I haven't had much chance to take photos lately, but I did try to do a couple of photowalks this week during my lunchbreaks from work. Unfortunately, San Carlos and Belmont are both dull towns for photography during the work week, so I must say "I went out photographing, and all I got was this flower shot."

My fulfillment with these photowalks is to simply practice and review my unedited photos. Being stuck in Silicon Valley all day is a challenge, and one day, I hope to make something interesting out of nothing.

There is a Union Cemetary deep in Redwood City that I've been meaning to go to, but it's just a bit of a far drive for me to take during a 1-hour break. I'm not sure what I can do with cemetary photography, and I'm too scared to look up photos tonight because it's midnight and I'm not in the mood to read anything related to the dead.

I haven't had much chance to take photos lately, but I did try to do a couple of photowalks this week during my lunchbreaks from work. Unfortunately, San Carlos and Belmont are both dull towns for photography during the work week, so I must say "I went out photographing, and all I got was this flower shot."

My fulfillment with these photowalks is to simply practice and review my unedited photos. Being stuck in Silicon Valley all day is a challenge, and one day, I hope to make something interesting out of nothing.

There is a Union Cemetary deep in Redwood City that I've been meaning to go to, but it's just a bit of a far drive for me to take during a 1-hour break. I'm not sure what I can do with cemetary photography, and I'm too scared to look up photos tonight because it's midnight and I'm not in the mood to read anything related to the dead.

It was a daylong workshop which consisted of 4 hours of compressed tips and advice on ISO, shutter speeds, f-stops, light metering and compositions. Then 2 hours of a photo safari which I didn't join because I had a last minute rendezvous with my kids who were hanging out in the city with their dad.

It was a good workshop, I think, as there were many who were from all levels of photography. I picked up new tips and it was refreshing to hear a lot of what I already knew from a professional photographer. If anything, to be reassured of technical bits I've learned from practice, my own reading and my husband, was well worth my time.

Now the only challenge is: to take better photos.

I would like to take another workshop that talks about lighting: both natural/outdoors and artificial/indoors. I use a slave flash that works well for what I need to do, but I would like to learn more about it in a workshop setting.

Oh, and that rendezvous with my kids resulted in me being the only parent paparazzi at the playground, snapping away at my own kids (not the others). Here are a couple of the ones I like:

It was a daylong workshop which consisted of 4 hours of compressed tips and advice on ISO, shutter speeds, f-stops, light metering and compositions. Then 2 hours of a photo safari which I didn't join because I had a last minute rendezvous with my kids who were hanging out in the city with their dad.

It was a good workshop, I think, as there were many who were from all levels of photography. I picked up new tips and it was refreshing to hear a lot of what I already knew from a professional photographer. If anything, to be reassured of technical bits I've learned from practice, my own reading and my husband, was well worth my time.

Now the only challenge is: to take better photos.

I would like to take another workshop that talks about lighting: both natural/outdoors and artificial/indoors. I use a slave flash that works well for what I need to do, but I would like to learn more about it in a workshop setting.

Oh, and that rendezvous with my kids resulted in me being the only parent paparazzi at the playground, snapping away at my own kids (not the others). Here are a couple of the ones I like:

This is the second wedding we have done any work for. I'd like to do more! PanFocus Studios is offering special rates for weddings and other significant family events. There is no deadline for these rates since we need more work in this field to build up the portfolio.