we decided to be spontaneous and just for a sky dive trip! woo hooo!!

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our company XXXmas party! sorry Patty that you didn't make it. Kerry made some gourmet dinner!!! had fun and oh yea i got an early gift! my Elinchrom Quadra came in and i used it with the softbox 20"!!! i love this light...quality light makes a difference...

so i went back home to Visalia, CA for this Thanksgiving! as always just chilled with close family and friends. had alot of turkey and other foods! loved it!

more tragedy in the family with my Grandfather Samuel passing away a few weeks ago. he lived a full life and had lots of family and friends to join in celebrating his life. 40 days later we all did a family reunion which is a custom in Filipino culture. i brought my new gear and took some shots of relatives i haven't seen in a long time or just haven't met yet...good times!

it's Mia's 1st birthday! she's so cute! i had a lot of fun shooting the party. very cute Hello Kitty theme! i did a HDR shot because the sun was coming through the trees and i played with the different levels for it...

i took a trip up with my dorky lover friend Kate. we this was our 3rd year anniversary and we never been to Napa before. we enjoyed the quaint hotel and all the wine!! we also had our first air balloon ride followed by a nice champagne breakfast buffet! very nice! being up in the air floating was refreshing. we had to wake up at 5:30am but it was all worth it...

i guess it's that time of year because i did another graduation. Congrats Justin! the graduation was at their school in Sunnyvale, CA (can't remember right now the name of the place). there were a bunch of photographers with their zooms. i only had my trusty 24-70mm with me. yes i really wished i had the reach in a bigger zoom, but i moved around a bit and got the shots that counted. after the ceremony there are more shoots in the gymnasium which i used the 580ex...

this years Greek Festival was great! the foooood! i love greek food, especially gyros (yeee rows) something like that. i used to live in Crete, Greece for 3 years and i've had a weakness for Greek food ever since. went with Kate and Desiree. i brought the camera with one 580ex and available light. 

   the following day we went shopping at Santana Row in San Jose, CA. someone was craving for Pinkberry... same setup as day before. i was hoping to catch a dog get-together but missed it. we still saw some dogs though.

while attending FanimeCon this year, there was another event taking place for celebration. Desiree's Graduation! very nice ceremony at the Spartan Stadium in San Jose, CA. she told before the ceremony that she didn't like her studio graduation pictures. "what happened?" she just didn't like how they turned out, so i was down to give her some photos. here they are...

  580ex camera right, 430ex camera left, sun behind left

  available light

click this pic to see all graduation event pics

i was able to attend Nathan's 9th birthday! sunny day! came away with decent shots...i hope every one liked them.