Black Swan Is in Theater This Friday

Chinchih has been waiting for it for a long time. Finally it's in theater this Friday. Also, congratulate on her to be the 10000th clicker in this blog. She will get a surprise gift from me.

All About Love

Hard to believe the last time I saw Vivian Chow in movies it was almost 20 years ago. How she had aged! (Her "come-back" would definitely break the hearts of many fans.) Strangely, Sandra Ng now looks much better than 20 years ago (remember her in "洪興十三妹"?) and has proved to be an excellent actress ever since. Still, it will be an interesting movie to see, even just for nostalgia's sake.

The interview by SS Chang about the movie is also interesting:

Sunset at Point Lobos

I planned to go out shooting on Thanksgiving, but changed my mind. The day after Thanksgiving turned out to be an extremely popular day for Point Lobos. When I was taking photos, I could even see the flash from someone's point-and-shoot camera. Pretty crazy.

Ginkgo Tree in a Church Yard

  Spotted this Ginkgo tree while driving.

Mitty at Home

Cats are wonderful models with personalities of Hollywood movie stars. Like stars, they always know how to make an impression.

Japanese Maple After Rain

Though it rained most of the day, the sun showed up once a while. When that happened, the light was warm and dramatic (yet soft enough to bring out all the colors). It would be a perfect day to go out and take photos, if only I had the rain gears prepared. Instead, the lazy me just took a walk around the neighborhood. For now, I just had to make do with the Japanese maple in my neighbor's backyard.

P.S. my lovely Zeiss 50mm really brings out those beautiful colors of the maple.

Dry Plants on Highway 1

Going Home

What an amazing weekend! The weather was perfect and I witnessed two incredible sunsets. Sometimes I questioned my decision to choose photography as a hobby. (Not only it is expensive, it is time consuming too. I could hardly do anything else in the weekends.) In moments like this, all is forgiven.    

A Bridge Too Far

Sunset Variations

The End of Fall

Notes to myself: I should use a polarizer.

Submarine Rock

Playing with Big Stopper

Big Stopper is a lot of fun. Notice the color shifted to the cold side. I had to compensate it by setting the white balance to extremely warm. Things look so different in long exposure. In the 6 minute exposure below, the cloud seems to be moving fast while the water stays still. It's actually very relaxed to take long-exposure photos. After setting the timer, I just walked around and enjoyed the scene. Sometimes I even forgot I was photographing.

Got My Domain Back!!!

I was experimenting with different hosting service providers and it somehow screwed up my domain name setting. I couldn't access my own domain any more. At first I thought it was due to the 24 hour dns sync time, but after 24 hours, things still didn't improve so I finally wrote an email to the tech support. After some tuning, I finally got my domain back. Yeah!!!!! 

Granite Point (from Last Week)

Not a good shot to use the big stopper (this is a crazy 6-min exposure), but I finally got the proof that the "leaking light" issue was caused by my misuse of the filter holder. After switching the screw-on to the other side if the holder, the problem was resolved. Now I can hardly wait to go back and try my other ideas.

P.S. the 24mm is incredibly sharp. I love it more and more.