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Continue reading →: Boss' 5th Birthday Party
On Saturday, I went to Boss’ 5th birthday party at Serra Park. The great weather brought out a number of people to this Sunnyvale park. I ran into some Palm people, including Trevor, his wife Julie and son Curtis, and Yannick and his family. Natasha, of course, was there to…
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Continue reading →: Fourth COBA Meeting
Workflow was the topic of discussion at this month’s Canon Owners of the Bay Area user group meeting, held for the first time at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center behind Stanford University. Thanks to Stuart Metcalfe for arranging the meeting location, which we’ll likely use for future COBA meetings. Before…
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Continue reading →: Solar Eclipses and Sophia
About 70% of the sun was covered by the moon in the early evening of June 10, 2002 in much of North America. Maximum coverage occurred at around 6:20 pm PST, which was still an hour and a half away from sunset this time of year. It would have been…
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Continue reading →: Christy's Birthday Party
On Sunday, June 9, 2002, it was Christy’s turn to become 27. To celebrate her birthday, Christy and her friends — Dave, Tim, Pam, Debbie, Benedict, NaSun, Brad, Winston, Ed, Sherry, Travis, Melissa, Tina, Winnie, Victor, Ryan, and Howard — convened in Cupertino for an Italian potluck dinner and dessert…
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Continue reading →: Cornrows
At Jon and Josh’s going away party on May 31, 2002, I was speaking with Natasha about changing my hairstyle, and she suggested getting some cornrows. I thought that was a great suggestion, and the two of us arranged my hair styling appointment for last night. Prior to her arrival,…
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Continue reading →: Month in Photojournalism
Click on the picture to the left to see a collage of the assignments that I handled during my month-long stint at a local Bay Area newspaper. In May, I photographed ex-Presidents, restaurants, numerous local K-12 schools, and real-estate properties. As I mentioned earlier, my experience at the paper was…
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Continue reading →: End of May
Today, I completed my month-long stint at the local newspaper. Overall it was a good experience. I learned quite a bit about the industry and was able to go on photoshoots that I normally would never have gone to. All good things must come to an end, however, and now…
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Continue reading →: Carver Mead
Carver Mead, Chairman of Foveon, spoke on The History and Future of Electronic Photography at the AMD Commons Building in Sunnyvale Tuesday evening. His talk covered the history of photography from Joseph Nicéphore Niepce’s heliograph to Foveon’s X3 sensor technology. It was very interesting to note how the underlying technology…
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Continue reading →: BBQ and Jazz in San Francisco
Two events headlined Saturday, May 18, 2002. The first was a BBQ held by the Sze sisters, Amabelle and Felicia, at Ocean Beach on the corner of Lincoln Way and the Pacific Coast Highway. The BBQ was followed by a wonderful musical performance by Jen Shyu and Art Hirahara at…
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Continue reading →: ARTSHIP: Geographies of Memory
On Friday evening, Randy and I went to see the ARTSHIP Foundation’s Geographies of Memory at the Port of Oakland on 10th Avenue. The ARTSHIP is the former U.S.S. Crescent City, a troop transport ship during WWII. In fact, it was originally launched as merchant ship Del Orleans before being…





