When hurricane Irene passed by Baltimore this past summer it was like partying with Axel Rose–pouring cats, dogs, and rats. To capture some of her gesture that I rig my camera with plastic bag wrapped with painter’s tape just to keep it dry. Though the 7D is weather resistant I didn’t want to take any chance with it. Other than that I had a blast.
All moments were captured with my sexy EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM.
Very simple story. One afternoon Chungwon and I met up with my sister, her hubby, and my nephew Vincent for lunch. The day before we ran out of toilet paper (from now it will be referred as “Rolled Paper”) so we bought a whole pack of it. After lunch Vincent was so eager to carry the Rolled Paper by himself. I took it out of the bag and let him have it–thus started the journey. All the other adults were embarrassed by the idea, but it just seemed like a fun fresh idea to publicly carry a Rolled Paper around the city.
We walked around all over Harbor East and Federal Hill with Rolled Paper, taking pictures at various points. Of course people stared at us, some whispered of “is that toilet paper?”, some stared longer than others, but it was just too much fun. Later we all got into the action and thought nothing of it.
Kids find pure happiness:) in simple things. We adults tends to complex and twist the idea of happiness where it becomes too rigid an unobtainable. We need to learn from our kids that sometimes all we need is a simple afternoon with Rolled Paper.
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All moments were captured with pimpin’ EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
I captured these moments around May this year during my lunch break around downtown Baltimore. I try to get out as much as I can with my camera, however lately it has been tough: work, freelance work, and being tired. Hopefully as work lighten up I will have more free time to chase after moments around the city.
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All moments were captured with pimpin’ EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
I have way too much photos on my laptop–5GB left. Disk space is very affordable these days. Perhaps I can just buy a HD and copy them over rather then the hassle of going through each file. However why keep unwanted files? As of this moment I have 14k+ files which occupies 54.4GB. Lets see how much I “really” need.
Fortuitously along the way I have been stumbling onto photos I forgot about. I actually enjoyed most of them. I will be posting some of the photos I find while cleaning.
Wet Park
Park Street on Baltimore. I love how lights stretches when it gets wet outside.
Man and Winter Urban Light
My friend Sang Han at Inner Harbor. The halo was created by a car that was parked for a split second. Right after the shot the car moved away, thus the moment.
All moments were captured with pimpin’ EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
When time permits I love to take my camera for walk around Baltimore. The city has so many hidden nooks and crannies, various angles and lightings I feel like a tourist every time. Sometimes I’m looking way up with my mouth wide open, looking way down as if I’m looking for a quarter, or simply looking straight like I have x-ray vision. No matter which way, I find the whole process of walking my camera very cathartic and adventurous. What better way enjoy time.
I noticed the city doesn’t reveal itself to oneself. Rather one have to reveal itself to the city–normality is not how it appears but how one assimilate the given data. Only then will the sublime creep out of the ordinary.
Below are photos captured in May. Whenever I see things I make up micro stories about them to entertain myself. It is somewhat loco, but then again I am walking my camera.
All moments were captured with pimpin’ EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
Last week I was about to drive a friend some where and saw this on the corner of Tyson and Monument Street. Something about it blew me away. (drum roll)
Moment captured with my pimpin’ EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
This is my co-worker Aaron Wilder. He and I were walking one lunch took a photograph of him and boom this is how it came out–such synchronicity.
Moments captured with my pimpin’ EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.
Concrete window shade.
When the sign rebels.
The fall of the sign.
