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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Honorable Mention!

Sweet. My photo was awarded “Honorable Mention” for Boston Globe’s monthly photography contest. This is the first time I placed in a public photography contest. As a prize they gave me a $15 coupon for some pizza place near Boston but – meh, I probably won’t be able to go, so I said “no, thank [...]

Buy Something “New”

Probably should’ve posted this before people get their Christmas goodies – oh well. As photographers, it seems like we have an endless number of equipment upgrades to make to take better photos. New cameras, new lenses, improved high-ISO capabilities, more megapixels, increased sharpness  - boy, Canon, Nikon, and those companies couldn’t do better. But don’t get [...]

To Want To Be Successful is Not Enough

To want. To be ambitious. To want to be successful is not enough. That’s just desire… Wise words from Kevin Spacey. Every teenager should watch this.

Lighting the Dungeon – Shooting Basketball

Take a sneak peak into my “usual work”. Photo-shoots with friends are fun, but can’t do those all day – gotta sustain my equipment somehow. I’m a full-time student, but I also make money through sports and event photography on the side. I got a job in Japan during winter break through a photog-friend of [...]

Casey, Part 2

The other day after doing another one of Casey’s shoots, I realized that photo-shoots are the most exhausting things ever. Needless to say, I love doing them! – but every time I finish a shoot, I just feel like all of of my energy has been sucked out of me and my brain is toast. [...]

My First Print!

I finally did it! My first large print. It’s a 20″x30″ print of a photo I took at the beach in the summer. Totally love it.