UCI Grad Commencement

6/6/09
Wow, this was a hard one! Thanks to Natasha for coming to help. Hers are all the images that start with IMG. I post-processed everything in Lightroom. Quite a learning experience and I'm glad I did it.

Small Disneyland Fireworks

6/23/09
Small snippet of the fireworks show in HD B)

Sparkling Balloons

6/23/09
Sparkling balloons, part of the Summer Nightastic promotion.

Dana at Disneyland

6/23/09
You look sillier when you're trying not to be on camera, then if you WERE on camera. Smile everyone :)

Disneyland w/ Family

6/23/09
Lots of time spent in line.

Used the 50mm the whole day. So hard. Shooting wide open=bad idea.

Torie's Graduation

6/12/09
My sister's graduation from high school. Now she's moving on to the next Big Bad: college.

Taken mostly with my 70-300 zoom lens...like binoculars!!! But it was kind of a slow lens. And a lot of my pictures came out dark. Learning experience.

We ate dinner at Tokyo Wako.

Pictures of me are probably by Dana. And also pictures 34-41. And 221-237 are by my uncle.

Special cameos by: Dora and Dante!!!!

Yin's 20th Birthday Party

Wearing the scalp of the enemy in celebration.

6/19/09
Yin's birthday party at Live Oak Park. In attendance: Mike, Alvin, Huan, Dante, Dora, Angela, Yin, Natasha, and me. And Kung Fu Pinata.

Captions as always.

For extra fun, make sure you check out Yin's expressions in the background of every photo.

Main Street, U.S.A. at Night

5/30/09 (technically 5/31/09)
It's Main Street at night! Like a classy Las Vegas.

it's a small world

5/30/09
A small piece of it's a small world. Yay! We were on one of the last boats and as we came out the clock struck 12 AM.

Fanny's First Flight

5/30/09
Yay Dumbo!!! Surprisingly short wait and HELLO MAGIC NUMBER TWO!!!!

I sound like a mommy in this video. "You can do it, honey!" :P

Fanny's First Steps

5/30/09
Fanny takes her first steps ever inside Disneyland! I document this momentous occasion.

I don't know why I said "We shall see..."

Little Robot, Big Scary World: Episode 1

6/9/09
Cheap Shot on Something Awful made a Choose Your Own Adventure Thread about BIP, a little robot. The thread is called "Little Robot, Big Scary World." Then Alea Minerva made an audiocast out of it. I wanted to combine the wonderful pictures of Cheap Shot with the wonderful sound of Alea Minerva and came up with this. At 3 AM. No final tomorrow for me, I guess!

Here's the link to the thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3145321&pagenumber=1

Here's the link to the original audio file: http://tindeck.com/listen/epqd

I used some of my photos because I didn't know what to do for the introduction. Also, my program Ulead is pretty stupid. Wouldn't let me fade in the beginning.

EX-I-09 Family Day

4/18/09
Some more exhibits at Family Day at the Beall Center, focusing this time on saving the ecosystem.

Disneyland w/ Fanny

5/29/09
My worst picture-taking day at Disneyland, but alternatively one of my most fun trips! It was Fanny's birthday and she got a pin and everything and so many people said "Happy Birthday" to her. Even that cute guy manning Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (you know who I'm talkin' 'bout, Fanny *wink wink*).