Update

Due to my professional commitments, travelling, training, apartment hunting and moving to a new apartment. I am unable to post regularly or take photographs (its been raining here for 3 weeks now).

Hopefully, I shall start posting regularly in the first week of Feb.

No pay, no license

I saw this sticker on a self-service automated gas pump in Lexington, Kentucky. I can't think of a way for anyone to get gas from that pump without paying, and there were no video cameras around in that run down pump.

Tsunami size smoothie

Now that's what I call "Bad Taste"!
How come Tsunami size is only 6oz bigger than the Medium size (22oz)?? :)

I took this picture at the Surf City Squeeze, Newark airport New Jersey

till death do us part...

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Last few days of the current lunar month, feels almost sad.
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Shutter speed: 1/60	Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 160	Camera: FujiFilm S602Z (no Tripod)

Silhouette

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I took this picture with the Sigma 300mm F4.5 lens at sunset today. This owl was sitting on the roof of a grocery store.
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Shutter speed: 1/400	Aperture: F7
ISO: 160	Camera: Canon 300D (no Tripod)

New lens

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I finally received my Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 II Macro Super lens!
I am so excited about it and cant wait to try it out. Yeah! yeah!! it's a cheap lens but I don't care :D

Wild flowers

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Shutter speed: 1/630	Aperture: F2.83 (Flower mode)
White Balance: Cloudy	Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z (No Tripod)

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Shutter speed: 1/630	Aperture: F2.83 (Flower mode)
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The oddest place to find flowers is at the intersection of El Camino Real and Mathilda Ave in Downtown Sunnyvale. If there is one good thing that has come out from all this rain (3rd week and counting), its these beautiful flowers. The contrast of bare dark trees and bringht, vibrant flowers was quite interesting
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Shutter speed: 1/630	Aperture: F2.83 (Flower mode)
White Balance: Cloudy	Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z (No Tripod)

It can't rain all the time

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It has been raining on and off for the second week now, I am getting a little tired of it. Can't go out and have been coughing like crazy, I think I might be allergic to humidity :(

Side note: The title of this post is from a great song by Jane Siberry, it was on the Soundtrack of 'The Crow'
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Shutter speed: 1/79	Aperture: F2.83 (Macro mode)
White Balance: Cloudy	Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z (No Tripod)

Smoking mountains

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First day of sunlight after a week of rain felt wonderful! I took this picture at sunset today and stitched about 9 shots to make a panorama that is just a click away.
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Shutter speed: 1/125	Aperture: F2.83
ISO: 160	Camera: Canon 300D (Tripod)

Early morning train

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I took this picture by placing the lens against a small hole in the fence on the bridge, it was a really foggy morning and time was a few minutes after sunrise.
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Shutter speed: 1/2048	Aperture: F2.83
ISO: 160	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (no Tripod)

Setting sail

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I'm homesick, feel like I should set sail now and go home.
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Shutter speed: 1/12	Aperture: F2.83 (Macro mode)
ISO: 160	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (no Tripod)

Raindrops keep falling on my head

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It has been raining since yesterday, and everything is wet! :(
update: San Francisco has issued a flood warning for this week because this rain has broken the city's record from previous years

I took this picture by standing as close to the water drops as I possibly could without getting my camera wet. It turns out that with a high shutter speed, this position gives you enough time to capture the falling drops.
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Shutter speed: 1/250	Aperture: F8
ISO: 400	Camera: Canon 300D (no tripod)

Breathing life into stone

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The fountain outside my office has some big rocks in it for aesthetics, and this one rock has a plant growing out of its cracks. Life is full of miracles :)
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Shutter speed: 1/239	Aperture: F2.83 (Flower mode)
ISO: 160	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (No Tripod)

Broken

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I was in downtown San Jose when I saw these petals on the sidewalk in front of the Hong Kong bank building. The petals must have come from the flowerpot on the side; It was kind of sad to see a young vibrant flower lying there lifeless, torn to pieces on the sidewalk like that.

Looks like a crime scene, doesn't it? Or may be I've been watching too much Court TV lately :)
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Shutter speed: 1/274	Aperture: F4.99 (Macro mode)
ISO: 160	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (Tripod)

Merry Christmas

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Shutter speed: 1/1	Aperture: F9
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Memories

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Shutter speed: 1/1	Aperture: F7
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The laundry room window

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I love Christmas, even the simplest of things looks so beautiful this time around.
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Shutter speed: 1/8	Aperture: F2.83
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Rockin' around the Christmas tree

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Another San Jose tradition along with "Christmas in the Park" is this singer who sits outside at the corner of the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose facing Christmas in the Park; I have been seeing him at the same spot every year. People really enjoy him, they dance and sing along with him :)
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Shutter speed: 1/4	Aperture: F2.8
Time: 10:00 pm (approx.)	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (no tripod)

The Christmas Star

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The Christmas star symbolizes high hopes and high ideals - hope for good fortune, hope for reaching above oneself. For all human beings, regardless of religion, stars have special meaning for all share the heavens, no matter what barriers keep them apart on earth.

I took this picture at a small park in the middle of downtown San Jose, surrounded by the Tech Museum of Innovation and the San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose has a tradition of putting up a small christmas display in that park every year, its called "Christmas in the Park".
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Shutter speed: 1/49	Aperture: F2.83 (Flower mode)
Time: 6:30 pm	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (no tripod)

Pigeons

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Pigeons sleep under bridges laying next to a wall at night but they fly to the tallest place every morning to see the sunrise.
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Shutter speed: 1/416	Aperture: F6.32
Time: 6:50 am	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (no tripod)

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Some say that Pigeons gather around to praise God, the creator of sunrise.
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Shutter speed: 1/1024	Aperture: F2.83
Time: 6:50 am	Camera: Fuji FinePix S600Z (no tripod)