Taking picture with my cell phone at the beach was how I first started to get into photography. Lately, though, I haven’t been quite as inspired by beach shoots. Mind you: I still enjoy going to the beach: I just don’t enjoy photography at the beach as much as I did in the past. I…
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Film is not dead
No long blog post here: I love it when I spot photographers who shoot with film and wanted to share a snapshot of this vintage Yashica-D. I definitely do think that invention of digital photography has lead people to be lazier with their shots and rely too heavily on photo editing to get a decent…
Portraiture Venture
I need to give a shout out to Instagram for being able to be such a successful social media platform for photo sharing. Yesterday I went to a “world wide instameet” in Newport Beach and was able to connect with 100 or so local hobby photographers. (Note my handle @calimanders for more pics) There were…
Santorini Sunrises
It’s Throwback Thursday! Here is one of my favorite “throwbacks” to a sunrise from my visit to Santorni last month. While I am up for sunrise occasionally, I rarely photograph it because coastal sunrises near me are usually not that noteworthy. Sunrises in Santorini are definitely worth waking up for though: even if you only had…
An affair with Canon
Canon hosted an event at the Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch in San Diego this weekend. They offered a free photography class and also loaned out their lenses for free, which was awesome…except for the fact that I have a Sony camera (Yes, I am going to be that person who brings a Sony to…
And it’s Spring
Part of the perks of living in Southern California is the amazing weather : it’s essentially “summer all year long”. However this perk can also be a pitfall on the occasion you wish for real seasons. Case in point: when early Spring hit this year, a few of my photography friends hopped in our cars…
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