Saturday Random Photos

The day of the super moon that everyone had been telling me about, the morning was promising that we might have a clear sky Saturday night. I got up early to go to a T-shirt sales from one of the manufacturing companies in Maiden, all T-shirts were selling for $1 to $3 each.  I think they might try to get rid of their inventory before the fiscal year end.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/13, 1/400sec, ISO 400, focal length 24mm, evaluative metering

My niece got a few of these three quarter sleeve T-shirts, and Lee got several T-shirts and a hoodie sweater around her waist for $1 each.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/2000sec, ISO 400, focal length 60mm, evaluative metering

Lee took my Rollerblade to my Dad’s house, she could comfortably fit into a size 8.5 now.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 75mm, evaluative metering

She was teaching my niece how to rollerblading, kids pick things up fast these days.  I actually started out with roller skate when I was little living in Brooklyn, New York.  There’s not a lot to do growing up in the city and I got really good at it, even had races with some of the neighborhood kids skating backward, of course I had many scars to prove it as well.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/3200sec, ISO 400, focal length 50mm, evaluative metering

It has been a while since I visited Bo’s mom, and Bo came home with these fresh eggs for my dad on Friday. I see there are still blue eggs laid by Bo’s Americana hens.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/200sec, ISO 400, focal length 58mm, evaluative metering

We ate healthy on Saturday, a Lao noodle vegetable wrap with fresh mint and parsley from my Dad’s garden. I stir-fry the chicken and pork, and we had the Romaine lettuce as the wrap with spicy peanut dipping sauce.

Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/20sec, ISO 400, focal length 73mm, evaluative metering, tripod mounted

My mom’s Orchid is in the 8th week of blooming, can’t believe that it has been 2 months and still as pretty as ever.

Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/320sec, ISO 400, focal length 200mm, evaluative metering, tripod mounted

My dad’s seedlings got a little bigger.

Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/4, 1/2000sec, ISO 400, focal length 200mm, evaluative metering, tripod mounted

He has 2 crab apple trees, this one that was so abundant last year doesn’t look like it would bear many fruits this year.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/640sec, ISO 400, focal length 67mm, evaluative metering

And this other tree looks like it would but the fruits are extremely tiny.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 65mm, evaluative metering

I haven’t seen any Bee this year but the birds are everywhere now, especially in my Dad’s backyard.  This one is a Robin, and I think it might be a male since the chest color is very rich.

Canon T2i, EF70-200mm f/4L USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/8sec, ISO 400, focal length 200mm, evaluative metering , closeup cropped

I remember planting these many years ago, it’s nice to see them come up year after year.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 105mm, evaluative metering

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 105mm, evaluative metering

The housing market is suffering in our area.  This house and many other houses in my Dad’s neighborhood have to constantly reducing the selling price and even that no one would buy.  The economy is suffering everywhere, but the problem seems so minimal now comparing to what is going on in other parts of the world.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/125sec, ISO 400, focal length 24mm, evaluative metering

My second sister and I had a nice walk, I think the pollen is finally catching up to me.

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/160sec, ISO 400, focal length 80mm, evaluative metering

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/250sec, ISO 400, focal length 60mm, evaluative metering

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1/320sec, ISO 400, focal length 97mm, evaluative metering

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/50sec, ISO 400, focal length 47mm, evaluative metering

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/6.3, 1/1000sec, ISO 400, focal length 75mm, evaluative metering

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/11, 1/100sec, ISO 400, focal length 96mm, evaluative metering

This was all I saw of the super moon. I had a good 5 minutes of clear shot and it vanished into the thick dark cloud. The photo was taken from my Dad’s driveway at 7:56 pm (19:56).

Canon T2i, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens, Manual, f/5.6, 1.6sec, ISO 800, focal length 28mm, spot metering, tripod mounted

Catawba Valley Women’s Show

I’ve attended many events at the Hickory Metro Convention Center before, but not the Women’s Show.  Bo gave me a free ticket several weeks back and I went with my second sister today.  I’m still struggling with indoor photography and crawled back to using the green box many times, so this post is a mixed of shooting in Auto and AV mode.

AV, f/4, 1/30sec, ISO-400, EB 0, focal length 35mm, pattern metering

There were many booths for home decor, I love looking at the fabrics and pillows.

AV, f/4, 1/100sec, ISO-800, EB 0, focal length 45mm, pattern metering

AV, f/4, 1/20sec, ISO-400, EB 0, fl 55mm, pattern metering

The highlight of the show was when my second sister spotted Danny’s photo, tt’s nice to see his photos on display. Danny was listed with Dorothy Houston at Connections Model & Talent when he was living in North Carolina.

This one was his ads from Target, Danny autographed this for her.

This was right after he moved to NYC, Danny is living in the Big Apple now.

This was for the first Thai magazine Volume that he graced the cover with Odit.

The JCPenney ads, and he is still booked with them.

I haven’t updated much on Danny Bunyavong, not that he is not busy in his modeling career, in fact he is busier than ever.  He was in the Macy’s Glamorama again this year and is now shooting advertising for Macy Department store as well.  There are other ads that I wish I could get my hand on.

And the fashion show, not the easiest task to shoot runway fashion. I do need to read up on indoor photography.

I bought some handmade soap, Honey Almond, Orange Hibiscus and Cucumber Melon.  I wonder if they are as good as Cambree Botanica handmade soap, I absolutely love hers. This one is $3.50 each, and 3 for $10.

AV, f/4, 1/25sec, ISO-100, EB +0.3step, focal length 92mm, pattern metering

Lyra Shines at Hickory Valley Hills Mall

I’ve never posted an HD video here before, mainly because this free version of WP doesn’t allow me to adjust the viewing screen so it’s super tiny. Also it might be hard to view if you have a slow internet connection, so most likely I will not load a 1080HD video again in Vimeo.

I learned something new whilst making this video. I didn’t know before that I could overlap clips, I just have to mute one of them and I choose to do a full screen overlap instead of a tiny screen at the corner. Click here to view a bigger screen at vimeo.

My sister told me that Demi Lovato was performing at our mall last Saturday and we went since Lee is a huge fan of hers.  I guess she misunderstood by this poster, and so were many people that went there in hoping to meet Demi in person.

It was enter for a chance to meet Demi Lovato!

We saw Lyra Shines performing instead and she has a great voice.

The two guitarists.

Lee got a free black tank top from the concert, she puts it on right away.

I’m not an economist, but the economy has not picked up any in our area and this is a way to get young people to come out and shop.  Things are looking kind of gloomy lately, but the good thing that came out from this is that it will be a tax free back to school shopping this weekend, so don’t spend too much money and save some for a rainy day.

Dock Yard Self Storage Commercial

Finally a commercial of Armor man in action! The action figure is great since they’re located right behind Hickory Dickory Dock Family Entertainment.

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