Fork in the Road.

I love photography. And I remember when I first put this site up I was ecstatic for the world to see what I saw through my lens.

Now, I think I’m in over my head. For the past events that I’ve done, I have experienced too much noise in my pictures. It felt discouraging. It felt like someone was crushing my soul.

What was once a great idea to someone, is left as something that they can hardly care for. I think what made this whole thing awesome was the fact that no matter how discouraged or scared I got of success, there was always someone that kept believing in it. It does get pretty lonely when you’re the only one that thinks your own idea is great.

I am not sure what to do now. I am sure many have experienced a point in their life where they thought their dreams were unattainable. In my case, I lack so many things needed for this to come true. I have no teacher. And as I take another picture that has noise I can see from miles away, I lack the drive to want to be better because the way I feel right now is that, “no one really cares.”

I guess I enjoyed the fact that this “idea” actually made me feel invincible. It made me feel like I can actually step out of the box and do ANYTHING.

 

First Family Portrait.

I recently had a photo shoot this past weekend and I had the honor of taking my brother’s first real Family Portraits. It went well because they both wore black which created a great focus on the baby. Here are how the pictures turned out. If anyone is interested, I’d be more than happy to do them for you. I know of great scenic and local areas that would look nice for family portraits.

Baby Portraits.

These are hard. Especially if the background is a nice tempting big park. I got my cousins together and decided to take pictures of the NEXT GENERATION babies. Out of 527 shots I was able to get 170 good ones. I posted up my favorites to share with y’all. It was so much fun! It is challenging to get each kid to stay and look at the camera but there were some good shots that came out.

Cakebox Cupcakery.

Now I’ve been shopping around for cupcakes for the past couple of weeks because my daughter’s birthday is coming up. I’ve gone to Teacake on Bay Street, Sift Cupcakery in Napa, Bakery @ Safeway, and even Sprinkles in Palo Alto. So far, I haven’t found any of them to be above and beyond or extraordinary. To my own personal taste,  some were sweeter than others and they just got more and more expensive as I went further on I-80!  In my opinion, when I ordered a mini cupcake from Sift, it was too big and there was so much frosting so I couldn’t really taste the fusion of the frosting with the cake.

Cakebox Cupcakery is an up and coming business! I ordered about 5 doz from them for a baptism I had to shoot. I went with the S’more and Red Velvet flavor. They even worked with me to put tiny crosses on each cupcake!

My favorite is the S’more flavor. I had a BBQ dinner at my cousins house the other night and ordered 5 doz S’more cuppies and they were gone within an hour!!!! It’s the perfect size and the marshmallow frosting wasn’t too sweet either.

Here are some pictures and it also contains their contact info! So if you’re looking for mouth watering, good priced cupcakes, go with Cakebox!!!!

love of my life.

I took this picture in the office of my complex. While I was filling out paperwork my genius 4 year old daughter was pretending to fill out paperwork as well. This picture is also featured on my daughter’s personal website. (YES, she has her own website) You can view it here.

My daughter Mya is  very mature for her age. At four, she is able spell, write, and comprehend things that a normal 8 year old can. She has her own laptop and uses her webcam to create vids for jerimya.com. She is trying to copy the show on the Disney Channel called iCarly. While her website is still under construction,  I wanted to share one of my favorite portraits I took of her.

Anthony and Lorabel’s Wedding.

I had the privilege of shooting one of my good friend’s wedding. Even though I’m not as experienced as some of the pros out there, I was honored that Anthony and Lorabel trusted me to capture their day! Here are just a few highlights of my favorite pictures. If you look at some poses they are just like my practice set with Rachelle and Brandon. This was the wedding I practiced for! Hope you guys like it!

Practicing on Flowers.

I try to get as much advice, tips, and pointers from any photographer, whether it be a pro, novice, or someone that simply knows nothing but somehow has a great eye of producing awesome photos, I want to know it all! It’s from them that I can only get better. When I first got my Nikon D80 from Amazon, I didn’t know who to practice on or where. So I purchased my first photography book by Scott Kelby called The Digital Photography book. This was by far one of the best books I’ve ever read! It truly gave me an insight on how pros think and certain ways to take photos. In the book it suggested to practice on flowers! So I went to my local flower shop and bought one of each flower! It was the best $37.00 I could have ever spent. I placed the flowers on top of my stove, turned on the stove light for lighting, turned on the kitchen light for more lighting and used my on camera flash. People have told me that by looking at these photos, they would have never known it was on top of my stove! Well it is!!!! That’s depth of field for ya!!!..These were the very FIRST photos I ever took with my Nikon D80! Hope you enjoy!

Computer Doctor.

I have to take time to give credibility to a special person. He made my website. If it weren’t for him, this site would not exist. From the special font, to the background. This was all custom made. If anyone is interested in computer help, programs, have a virus, ANYTHING, this is the go to guy. Alpha Nerd can help you in anything you need for your technology needs! lol You can view his services here.

Hairshow.

My Aunt was nice enough to bring me to the Hair Exhibit in San Jose that they have every year. It was AWESOME! I’ve always had a interest in cosmetology and have always admired my Auntie Prez for her success. She is absolutely AMAZING with hair.  You can view her page here.

Here are some of my favorite shots during that day! This was a Paul Mitchell Hair show.

Sift. A Cupcakery.

I’ve had this cupcake fetish for the past couple of days. I am shopping around for cupcakes for my daughter’s upcoming 5th birthday. Here’s a place in Napa CA called Sift. A Cupcakery that has great cupcakes for a reasonable price. I ate about 5 of them!!!