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Lady in the alley

Carmel-by-the-sea
California

Saw nailed to the roof inside a restaurant.
Carmel-by-the-sea, California

Footsteps
Cypress Inn
Carmel-by-the-sea
California

Silicon valley was the last stop for the American Olympics team before China. The Fairmont hotel in downtown San Jose decorated their lobby with the flags of all the nations participating in the Olympics.

I can still hear the Christmas canon playing in my head when I look at this photo. Another one from Carmel Mission Basilica.

Dreams to reality

I took this photograph at the Carmel Mission Basilica, just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

There was wedding scheduled on Saturday, the church was reserved for the wedding but the courtyard and the museum were open for visitors.

The wedding felt out of this world, with Andrea Bocelli's "Con te Partiro" playing in the background and two beautiful little angels wearing white gowns pretending to be the flower girls. The brides maids were cued on "Christmas canon" (absolutely magical) and then the wedding coordinator closed the doors to cue the Bride. By that time there was a crowd of visitors that gathered outside to get a glimpse of the bride and she was a vision in white, elegant, and mesmerizing.

This whole experience felt like a dream, I had an all manual lensbabies 3G in my hand with the F2.8 aperture disk inserted and about 5-10 seconds to take a shot with the wedding coordinator out of the way.

How to: Correct the White balance

Photo credit: Samiad40
(link to the original photo)

NED Alumni Convention 2007

Update: If you can't see the embedded slide show above, click here

The 3rd annul N.E.D University Alumni Convention took place in my home town. Being a proud alumnus, I volunteered to cover the event by taking photographs.

The slide show above will grow, as I go through the 654 photos that I took on that day, so stay tuned :)

The photos in this slide show include:

Keynote speech: Return to Glory

Panel 1: From NED to NASDAQ

Happy Labor Day!

A sign posted in the window of a theater on Addison Street in Berkeley, California

The Ruling Ring

Happy feet

Downtown Buffalo

As seen from my room window at Hyatt Regency Buffalo.

Mohib at Pakwan restaurant

Mohib and I had the notorious Sunday brunch at Pakwan restaurant in Hayward today. The place was crowded and we had to sit in the "family room", this was the closest I could get to a clean shot without including any other patrons.

Url: Mohib Ahmed
Location: Pakwan restaurant

$5 shirt

I was bored at work, sue me ;-)

If you want to learn how to make your own shirts, here's a very nice tutorial

Thank you card

Howling Monkey

Shot outside a 7-Eleven store in Santa Clara (N Winchester and Newhall st.)

I have seen some funky names of energy drinks out there, but COME ON! I am not so sure about the message here. To me, a 'caffeine charged' monkey running around howlin' in a 'monkey suit' might be something I'd laugh at but certainly not something I'd want to drink

What I find interesting is the 'Multi-Vitamin' claim, because from what I read here the caffeine and sugar in these drinks make you pee away calcium, magnesium and zinc from your body.

Learning to CUSS

One of the things that really annoy me in my line of work is reading technical specification documents, real thick ones at that too and what's worse is that some of them are out of date but none of the technical support/sales staff would tell you that until you it out on your own.

My current ordeal is to go through a 300 page technical specification document (plus certification document) for a type of computer Kiosk used at the airports.

At least the abbreviation they used makes me giggle every time :)