an apple a day

at the harbor

I spent few hours today at Waukegan harbor to relax and of course to take pictures. Nothing much going on except for some guys who are fishing, boats are on dock (official boating season is over) and spotted few seagulls. Sky is kind of hazy and lake water is somewhat "grayish". 

Cheers!

around the house

As I have mentioned before, I have been shooting around the house due to non stop rain for few days. Thanks God, sun came out today. Anyway here are the pictures:

living room

dining room

foyer

above the mantel

above the piano

Tara's reflection on the piano while she's playing

The Old Man

playful figurines

That's all for now. Please come again

let there be light

It's been raining for the past few days so I have been trying to take photos around the house. Tonight I have decided to experiment on  a candle. I tried different settings mostly on long shutter speed.

it's game time!

Last Saturday 06 Sept 08 was Tara's first soccer game for this fall season.  It will run until last week of October. It was a beautiful day. I was able to take some decent pictures.

More to come. Cheers!

the unexpected

Last Aug 9, 2008 me and other divers from Toucan dive chartered a boat to do some wreck diving in the "straight of makinaw" in Lake Michigan in Chicago. On my second dive while descending for some reason I lost my dive camera and I never found it after searching.  I was sad and then I just let it go.

a phone call yesterday delivered a good news! I was shouting for joy! another diver a week later found my camera buried under the sand and particles. This morning I picked it up from the good samaritan diver, her name is Cathy. Thank you! the camera is perfect condition. Underwater housing really worked!

here are some of the pictures from the camera.

the chartered boat, good thing I took this because Cathy was able to track me down!

me and Bill, my dive buddy

chicago skyline from the distance

our gears

" the tower"

Big thanks!

"photoshopped"

Although I don't have any Photoshop Elements software, I used the effects available in iphoto '08 to create these effects, mostly sephia, vignette and edge blur. These pictures were taken in the Philippines last June.

tropical flowers

this  Alex, my youngest daughter

again...Alex

"bestfriends"

a fishing boat

"free dryer"

house by the shore

sunset

this Tara...

Cheers!