2020 Remotefliers Sloan08212020

Since this is a new year for my blog, here's the latest photos I took at Yosemite last month

 This first photo is taken below Bridal Veil which is one of the most visited spots at Yosemite.

 This second one is a landscape view from the middle of the valley. About 30 minutes before this photos, it was snowing and overcast. In that short time, the overcast clouds cleared up and viola!, dramatic view.

 This is a landscape shot of the same view.

 Here the morning fog was dissipating as the sun started rising from the mountains.

My fellow photographer, Ian, and I decided to try one more stop at the main river before the part entrance. We had noticed snow covered rocks on the river earlier in the morning.

This last shot is simply a macro of the water drops from the melting snow and dew in the morning.

Final set of photos from Shamim photo shoot

I posted some of the edited photos from my photo shoot with Shamim in late July. What I did mention was that in the last 30 minutes of the shoot, I accidentally formatted my memory card on my Nikon D-SLR whereas I wanted to delete some of the photos I had just taken. I spent the last 30 minutes taking as many photos as I could in the remaining time. While those photos turned out well, I was really annoyed at myself for losing the earlier ones. Fast forward to a conversation I had with my friend Ian about the accidental formatting of my memory card. As luck would have it, Ian's girlfriend has a really effective recovery software for accidental formatting of memory card. With nothing to lose, I gave that memory card to Ian last week. Fortunately he was able to salvage some but not all the formatted photos. Here's the results of those recovered photo images. I think Shamim will be happy I'm able to give her more photos for her model portfolio.

Cheers,
JP

unusual dream the other night

This isn't my usual post but I had an interesting dream that I wanted to save before I forgot it all. The other night my alarm on my smartphone went off at 5:55am which I normally wake up around that time to make it to work at 7am. However that morning I let the alarm snooze [indefinitely] because I was more tired than usual. I lapsed back into sleep and shortly thereafter a dream. In my dream, I was at work trying to fix my Nexus 7 tablet. There was a problem with one of the apps that kept on making the same game noise over and over. Beep-Beep-Beep-Beep...! At first, I tried uninstalling the app. That didn't work. Next I checked all my audio settings on my tablet. Nope, no dice. After several more tries including a reset, that damn app noise kept on playing over and over. Finally, in my dream, in a moment frustration I threw my tablet on the floor. Of course, it broken into many pieces but that damn noise was still playing! In utter desperation, I found the wired cable to the speakers. A-ha, I thought, now I can get rid of this noise completely. LOL. It was not to be. Despite being disconnected from the power supply and the speaker, that noise was still there.

In a moment of pure clarity in my dream and juxtaposing into reality, I realized it was my snooze alarm still going off in the real world. It's funny how the brain will take a noise and turn it into a completely different context in a dream state. I wonder how Freudian would have interpreted my dream. 8)

JP

Latest Portraits Photos

Hi fans,

This is my latest batch of Headshot portraits from my photo shoot this week. For this shoot, I was using a male model by the cool name of Alhom. These shots kind of remind of the portfolio headshots that professional models and entertainers use for casting calls. Fortunately Alhom has that boy band look which at 19 years old is probably the reason!

For shooting information, I used my Nikon D300 with a 50mm f/1.8 lens shooting at Aperture Priority 1.8. This allowed me to take advantage of the blurring and bokeh effect you see in the photos.

Hopefully y'all will enjoy them...!

Cheers,
JP