I'm moving..

I'm moving my blog to my own website.
http://www.sigaw2000.com/sigaw2000/Blog/Blog.html

Yokota Trip

Click on the photo for the series or click here.

Father's Day 2009

Click on the photo for the series or click here. Happy Father's Day!

Sakura - 2009

This is long over due. Anyway, click on the photo for the series. Or click here. Enjoy.

Verny Park

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Tokyo Trip 2009

Day 1 (New Sanno and Hiro-o)
Day 2 (Ueno Park and DisneySea)
Day 3 (Tokyo Tower)
Day 4 (Ueno Zoo and National Science Museum)

Daibutsu in Kamakura

Best video I've seen...

This is a great video from Atlanta-based photographer Zack Arias. Worth watching over and over.

Winter is just around the corner..

Full Moon

We have a full moon tonight. I first noticed it on my way to pick up my kid from the Youth Center around 4:30ish. I saw the huge moon just starting it's way across the sky. It has a reddish hue and it is big! Ok, not that big but big enough for me to take a photo of it. I tried to remember our lesson on how to take a shot of the moon. This is all I can get from a 200mm telephoto lens. Enhanced the contrast a bit, cropped and converted in B&W. Wish I have a 600mm zoom! THAT would be cool..

Miura-Kaigan

Eric goes Full Frame

My Family

What can I say, I love my crazy family!

Kid's Night

Last night we held our annual Kid's Night event.

Yeah!

My mojo is back! Just attended a photography class in the Philippines and everything that I've read and self-learned in photography just got tied-in together. Everything just got clear and I've got to know my camera better, what the menus are about and which settings to use for a particular shot. My instructor also taught us to pause and look for our shots. Use the technology that we have in our hands to our advantage. Because of that, I no longer take 500 pictures of an event, but instead, I actually started to observe the event. See the people's faces and choose my shots. I guess I have to start taking better pictures from now on or my instructor will kill me :)

Above right is a group shot of our class with our instructor, Jun Miranda.He's the guy on the left side. If you click on the photo, it will take you to a compilation of our photo shoot during the duration of the three-day class. And for those of you who are, should I say, directionally challenged, you can also click here. And you know who you are.. DANNY! lol:)

BTW, the company is called PCCI and they offer classes in photography and graphics. They are the only Adobe certified facility in the Philippines and their instructors are one of best in their own field in the Philippines. I really wanted to take up Adobe InDesign CS3 class but unfortunately the class schedule is right on the day we're heading back here in Japan. But I'll definitely time our next vacation to coincide with the InDesign class. Maybe a class in portraiture, too. Check out their site here.

I have a lot of photos from our vacation but most of them are photos of my family and relatives. All because of this post from a music photographer from Atlanta named Zack Arias. That post is beauuutiful. One of the reasons why I want to focus on portraiture.

Anyway, just want to let you guys know that I'm back and expect more posts. Have a good day to everybody! :-)

Nani?

Mesmerized

Knocked Down

After a long day of playing and running around.

Nikon D700

This.. is.. sweeeet! AAAAAHHHHHHHH! :-D

Oh, I forgot..

it's also Student's Appreciation Day. we gave the kids a letter of appreciation for their hard work during the school year 2007 - 2008.