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My 2008-About my pictures (Part 2)

March/2008 and April/2008

 

Blank.

These two months had been too busy I guess. I couldn’t find any pictures in my pool. I felt so sorry about this.

May/2008     Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

I went back to Canada for my Master convocation. And we drove to Jasper for a short vacation as well. I took this picture besides a highway in Jasper national park, Alberta, Canada. This beautiful lake forced me to make a dangerous U-turn on highway. Fortunately, I was not caught by a police. 

Three goats are eating grass along a river in Jasper national park, AB. Beautiful landscape view, rivers, mountains, clouds, grass, and goats. If I stay there for longer, I could produce better photos.

This is one of my favorite photos in my pool. I captured this little lovely naughty when we were having breakfast. He seemed to be very interesting in my biscuit, nuts, and milk. 

 

This Barn Swallow was captured in Columbia Icefield in Jasper, AB. I was wearing a sweater and coat when I got off my car. It was June! I didn’t expect this bird when I was walking. I even didn’t have 55-200 mm mounted on my camera. I suddenly decided to change the lens on, and took some photos for this beautiful creature.

 

June/2008    West Lafayette, IN, USA                  “Mourned for Victims in Wen Chuan Earthquake”.

 

PUCSSA here organized a gathering to express our condolences for people who died in this disaster. This boy in this picture is from Sichuan, China, which is the epicenter of this earthquake. His family was greatly affected by the disaster. He shared a story of his family with us while the piano was playing a song named "A Heart for China" as the background. Most people cried.

 

 

More than 80 people came to this gathering which was held in University Church. A video showed a victim, an elementary school girl. Her life was taken away when she was studying in the classroom.

 

 

July/2008     Independence Day (July 4th), West Lafayette, IN, USA

 

I found it is extremely hard to take pictures of firework with a camera that doesn’t have a LCD viewer. I really admire those who used film cameras but still got great firework photos. I do not have a remote, but I do have a tripod. 95% of my shots all failed.

 

Another fireworks

August/2008         Indy air show, McCordsville, IN, USA

 

This picture is from annual Indy air show of 2008, in Mt Comfort Airport, McCordsville, IN. The first time I ever shot a flying plane, and saw a real F-16, F/A-18, and F-22. However, they are too far and too fast to reach with respect to my 55-200 mm. However, I captured this photo below. It is a part of the show performance. If you read it carefully, you will see a performer hanging out of this small plane. Yes, a real flying plane. They call it the “Wing walker”. I like this picture because it gives me nice color and propeller movement. And I saw this color only when the sun is not blocked by dense cloud.

 

 

This photo captures the opening ceremony of this show. The National Anthem of USA is broadcasted on air and accompanied by a falling parachute in the air.

 

 

September/2008    Lake Michigan, MI, USA

 

This seagull is caught in Lake Michigan. I won’t say much about it. I just like seagull.

 

 

Li Ji: Again, she’d like to have some memory for Lake Michigan. So I gave her a series of photos which capture the beauty of Lake Michigan and herself.

 

 

October/2008   Rockville, IN, USA

 

The trip is held by PUCSSA, sponsored by local billionaire. She owned the house, the lake, the mountain, and fast boats. The photo shows the Raccoon Lake in the dusk. I knew this would be a good photo before I took it. Falling sun, waving leaves, fast-moving boat, and nice reflections. Can you ask for more?

 

 

Culver, IN, USA

 

Douglas treated us for this trip to celebrate the birthday of his girlfriend (Thank you Doug!). It is taken at about 7:30 am in the morning. I am not used to get up this early. Finally I got paid for this time. I walked on the warm beach, felt the morning breath, watched the lake view, and bathed under fresh sunshine. 

 

 

Beach of Culver Hotel

 

The hotel and beach is an important part of this small county. A private academic high school is the main part of it. Every year during convocation time, parents will drop by and live in this hotel for about a week. I was told that most parents are driving Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Jaguar or something like those.

 

 

Li Ji: In front of a local church. She’d like to be cool, so I gave her a “cool”.

 

 

She’d like to be beautiful and “girl” this time.

 

 

Paul Chen: A friend from ECE of our school. We invited him as our model. And of course he agreed.

 

 

Some girls like this photo the most. They said he looks like Bae Yong Joon, a Korean TV star.

 

 

November   Brown County, Bloomington, IN, USA

 

 

It is a piece of photo to memorize the past autumn. I didn’t take any good pictures during this trip. I feel sorry about this, not only because of weather, but also mood.

 

 

December    Happy Hollow Park, West Lafayette, IN, USA

 

A tree without any leaves sitting under a bright white sky. I can see the dried texture of the skin very clearly, which gives me a piece of sadness. Maybe this is exactly what WINTER means.

 

 

My 2008-About my pictures… (part 1)

My 2008—Use D70 as F70

 

I have been using a Nikon D70 since last May, which is my first DSLR. I inherited it from my father when he decided to go with D200. I have to say it is a great camera. I love it. However, the thing that I don’t like the most is its performance at high ISO’s: higher than 800, the pictures taken are not acceptable. Other than this, it is totally fine.

I am not rich, which means I don’t have much dollars to buy super lenses. I only have three “dog lenses” in total: 24-120 mm/f3.5-5.6 lens, an old heavy lens from Nikon F70; 50 mm/f1.8 standard lens, I bought from B&H during my trip to New York; 55-200 mm/f4-5.6 VR. That’s all, no fancy. I am planning to get a 70-200 mm/f2.8 though, from either Sigma or Nikon, only when I have spare money.

Sometime last year, must be after the summer break, the LCD viewer is broken. But the camera is still fine. I don’t know why this happened. I knew that was not my fault, but I still felt happy that my dad didn’t accuse on this. I tried to contact Nikon for a replacement; however, they charged me over $200 bucks for part and labor because the warranty has expired. So I decided not to fix it. Therefore, I could not be able to do any adjustment to camera settings; also, the digital camera doesn’t give me an instant view of the pictures I took. Haha, this is really interesting because I am using a D70 as a film F70. I have to metering very carefully, adjust the aperture, think about everything before shutter, and sometimes take as many pictures as possible for one scene. However, this gave me a good “training” though: It gave me a chance to use the techniques I read from books; I forced myself to guess what the final photo should look like before taking. 

When I got this camera, I was very interested in flying birds, insects, and all kinds of animals. The main reason of why I buy 55-200 mm VR is to catch flying stuffs. Some of them are not caught in 2008, but I still like them quite much.

Animals

A dragonfly stands on the tip of a flower. It seems that it is pretty comfortable to be like this. To me, I feel also satisfied because I captured this moment up.

 

 

A butterfly stands on a rock. I sort of envy my friend who has a 300 mm/f4 macro lens. He could capture this very easily. But that’s fine; I enjoyed my 55-200 mm too.

 

 

Head of a seagull. Captured in Hawrelak park, Edmonton, AB. 55-200 mm VR is a relative cheap lens, however, it gives me very sharp photos.

 

 

A flying seagull, took in Drumheller, AB. It is my first successful capture of a flying object using this lens. Feels easy, comfortable, it focuses very fast, though it is not as fast as Cannon’s.

 

 

I don’t know why I took a many pictures of seagull. Maybe it is the most popular creature in Edmonton. As I said, 55-200 VR gives me very sharp images, you can see it hah.

 

 

 

A duck stands on a plastic tube in Hawrelak park, Edmonton, AB.

 

 

 

Another duck in water. I like this background. The water looks like a cloth.

 

 

A squirrel capture on a tree. He is busy with eating lunch; my friends and I are busy with taking pictures of him. I was really thinking of a SB-600 when I found the camera built-in flash was not power enough.

 

 

Flowers

 

I was told that only macro lenses are good at capturing flowers. However, I still tried to use 55-200 mm to do this task. It seems working, right?

 

 

Another flower photo with 55-200 mm. Unknown name…

 

 

Besides animals and flowers, I would like to take some pictures about humankinds of course, especially celebrities.

 

A famous singer-Wei Jin Dong

 

 

Famous talk show performer: Jiang Kun and Dai Zhi Cheng.

 

 

 

I came to the States at the beginning of this year. Study and work is much busier than before. I started to find that it is very hard for me to squeeze time to takes photos. It makes awkward to write this article. It seems that I don’t have many photos taken in 2008. But I will try to at least fill every month. Well, let me go straight to the point now.

 

December/2007 and January/2008    Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

I went to Vancouver, BC for Christmas break with my girlfriend. Vancouver is a great place to live, as well as for visitors. It is very clean (except Chinatown), peaceful (at least during Christmas), easy (small population with slow paces), and beautiful (oceans, gulf, and mountains. How can it be not beautiful?). But it seems that it has a serious problem in drug-dealing. In some regions, all public phones are removed because many drug dealers were using public phones to communicate, which made police extremely difficult to track down.

 

I captured this raccoon in world famous Stanley park, Vancouver, BC. It was the first time that I saw a raccoon; I thought it was a kind of Bobcat until friends told me it’s a raccoon. He got his left front leg broken when I saw him. He felt so helpless. Let’s make believe that he have healed up.

 

 

This is taken in a local decoration store. A great place for girls. I took some pictures when my girlfriend is searching for girls things. I like this various colors with gradually changes from one to another. I finally feel that it is a place not only for girls, but also for me.

 

 

In front of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Sun Zhong Shan) garden in Chinatown, Vancouver, BC. This is a typical Chinese style: lion status, Chinese Kung Fu, etc.

 

 

February/2008    West Lafayette, IN, USA

 

It’s my first month in the States. It happened to have a spring festival show of my school. I am asked to take some pictures for it.

 

 

Gu Zhen Solo. It is a typical Chinese instrument. 21 strings, many touching songs were made out of it.

 

 

Two young girls are singing Chinese traditional Opera: Huang Mei Xi. It origins locally but now becomes nationally. The costumes girls worn are cheong-sam (Qi Pao). The most famous traditional costume in China.  

 

山寨版CCAV年度经济人物评选之十大“商恶”(ZT)

这两天老是看到有人讨论温州施粥摊，讨论民善，商善，还有什么官善，实在太搞了！！
　　
　　中国有商善吗？我只看到赤裸裸的商恶——CCAV年度经济人物评选（山寨版）之十大商恶——
　　
　　1、三鹿集团原董事长总经理田文华 
　　入选理由：成功在中国普及了三戮氰胺这个专业化学名词。
　　
　　2、蒙牛集团董事长牛根生 
　　入选理由：成功与三鹿联手在中国普及了三戮氰胺这个专业化学名词。
　　
　　3、百度CEO李彦宏 
　　入选理由:成功在中国普及了 “金钱决定位置”的人生教育
　　
　　4、黄光裕
　　入选理由：中国首富带头示范加强法制教育的必要性，是对李彦宏人生价值观的必要补充
　　
　　5、DONEWS创办人刘韧：
　　入选理由：教育了我们千万不能在茶楼酒吧等公共场所接受别人的“红包”，最安全的是澡堂。

    6、华硕：
　　入选理由：教育了我们的消费者不要随便告企业，否则很容易进去。

　　7、万科：
　　入选理由：告诉了我们一个朴素的真理，这个世界上是没有后悔药的。

　　8、微软：
　　入选理由：正版推广大使，不用正版？等着眼前一黑吧

　  9、雀巢：
　　入选理由：在毒奶粉事件中，出动10万水军横扫国内大小论坛，成功转移视线，这个案例告诉我们，做人只要脸皮够厚，打死不承认，任何人生污点都能抹去。

　　10、巨人：
　　入选理由：以史玉柱为代表的巨人团队以其高超的营销手段，把青少年都送进了“精神病院”，极大缓解了中国的教育压力。

What a life!

F**king busy here.

Endless papers, endless projects.

First blog since landed in US 3 months ago. Can you image that?

Boss is beind me, always, and chasing me all the time without any sympathy.

Challenges are in front of me, and pushing me down the road, till I’m totally insane.

Only positive thing is her. Emails, phones, MSNs, QQs, all about the future: the future just a border away.

Only hang-out was the ’21′. It’s a movie I would like to recommend to you, highly. Though, I’d like to have time to enjoy more.

 

 

不知该说什么，开心是主题

不知道该说什么，很开心是最近的主题。

很多值得开心的事情。硕士答辩顺利通过，找到了很好的另一半，未来的一些事情也有些进展。虽然也有让人难过的事情，但是，仿佛这并不足以阻止我对快乐的追求。

寒窗几年，把自己锁在实验室读论文，一读就是一、二十篇；用实验室那台破电脑做模型运算，一算就是两天；那台激光器做杀人般的实验，没想到一做就是4个月。还好，咬咬牙好像就这样过了，终于到了写论文的阶段。这让我想到了当时写第一篇论文。那时刚刚结束第一阶段的工作，老板说，是时候出第一篇论文了。第一次感觉英文原来是如此陌生，这NND的论文怎么就那么难写。如此的三字经，和恐惧感同时涌上心头用。好不容易挤出点墨水，拿给师兄改，改了100遍。自尊心被摧毁一半。再拿给老板改，又改了100万遍。完全崩溃了。自尊心被磨灭得掉进了太平洋里。现在想想都害怕。

忘了从什么时候开始的，每天的生活变成了非正常的规律：中午起床，4、5点睡觉。每天下午来到实验室，凑或弄点吃的，开始写论文。真是多亏老爸买的笔记本，真是要好好感谢他，基本都没有罢工，每次都把工作完成得漂漂亮亮的，以后要好好感谢它。这是题外话了。写写论文，读读文献，看看康熙，吃吃泡面，写写论文，读读论文，看看康熙。抬头却发现诺大的NINT就基本剩我一个人了。还好当时挑坐位的时候挑的事靠角落靠墙的位子，要不然也会被吓死。当然这也是题外话。然后再写写论文，读读文献，看看康熙，吃吃泡面，结果就发现外面天开始亮了。加拿大就是这个不好，有时天亮太早，现在天亮却那么晚，靠近北极的一个国家，就是不如咱中国。于是收收东西，开着破小车就要回家了。那段时间才发现，原来4、5点还真就有很多人已经起床了，开始为面包和牛奶辛苦奔波。到家，喝点牛奶，洗洗睡，这时才发现，室友已经起床了。有一次很吓人，实验室一个哥们，在某天早上突然冲进实验室，着实吓我一跳。那哥们估计也被吓死了：这是不是撞见鬼了！！一看时间，妈呀，6点多了。心里默默想，我们两个都是疯子…

持续了一个半月的疯子的生活。实在是要感谢老爸送我的本本，老妈送我的小车，TD送我的IPOD，还有自己在纽约买的FM transmitter。以后我要好好对他们。把第一篇论文和平时累积的实验报告总结起来，再读那么几十篇的论文，后来发现自己的有门课程的课程论文也不错。如此一般，零零碎碎加起来，才发现自己的论文居然有超过一百几十页。哈哈，仅剩的那点自尊心终于开始蠢蠢欲动，自我膨胀开始发生，就像中国的股市一样，疯狂的泡沫了。发给老板，来回改了两遍，发现，居然基本上就算定稿了。嘿嘿，我想地球的自转肯定出问题了：掉在太平洋里的自尊心在不规则的地球自转下，还回给我了。很开心。

不仅是地球出问题了，我想我的积聚多年的rp也开始回馈我了。一个偶然的机会认识了她。加上一次校园偶然的邂逅，开始有所接触。MSN开始聊聊，后来电话开始说说。聊很多东西。其实也不多啦，也就一通电话3、4个小时而已。瓦瑟，实在感谢她，为我平淡无奇的生活增添一道美味佳肴。很喜欢跟她通电话，喜欢没事看看她的空间，喜欢没事听听她推荐的歌儿，喜欢没事YY一些事情。还记得，她第一次下飞机时候的青涩，在校园邂逅那一次时候的羞涩，在电话里的顽皮，在space里面的可爱。还记得，完稿第一版跟她一次去看电影，完稿第二版一起去吃饭，谁能想象两个疯子早上3点出去吃饭？谁能想象他们吃饭完居然还驾车去red deer，来回300公里，一路听着IPOD的小歌，实在是惬意！那天遇上登陆加拿大最大的一场风，车子被吹得摇摇晃晃，吓出一身冷汗…我得承认很喜欢她。跟她在一起很开心。有时候是一个顽皮的精灵，带给你很多快乐；有时有时一个熟识的朋友，给你鼓励和信心；有时候是我的私人厨师，给我做很多好吃的菜，特别喜欢吃她做的那个什么什么豆腐，如此忙碌的毕业阶段，不瘦反胖，她有大大的一功；有时候是….这个就不再这里说了。总之一句话，很开心。我想这是RP爆发的结果。

开心归开心，也有不顺利的事情。不想在这里提了。以后有机会慢慢说说看。有很多想要感谢的人，不一一点名了。改天请你们吃饭。

同类

同   类
易家扬

雨后的城市

寂寞又狼狈
路边的座位

它空着在等谁
我拉住时间

它却不理会
有没有别人

跟我一样很想被安慰

风停了又吹

我忽然想起谁
天亮了又黑

我过了好几岁
心暖了又灰世界
有时候孤单的很

需要另一个同类

 

爱收了又给

我们都不太完美
梦作了又碎

我们有几次机会
去追
不晓得为什么爱

又稀少又昂贵

云在半空中

被微风剪碎
回忆也许美

可是正在飞走对不对