Tzou Photography: September 2010

One night, as I walked up my stairs in the dark, I turned around to see the moon creeping into the stairway. I waited for half an hour or so for the beam to strike RIGHT where I wanted. Eventually, this is the shot I came up with:

While creating this photo, I began to realize how fun it would be to shoot my subjects strictly using moonlight. Unfortunately/fortunately here, a street lamp outside assisted with creating another orange box to fight against the moonlight.

Beginning today, I strive to shoot more photographs using moonlight and creating one or a few posts titled "Moonlight Sonata" discussing my process. Any comments are welcome, especially constructive criticism. Once I begin posting my photos and blogging a little more, I look forward to hearing your comments :]

Well, Christina's time here in sunny California hasn't ended quite yet, but I thought i'd like to share some of the activities we've done so far. Unfortunately the photos are all out of order and actually progress from most to least recent, beginning with a fly fishing event.

This past weekend, Christina joined a few Dartmouth Alumni, including myself, at a Dartmouth Alumni Association of Silicon Valley's fly fishing event. Here, Christina and I learned how to fly fish and attempted to look as good as we could. Let's just say our form wasn't the best and our attempts at casting could be described in one word: failure. I had no idea how hard this sport was. I just thought you threw the line out and waited for a fish to bite. I couldn't have been more wrong. I had no idea there was SO much finesse involved with casting, and that almost now arm power was required to cast my line quite a distance.

The day before our fly fishing extravaganza, Christina and I went out for an afternoon of tennis, which ended up being a blast. Despite Christina have loads of fun smashing balls into the courts next to us forcing me to run and pick them up, I had a blast trying to capture my sweetie playing the sport I had grown up around and that ultimately changed me as a person.

The week before the previous two events are a jumble of various activities. I will let the photos do more of the talking now as I am becoming quite drowsy and cam't seen to writ....