dp.hotography

Feeling of Emptiness

dp — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:10:05 +0000

Oh my goodness, I really want to start taking pictures again.
I’ve been so MIA from the photography world.

Anyway, here is my favorite picture in recent memory. Oh, what’s that? A whiff of life in this photoblog?

UC Riverside acts2fellowship Connect (Part 1)

dp — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:03:20 +0000

Got back from acts2fellowship Connect at UC Riverside. We were there from Monday to Sunday helping out a2f Riverside.

Here are some highlights through pictures as usual. The rest are on this set. I’ve also uploaded to Facebook, which I usually don’t like to do, but I did on a whim this time around. Anyhow, what follows is a quick summary of what I did there.

Monday
Quick tour then hit up dining halls. Prep work at Hack. More dining halls. Stayed over at Black Oak for the night. Helped organize ride assignments. No real pics from the day.

Tuesday
Morning tabling and flyering. Orientation at Mandarin Garden with Berkeley and Austin people arriving. Flex time. Meet & Greet. Dinner at Pho Vi Nam with Mike and Josh. Stayed over at Abe’s.

acts2fellowship table near the bell tower. free donuts!

Mike flyering for a2f Welcome Night.

Orientation.

Orientation: role playing–introducing ourselves to riverside students.

Meet & Greet. a2f riverside regular members meet with the a2f connect team.

Meet & Greet.

Wednesday
Krn bbq tacos. Ice cream social. Skit practice. Setup for reset. Reset. Fail at getting into SRC.

Krn bbq tacos welcome team.

Games off to the side to win some prizes.

Ice Cream Social.

Good conversation? Hope so :D

People waiting for RESET to start.

Praise band doing a final run through.

The mask skit.

(Lizzie and) Kevin read his testimony. Steve gave the talk.

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That is all for now. I will put up a second post with pictures from Thursday to Sunday later.

2010 in review

dp — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:13:22 +0000

This was provided by WordPress.com haha.

Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,400 times in 2010. That’s about 23 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 134 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 362 posts.

The busiest day of the year was January 11th with 117 views. The most popular post that day was [P365] Day 11 – Traffic Violation.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, brandontsai.wordpress.com, justinjkim.wordpress.com, miketchen.wordpress.com, and Google Reader.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for david park photography, holly carag, bible heart, king kong shower, and john 3:16.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

[P365] Day 11 – Traffic Violation January 2010
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[Favorites] John 3:16 August 2009
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[Favorites] Beach Backflip August 2009
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(dp.hotography).about April 2009
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dp.about March 2009
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New ddwai Header

dp — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:18:03 +0000

First some random pictures I took yesterday…

It seems I have a red Christmas theme goin’ on. Then there’s this other picture that I took of my sister two nights ago. It was spur of the moment ’cause the house was dark and she was trying to scare me by holding the cell phone up to her face. It ended up being a photoop.

Some heavy post-processing afterward though to give it the ghastly look and to remove the whites of her eyes.

Then there’s this picture, which was not planned to be my new ddwai header, but I liked it so much that I decided to give it a try. I’m using a free trial of Adobe’s Production Suite right now so I have the new Photoshop. I have no idea how to use that thing. This is one of my goals for 2011. Must learn photoshop more.

Anyway, here is a rough image after I added in the text and the blur effects that I wanted.

Note the blurred words :D

Here’s the cropped and inverted image that will actually be used.

That’s that! And random: there are areas that are heated outside the Peet’s in Irvine. So awesome.

Merry Christmas!

dp — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:37:14 +0000

I can’t believe 2010 is already coming to an end! This is crazy!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year! See you all in 2011 :D

“I Will Survive” [Bloopers Version]

dp — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:40:41 +0000

Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the “I Will Survive” video that was made for Kairos Weekly Announcements. This is a compilation of bloopers and it should be interesting for you to try to notice how each scene developed as it was practiced. :D

My Day In Three Pictures

dp — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:50:30 +0000

Fall 2010 is officially over for me.

Traffic Light

dp — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:28:56 +0000

Finals week has been pretty exhilarating. I know not many people share this sentiment with me. Anyhow, this is a picture that Vincent came up with while we were studying at Buffet Town.

I Will Survive

dp — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:38:10 +0000

Last Kairos Weekly Announcement of the semester. Good luck studying for finals everyone! :D\

Watch it in HD here.

Preparing for Tim’s Birthday Surprise

dp — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:27:41 +0000

I don’t do the whole grunge look very often in post-processing (just ’cause it takes way too much time per picture), but I had some fun with these on late last night ’cause I couldn’t fall asleep. These are pictures from us waiting for Tim so we could surprise him at Unit 3.