fitness

a photo from a funeral I shot this morning, but I'm afraid of entering a Catholic church

Last time I updated this blog was more than three months ago.

A week ago I was in Austin, TX for the National College Media Convention. I came back on Sunday and went directly from the airport to work. And the next day, I felt that story of I was having fun in Austin is a long time ago.

And today is just a week from the Austin trip but I don't feel the distance is only seven days long. However, it makes me feel that's more than that.

Well, everything is going well, school, working at the Lobo, girlfriend and myself. Except our football team is 0-8 now, I dare saying they will be 0-9 tonight.

Sometimes happiness is really simple and easy, a 'Good night babe!' from girlfriend, a 'Good job!' from boss, a 'Thank you!' from a stranger...... something like that

I brought some photo ideas back from Austin. Will work them these days. Maybe I can finish one or two independent projects soon.

A day before my 365th day in the states

A Sunday without work, makes me feel a little empty and the heat of summer. It's hot in my house and every where else. I planned a lot of things to do, but didn't do any during the day. Finally I went for jogging on the Johnson Field to get rid of all the extra energy. And finished reading some of the books I borrowed from the UNM fine arts library.

There're a few I really like are Elliott Erwitt's 'Personal Exposures' and 'Handbook', Bruce Davidson 'East 100 Street' and 'Circus'. Well, looking at famous artists work always gives me new ideas. But on this lazy, it inspired me to look at my hard drive to seek some old stuff.

I do need to work on my portfolio to seek a job in a bigger newspaper. Since Albuquerque Journal is not hiring anyone. Santa Fe, Las Cruces,... or somewhere in New Mexico or in other state. Nowadays, photographers are just becoming cheap labors.

One good news, we are going to launch the new Daily Lobo website (http://dailylobo.com) very soon. This is the biggest thing I've done since I joined this newspaper. I am very excited about that.

And also tomorrow will be my 365th day in the U.S., which means I haven't seen my family in a year. I should cook some Chinese food to celebrate that I survived here. (Well, my mon once said 'If you can survive in China, you can survive anywhere.' She is probably right.)

football + yoga

When I got Issac's message yesterday, I laughed out.
The first request I received this week is to take photos of the UNM football players doing yoga. It would be fun to watch those people that are huge doing yoga which is the thing mostly for skinny people and they do it very slow.


A few players showed up, but the ones that attended were concentrated on doing yoga. Very soon, I figured out they seemed more interested in looking that the yoga teacher than doing yoga. ( This is the universal phenomenon but wouldn't been included in the reporter's article.)
Issac told me this lady is Mike Locksley's wife. And Mike Locksley is the UNM football head coach.


ps, Hope UNM football team could do a good job in the coming season. (At least, should be better than last year.)
Well, I really don't understand why the Mountain West Conference has a stupid preseason poll, which picked the Lobos to finish in the 7th place in the 2009 race. ( I don't want to deny the fact that the Lobos didn't do a good job before, but the preseason poll couldn't do any good to motivate the college students. Come on, they are just college kids.)

Renewal (finished project)

The final selections of this project 'Renewal'.
I shoot most of the photos at the beginning of summer.
(Look down from the top, two photos of each is a pair, hope you can find the connections)

lunch break

I used my the lunch break to shoot the UNM football team press conference. When I got there I couldn't believe they chose to have it outside. It was 1 o'clock in the afternoon and over 100 degrees.
Well, I got used to it. I'm just complaining.

ps, I just found the color of this photo is different from how it looks like on Photoshop. Even, with the same photo, but different color on the Bridge compared to Photoshop, the latter one is more vivid.

A family and a restaurant (a work in progress)

It is hard for me to come up with a better name for this series of photos.
Finally, I got the phone call from Brenda: she said the owner would let me take photos of his restaurant, which is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in town. My friend Brenda's whole family works there.
Well, that's the reason I had access to the kitchen and free food~




ps, I find I always need to be ready to answer the question from people 'why do you want to take a photo of me?' Anytime, yeah!!