Teaser and new site

A new site to come soon, for now, a teaser of a wedding from two weeks ago.

Katie and Oscar

As far as revamping the blog....might take some time. For the time being, here are some shots from a wedding. Many thanks to Enoch Kim as well. As far as the pictures go, I have been trying out various styles and color, which explains why a lot of them look different in color. I think I may have found a particular style with color I like. Anyhow here some some photos.

Not so far from now

Makes me wonder what will happen in a few years. Congrats to my cousin Debbie!

My mind is on vacation

Well my mind and I am literally on my mini vacation. A time to refresh, so far, day one out of four and enjoying every moment of it. Perhaps I am finding a place of solitude, away from all the noise, hustle bustle, and competition of life and work.

Freedom-sort of.

For those who may have wondered "I wonder how that Wesley guy is doing" I can report in telling you that from an outside standpoint I am doing well. I currently live in Newport Beach, have a job that pays well that enables me to buy nice things that I never really use, and can eat food daily that doesnt come from a vending machine. From the inside, I am doing not so well, I have dropped every single thing I considered to be a passion of mine and I go to work miserably doing the daily grind day in and day out. Although sort of botched and half done, the photo for some reason means a lot to me, maybe a beginning of relearning who I am and all that other mumbo jumbo kids who aren't struggling to survive say. Perhaps the big thing getting to me is I am living a purposeless life. That may just be it.So hopefully this photo will be the marker for some more things to come. Not half assing life is hard.

Work sucks my soul

The conundrum of work: you must work to eat and have money to have nice things so that you can spend more time away from your life to pay for your things. Every morning I wake up and stare at my ceiling, I hope there will be a day where I can find something I genuinely like to do (and get paid for it).

Beach day

I have 1 week left until the cubicle drone bee life. So we kicked off summer with a beach trip! Even more important: Fiscus look! Sort of getting there! Here are two attempts that I am pretty pleased with actually.

Childhood is fleeting

In just 18 days my childhood...or teenage-hood will be over. Working that full time job to pay those full time bills. I can only hope I do not lose my sense of ambition and fall into some sort of crappy ikea lifestyle. Here is a picture from a few months ago, I received an ok to post it so here it is--Charlie from Love Generation:

Frustrated

The good news (sort of good): I have joined the working forces of America, got a job at Verizon Wireless. The bad news: Mr. Palahniuk would be oh so disappointment in me. I have had creative constipation for so long now, I feel like I am not producing anything I am satisfied with. Here is some sort of illustration:

Have my standards gotten too high? Am I not having fun with this anymore?

Job interviews and new projects (which I am still constructing in my head)

I have this cool project in my head, with 0 technical know-how. So perhaps I shall struggle through with it in the next week or two, just like how I am struggling to get a full time job. Keeping my fingers crossed, I realized I dont need to worry. Just put your best foot forward and if they dont like it, well, something else in my life is planned then.

This picture was not what I wanted to do originally, but its the best one that came out of the batch. Until I buy a remote trigger, I am not going to do this kind of stuff anymore, manually focusing my lens and dropping crap on water is hard, especially remembering where I focused on. My tripod is broken and scratches my camera so I dont use it either. Anyhow here is my picture.

A new future

For those who have once in a while checked up on this blog know that I have been teetering on the line of lawyer and not lawyer. I made the jump and told my parents, which came out much better than I thought. Now I am on my journey to see where I will be. I tried my hand at some "advanced" photoshop tutorials. Unfortunately the one that struck a lot of interest also had the absolute worst instruction for a novice like me. Anyhow, here is my attempt.

Life is a teeter totter.

So I hear when something goes extremely fast(rockets, cars, life), everything seems to slow down despite its velocity. These past few months have been feeling exactly like that. Perhaps the calm before the storm. Well either way, its about time I brace myself.



On another note: tried to do some sort of minimalist photos. By that, I mean take 2 pictures of pigeons flying.

Love Generation

I had a chance to work on a RedOne music video production. The release date is May 20th and the group is called Love Generation. I will have some stills to celebrate the release date in May, more so because I worked on it and also just to help out the people working behind the stars making the video. The last 4 days were great, and I learned maybe how you present yourself is key to getting a gig and not getting one. Also, make business cards, I missed a good 10 or so great connection opportunities this way. Great. Anyhow since I havent updated this in a while, so here are a few pictures.


First picture that has satisfied me without an edit. Just slapping on a watermark.

Set Photography and Engagement Session

My my, what a week it has been. I think I am realizing I may not want to be a lawyer after all, I might try to push for some set photography internships. NBC? Fox? Well either way, my goal for the next two weeks is to barge in one of those places in downtown SD. Here are some pictures for now. Maybe I will work on my other project for now as well.

I got to help shoot a music video, a band called Future of Forestry. More pictures to trickle down later, this is the only one I decided to give a quick edit just to see how it would look. Not bad for 1000 ISO, my D700 truly is worth all the microwaveable burritos that caused indigestion for a few painful months.


Congrats to Michelle and Tim! Getting married in a week I believe.

Another picture of the two. I need to start editing more I suppose.

I still dont know.

I still don't know what I want to do. I just know I don't want to end up like this:

Time is hustling along

I can't believe its nearly the end of March. I got some umbrellas and a softlighter today.

Bigger and better in Borrego.

The last few days have been quite bust from Grandmother's birthday party to desert trips. Here are a few pictures from the past two days. More to come once I finish editing.

On the way to Anza Borrego, the stars were brilliant. Lots of noise though.


Anza Borrego itself: Level 7 flowers. Barely passing.


Met my other cousin during the party as well. More pictures to come for now.

Alice in Riverside

It was my dear friends birthday last week and it was themed Alice in Wonderland due to the timing of the new movie release date and her birthday, which is on the same day. Kudos to Naomi, who sewed her own costume from scratch and looks quite nice in it to boot. Also a happy birthday to her as well. We started shooting when it was already sunset so time was very very very limited but I got a few shots that I think I liked. Life itself is picking up a bit, and I am making great use of my reflector and SB900. Cant wait for the umbrellas! Anyhow here are some pictures from the weekend.

Alice and Mad Hatter Drop into Riverside



Oh look, here is a tea set



A cup of tea?



Nope.



And Pose.

Unpredictability: I need some of it at the moment.

Life is a slow dull and it is hard to keep myself busy and not glued to the computer screen becoming a mouse potato. I have been trying to take a few more pictures, I think I may be getting a bit better at this ol' picture thing. Maybe not for people though, I have no idea really. I need to do something to fill my time, preferably something that pays me.

Fancy truck feast, kit lens galore, hipster con 09, Pinhole film

Went to the first annual LA street vendor food festival. The amount of kit lenses there were amazing, especially when my friend and I counted about 12 primes between the 300+ people with SLRS. We missed our train there but got a ride from some friends. The food was...not really worth it but standing in line acting like shoulder models and clowning around with the numero uno made it all worth it. I also received a do it yourself pinhole camera, and processed my first two rolls of film. I received plenty of looks and questions for having a cardboard camera. Anyhow here are some pictures.



My first few pinhole pictures