Today, it was a warm and sunny day in Southern California. You wouldn't guess at all that just last week, it was raining cats and dogs around here. So much so, that there were flooded streets everywhere. My favorite was when the street that my children's school was on, looked like a river! Check it out... Nope. That's not a river's shore. ...continue reading
Lunar New Year / Tet Festival
This Saturday is the Lunar New Year. For Vietnamese people, like my husband, it is the start of the Tet Festival. According to VietnamOnline.com: "Tet Nguyen Dan, or Tet for short, is considered the biggest and most popular festival of the year in Vietnam. Celebrated on the first day of the first month in Lunar Calendar, Tet’s celebration is the ...continue reading
Graceful, Little Spider
I almost didn't notice him hanging there, under the playstructure arch. He was so tiny and almost transparent, that aside from his web which gave him away, he was almost invisible. As I zoomed in as much as I could, for he was ever so tiny, I could tell, he was delicate and, as most spiders were, graceful. I was hesitant to breathe, being very ...continue reading
Bokeh For Ambience
Sometime around last Christmas, I was playing around with my DSLR camera. I was changing different settings to see what they did to the resulting shots. Quite by accident, I discovered how to change the camera's focus from the center to the side! This was the secret I've been looking for because it created a nice bokeh effect in the background. And ...continue reading
Same Purpose, New (Photography) Direction
We are now five days into the New Year. I specifically didn't make any resolutions because I was too afraid to fail. I figured that I would just try and be better at whatever I was doing at the moment, every single time. One of the things I would like to get better at, is blogging regularly again. If you don't know yet, I have 3 blogs: a Mom Blog, ...continue reading