El Dorado Hills Plain Crash

An Airplane registered to Alexander Thomas crashed in between two homes in El Dorado Hills on Friday, April 17 at about 5:15 pm.

Mom's 60th Bday party

I was the official photographer ;) at my mom's 60th birthday party. There was a lot of people there all having a very good time. The music was a good mixture of Mexican dance and American classics which I love.

I put together a little slide show showing photos of my mom throughout her life from childhood to the present. A lot of the people really like it.

Here are a few of the photos I took during the night.

I just love the one of my mom and dad dancing.

Prop 8 rally

Today there was a Prop 8 rally which is about the legality of gay marriages in California. There were hundreds of people at the capitol and the event ended with a candlelight vigil. I would have loved to have shown a candle photo but.......my camera broke in the middle of the shoot. I have never had this happen and hope to get a replacement soon.

Amgen Bike Race

Thousands of people attended the trials portion of the Amgen tour of California in downtown Sacramento on Feb. 14, 2009. Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong was one of the 175 participants in the trials.

New Outlook

Well, I just started a new semester of photography and just finished my second month of my new job. A lot of new things in my life and I have had to tone down my life a bit. This toning down is allowing me to enjoy photography in a different light. I am actually enjoying it a little more in being able to learn new things about lighting techniques, styles, and ideas for photos. I will try to post whatever new photo I complete and hopefully this will keep me inspired.

Historic High

Well I know some of you may be tired of hearing or talking about it but we all HAVE just experienced a very historic moment in this country. I have seen something that I was not expecting to see in my lifetime and I am only in my 30's.

No matter, it has happened, a black man has been elected president of the United States and I think we should all really appreciate the moment and recognize how major this is.

I will remember and really value the experience because it has given me confidence that I can accomplish my dreams.

Thoughts

Hello Everyone,

Just back into the same old swing of things with being busy with school again. I was getting a little overwhelmed again for a few weeks but am finally starting to feel somewhat caught up.

I took the photo below the other day during a one hour feature photo shoot in my photojournalism class. I turned one in but kind of felt that the teacher did not like it so I went out with 20 minutes left and scrambled to find another one. I got back with about 5 minutes to edit and this is what I got. The teacher then mentioned that he was glad I did what I did and went out to find another one because he did not like the first one.

Let me know what you think....



City College students walk along campus while they recover from a recent rain storm that occured during the weekend and ran into Monday on Nov 3.