique spiral statue that greets you upon your arrival. Check it out here for a better explanation. So, inclined to get some interesting photography from this object; I began to explore different areas around it. When I got this image of the cars in the parking lot being reflected in the spiral object. It looks as if the cars are melting in the hot summer sun. Did you read about a wealthy Russian man trying to buy a B-52 bomber? If not, then you can check out the story, click here.