68/365 - 10, 9, 8...

sixty eight // three six five

12 31 2008
where am i? behind the camera, of course!
happy new year!

67/365 - a box o' wha?

sixty seven // three six five
12 30 2008
large and in charge. i was the designated sommelier for the new year's eve bash at my friend's apt so in addition to purchasing the requisite reds & whites -- i decided to throw something new into the mix.

yellow+blue = GREEN! www.ybwines.com this company wants everyone to enjoy wines but also wants to be environmentally friendly. the result, wine that's sold in recyclable boxes and minimizes the carbon footprint tremendously when transporting the wine.

anyway, hope everyone enjoys it tomorrow!

66/365 - the tree

sixty six // three six five
12 29 2008

65/365 - my boys

sixty five // three six five

12 28 2008

64/365 - WWF

sixty four // three six five
12 27 2008
wine + wii + friends = loud craziness

63/365 - tourists

sixty three // three six five

12 26 2008
need to upload the photos from this past week over the coming days.. holidays mean a lot of time in the car, a lot of time eating, a lot of time wrapping & unwrapping, but more importantly, a lot of time with family.

62/365 - ready, set, UNWRAP!

sixty two // three six five
12 25 2008
when you have three little ones running around screaming.."when are uncle korman and auntie shan going to wake up", followed by madeleine yelling "uncle korman is nocturnal, what if he doesn't wake up until 12:30p???" -- it makes you... wake up.

and - why does a 2nd grader know the word nocturnal ? what does that even mean.. jk

61/365 - 'twas the night

sixty one // three six five

12 24 2008
'twas the night before christmas, when all through the house
nothing was stirring, not even a wooden christmas tree.

60/365 - reflections of a tree(s)..

sixty // three six five

12 23 2008

59/365 - superstar!

fifty nine // three six five

12 22 2008

58/365 - fancy shmancy

fifty eight // three six five

12 21 2008
i needs me some pink champagne truffles!

57/365 - thumbs up!

fifty seven // three six five

12 20 2008

56/365 - witness protection

fifty six // three six five

12 19 2008

due to the public nature of this blog, identities have been protected...

55 /365 - J-E-T-S

fifty five // three six five

12 18 2008

54/365 - baseball & subway

fifty four // three six five

12 17 2008

53/365 - white stuff

fifty three // three six five

12 16 2008

... and thats not dandruff 'round the sneakers either!

52/365 - all about the chicks

fifty two // three six five
12 15 2008
i'm the middle man. gift from joyce to aidan wong. i must deliver the goods.
and its always about the chicks.

51/365 - safety first...

fifty one // three six five
12 14 2008
instead of shooting once again off the dashboard of my car with the vehicle still in motion, i opted for a safer way to shoot.. squatting behind the car. dont expect many more from me like this, i looked kind of silly on the street.

50/365 - hair-raising 5-0

fifty // three six five

12 13 2008
kids & balloons just cling together.
what up ellie!

on a side note, happy 5-0 blog!

49/365 - speech

forty nine // three six five

12 12 2008

helen's 30th bday dinner

48/365 - B for 2005 Bordeaux?

forty eight // three six five
12 11 2008

i'll be a very happy man in 15-30+ years when these bad boys will be ready to be uncorked. if you're reading this, you better hope to still be my friend then...
pause, lets out evil sinister laugh!

47/365 - vroom...

forty seven // three six five

12 10 2008

was amused when i saw this in the paper today..

46/365 - bright lights

forty six // three six five

12 09 2008

no matter where you are during the holiday season, you're bound to see xmas decorations. even random trees in a random parking lot of a random apt complex...

45/365 - love

forty five // three six five
12 08 2008
do you see the heart?

44/365 - sunday afternoon drive

forty four // three six five

12 07 2007

driving to work on sunday afternoon.. and spotted this while on the bqe. shot dangerously w/ my phone while driving.. kids do not try this at home.

43/365 - red

forty three // three six five

12 06 2008

it was snowing for the first time here and i was actually trying to capture the snow in the background, but the phone wasnt able to pick it up. oh well..

42/365 - failed

forty two // three six five

12 05 2008

41/365 - photo of photos

forty one // three six five

i've had this shot in mind for the entire week but i wanted to capture it with my 'real' camera. so finally at the end of the week, i toted along the big guns.

after you walk down the stairs to the bowling green station -- you're immediately greeted by a series of photographs on the right, titled "the essence of time". very nice photos indeed.

if you happen to be in nyc and at bowling green, keep an eye out for my photo here. i think its a good idea to print out my photo and tape it underneath one of the big ones, autographed & dated.. of course.

40/365 - kickin' it old school

forty // three six five

12 03 2008
another one shot w/ my iphone & photoshop edits but this time with the help of a bit of old school polaroid flare! please do click on the photo to view it in larger size, the details on the polaroid border are pretty cool!

found this fun, free program that converts your jpegs into polaroid-esque shots. check it out here
sorry PC, this is only for MACs

39/365 - four liberty

thirty nine // three six five

12 02 2008

a stone's throw from my office is the statue of liberty. its always nice to swing by the park before or after work. too bad i didnt have my canon with me, but if you look closely inside the number -- you may see lady liberty.

38/365 - red & green

thirty eight // three six five
12 01 2008
in the holiday spirit for december 1st, i took a photo of something red&green.

believe it or not, this was taken w/ my 2mp iphone. what a difference a bit of photoshop makes, right? (photoshopped for the 'lomo effect')
to view the original, click here. comments on which photo you prefer are appreciated. =)

37/365 - street cred

thirty seven // three six five

11 30 2008
admit it, we've all done it before. sure its unsafe to adjust aperture & shutter speed while in a moving vehicle, but thats why they invented dummy settings on cameras. for dummies that want to drive and shoot at the same time!

36/365 - stuck pt ii

thirty six // three six five
11 29 2008

a day of shopping and some more shopping...

35/365 - stuck

thirty five // three six five
11 28 2008
having taken a quick detour to the Gershwin theater after work to see
if I could score some tickets for Wicked on Jan 1st, I tried to weave
my way through the tsunami of wide-eyed eager tourists. stuck is how I
find myself.

tourists:1 me:0

34/365 - bird is the word

thirty four // three six five
11 27 2008
kaden carefully assessing the thanksgiving menu. it may look like it, but no he's not wielding that knife.

33/365 - beer & chicken

thirty three // three six five
11 26 2008

what started as an evening of wine shopping (to fill up my depleted collection), beer & fried chicken turned into an evening w/ shots of weird korean raspberry wine, a celebration of the freshly released 2008 beaujolais nouveau, rocky IV and wii golf. somewhere in between, i managed to get drunk and had to be convinced by kelvin not to attempt to walk, read stumble, home while carrying two bags of cali cabs. thx kel, cause thats a friggin long walk of shame home.

read all about the beaujolais nouveaus festivities here. according to the crazy frenchman, its a huge deal in france and reason for all the college kids to get drunk.

32/365 - time to be schooled.

thirty two // three six five

11 25 2008
just not feeling it with my shots lately. the raw images i've been processing contain lots of noise. perhaps its the ISO setting i'm using or i'm just not sharpening the raw files enough. either way, its time to get home-schooled. hopefully the images to come will be better. =/

*as an update, those earrings were probably real since the seller wants me to mail them back. the seller, of course, is quite grateful and i've been quite lazy in dragging myself to the post office. but soon, very soon.

31/365 - fill-up, please.

thirty one // three six five

11 24 2008
as you can see.. the stockpile is getting low. its time to refuel. a wine rack with lots of gaps makes for an unhappy dude.

30/365 - 4x6

thirty // three six five
11 23 2008
celebrating fourth & sixth bdays w/ matthew and abigail!

29/365 - cheese it

twenty nine // three six five

11 22 2008

who is not having a cheese fondue night?

28/365 - dusting off

twenty eight // three six five
11 21 2008

after a two year hiatus, its time to dust off the tools of the trade!

27/365 - free shipping? great! free diamonds? EERRRHH?!?

twenty seven // three six five

11 20 2008

so in my effort to amass an arsenal of lenses, affordably.. i've taken to eBay as my camera market. purchasing used lenses is a great way of, well.. keeping more coin in the wallet.

i picked up this great sigma 30mm f/1.4 a few weeks ago in immaculate condition with original box, case, manuals etc for a great price + free shipping, ok? as it turns out.. i got a bit more as well.

i was inspecting the soft case and realized the cushion on the bottom is actually removable (didnt know that before) i take it out and something falls onto my desk. i take a closer look at what appears to be a pair of gold earnings with

14 tiny little diamonds on each. free shipping + a pair of diamond gold earrings?

you'll be happy to know that i'll be emailing the seller to notify her of my discovery.. ill keep you posted.

26/365 - brains of the operation

twenty six // three six five
11 19 2008
let's take a moment to meet the guys responsible for this blog. this behind the scenes crew is really the brains behind the whole operation and deserve all the credit for the awards and accolades. without them, this blog would merely be a collection of blurry obscure images (like the post from two days ago).

without further ado, let's meet the band! -- on the drums we have the canon 17-85mm IS f/4, on the bass is the sigma 10-20mm f/4 (borrowed from ivor!), on the guitar we have the sigma 30mm f/1.4 and at lead vocals the canon 30D.

25/365 - mah nem is jems

twenty five // three six five
11 18 2008
plus two, lebron.

24/365- aqua

twenty four // three six five

11 17 2008

having run out of water on the hike back toward the top of the grand canyon, it was only appropriate that kel and i both purchase commemorative grand canyon aluminum water bottles (imitation sigg bottles, call it what you will). i now carry that wherever i go.

on the subway? no water well? no worries! you have your aluminum water bottle. for some reason, my coworker cracks up whenever i take it out.. i guess its cause i've since forgone using paper cups (i'm so green) and was totin' this around all day. so i whip it out to drink on the subway and again she cracks up.. so i have her take a photo w/ my phone.

23/365 - back at my desk...

twenty three // three six five
11 16 2008
officially back from vacation, its time to get to work... on my photos! i was at my desk editing photos throughout most of the day aside from a brief jaunt to the mall.

didn't shoot at all today so decided nothing would be more fitting for my photo-du-jour than a shot of me touching up what could be my favorite shot of the trip (minus the me of course, as i was behind the camera).

here's the album of our hike:

grand canyon hike

22/365 - back to reality

twenty two // three six five
11 15 2008
just touched down at LaGuardia. a day lost. but I did happen to wake
up from my nap to spot this nice sky out my window.

certainly not a GC sunset, but not too shabby from 36,000 ft up.