Chinese New Year Parade (Part 5) - San Francisco, CA

On February 23rd, 2019, I went to San Francisco, CA to see the Chinese New Year Parade. On the trip, I also took a walk down The Embarcadero, and shot some photos at Pier 39. I split the photos into 6 parts. I hope you enjoy viewing the photos.

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Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 

This is part 5 of my photos. I took a bunch of photos at the Chinese New Year Parade. I split the photos from the parade into 2 parts. This is part 1 of my photos from the parade.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

Black and white process of the photo above.

Photo from the Chinese New Year Parade.

 Black and white process of the photo above.

 Facebook's Chinese New Year parade float.

Lucky Supermarket's Chinese New Year parade float.

This is all the photos for today! I hope you have enjoyed the photos! Next time I have more photos from the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco, CA. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 

NBC Bay Area Wants Permission To Use My Photo

Screenshot Credit: NBC Bay Area Facebook Page

So I woke up to a bit of a surprise in my Facebook Notifications this morning. I saw that NBC Bay Area replied one of my photos I posted to their Timeline. After clicking it, I find that they want my permission to use my photo as their Facebook cover photo and/or on their website. Of course I excitedly replied yes. 😊 Thank you very much NBC Bay Area. You have made my day. I feel so honored you guys would select me.

So more on that photo. It was a panorama I shot the past Saturday after a photowalk in San Francisco. It was shot at the end of Pier 14. I waited for the moon to rise just slightly above the Bay Bridge before shooting the sequence for stitching. The rest of my photowalk photos and this one will be coming up on a blog post really soon. So don't forget to check back!

If you want to view the original photo now, you can do so here.

Lone Pine, CA/Cerro Gordo - Death Valley National Park (Part 2)

At the end of November last year (2012), I took a trip to Death Valley National Park. This is the second trip there in my life. The 1st time I went, I was still a little kid, and I didn't start taking photos yet. This time, I have a pro camera and I am ready to shoot the scenery. Death Valley National Park is known for its "out of this world" scenery, UFO sightings, and many other things. The desert is a very mysterious and beautiful place. In this chain of blog posts, I will be showing you mainly photos of Death Valley National Park, but also photos from surrounding areas like The Mojave Desert, Alabama Hills, and Rhyolite Ghost Town. I have picked out over 400 photos from my trip to show you guys and I will be dividing them into many blog posts. Unlike blog  post chains before, I obviously can't put a link of ever blog post on every single blog post, so instead, I will do the same thing I did for my Yellowstone National Park photos before, by sticking a link of the Next and Previous post on each blog post instead.

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Message from the Photographer: I didn't find any time to do a blog post yesterday, so here is one today! I hope you enjoy it. Also I have gotten a new Canon GP-E2 GPS receiver for my new Canon EOS 5D Mark III! Obviously you can't see the geotags on my blog, but it will help me give you a better position on some of the photos. 

Continuing from the last blog post, I have photos of my trip into Death Valley National Park from Lone Pine, CA. The first stop I made was the Cerro Gordo ruins (ghost town). I didn't go all the way in because the road was too bumpy for me and it made me sick to my stomach, but I did get some shots of some of the historical remains in the area.

On the way into Death Valley National Park, I saw a wild horse on the side of the road. Since I only had my wide angle lens on, I just shot some wide angle shots with the horse in it. 

The area was so beautiful and quiet. The horse didn't seem to mind me being there. I guess I was pretty far away too. So...

The highway leading to Death Valley National Park. There is just one car approaching. Wasn't too many cars there.  

Panorama of the mountains off in the distance.  

The straight highway leading to Death Valley National Park.  

 Now I arrive at the Cerro Gordo ruins. Here is some remains in the ghost town. 

Photography Tip: When composing your shot, make sure you have something for the person viewing the photo to look at. Don't just do landscape with nothing else. Use rocks or other objects (like the one above of the ghost town remains) to spice up your shot! It will make it look a lot better. Look around and see if you can find objects you can use to lead the viewer into the shot. As for my shot above, after I took the first shot of the remains, I thought to myself, this would make a great foreground for a landscape shot! So I proceeded in doing so. 

Remains of a house? Not sure. Anyways, I didn't go too deep into the ghost town because again, the bumpy dirt road made me car sick so I just went half way in. Most of the ghost town is deeper down the road I think. 

A sign introducing you to Cerro Gordo. Saw it as I was about to leave the ghost town. 

These are all the shots I have for today. Next time, I will have more shots of the desert, some desert plants, and possibly photos from Padre Crowley Point (Father Crowley Point). Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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Blue Angels Fleet Week 2012 in San Francisco (Part 4)

I went to Fleet Week 2012 to witness the Blue Angels on 10-6-2012. Here are some of the photos I took at the event. I will be splitting them into several posts. :) Also, I do not have a lot of understanding with the airplanes which means I have no clue what the names for the airplanes are. If you know, I would really appreciate it if you help me out in the comment box below. :) If you want to get a notification when I do a new post, you can "Like" me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar. I will notify you via all those pages when I do a new post.

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Now let's introduce the photos for today. Here are the rest of the Blue Angels photos from the event! After this blog post, I will go back and continue my collection of Yosemite photos. Hope you enjoy viewing the photos!

Blue Angels flying over the Golden Gate Bridge 

 Blue Angels flying over the Golden Gate Bridge

Blue Angels flying over the Golden Gate Bridge  

 Blue Angels flying over the Golden Gate Bridge

Blue Angels flying over Alcatraz Island 

Thank you for looking! I hope you have enjoyed viewing this chain of photos. Please don't forget to share my blog posts with your friends! If you would like to get notifications next time I post, you can "Like" me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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American Whitewater Expeditions

Remember the star trails I did last time? If you missed it, you can see it here. Here are the other photos from my camping trip. Obviously, I did not bring my camera along on the rafting trip, so there will be no photos from that. These photos was from around the campsite. I took both regular and HDR photos there. I hope you enjoy viewing these!

If you want to see my star trails, you can see it here. There is also a tutorial on how you can do star trails on there too.

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There were some baby ducklings in the pond near the campsite.
边上一个池塘里的小鸭子。

The duckling in the back was slightly blurred.  

Can't tell if this was due to bad focusing or high ISO, but I thought the slight blur made a great effect for the photo. I suspect the blurring was bad focusing. Should have used AI SERVO on my camera instead of ONE SHOT.

Another shot of the ducklings. 

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 American river, and a house in the background. I thought the golden color of the sun as it was setting for the day looked great on the house. 

A photo of the sunset in Placerville. This was taken after the rafting trip on the way home.
在回家路上拍的日落。

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The rest are the HDR compositions I made. In my option, they weren't very good subjects for HDR. LOL Please enjoy.

This is the pond the ducklings was swimming in. I don't think they are in this shot.

A shot of the American River. A 5-stop neutral density filter was used for the shot. 

HDR composition of the house and the river. This time zoomed out a bit. 

This is all the photos for this trip. I hope you have enjoyed viewing those! Again, if you haven't checked out my star trails photo and instructions on how to do one yourself, you can see my post here. Please don't forget to share my blog posts with your friends! If you would like to get notifications next time I post, you can "Like" me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.