AUGUST 7, 2010 – Lemarie and I went to Chinatown this afternoon to attend the 2010 Chinatown Street Festival. We missed a couple of performance but that’s okay. We got most of them covered anyway.

Good thing it wasn’t humid today otherwise we could have melted there. Anyway, it’s nice to see Chinatown looking alive. Usually people go there just to eat. Nothing much to see unlike the Philippines’ Binondo and Calgary’s.

On a side note, that photo with men and their big cameras while Lieutenant General Philip Lee passing by… I find it interesting.

Actually I expected that there will be a lot of “Chinese” stuff going on (i.e. performances) but it turned out there was a mix performance. Was totally surprised when I saw an Indian Trio doing an Indian dance. Yup. I think it wouldn’t hurt if there were Chinese food stalls as well. But I guess since Chinatown is surrounded mostly with restaurants, they probably have some city ordinance or something like that. I just remembered, since at UofM, student groups can’t sell food near the cafeteria. Business reasons.

On a technical note, I modified the Sunny 16 rule and stuck with ISO 400, 1/400 (for the most part) and f/8 aperture. I’m trying to brush up the technical side of photography by asking K a lot of questions. Hopefully he doesn’t get tired answering me (usually he just directs me to websites).

JULY 14, 2010 – Wednesday afternoon when I got a quick text message from Aris asking if I want to shoot the sunset. Tired and sleepy already but we pushed through.

I’m glad we did.

I know, I know. I’m doing backlogs. I didn’t miss the day before but I don’t have the files with me at the moment so that’ll wait. Right now I’m just moving forward, posting and catching up with the missed days.

The weather was nice, my only problem was the mosquito festival. I got bitten several times, it wasn’t funny.

I haven’t seen Carla in a while. She owns a Diana F+ and so I brought my Holga CFN 120 and we decided to shoot doubles. I guess some people who might have seen us carrying plastic cameras together with our dslr bodies find us odd, but what the hell, right? It’s about the love of photography, and not about the tools.

Too lazy to write something, so I’ll let the photos talk about it.

I was on my way home from T&T after my 8-hr shift last Wednesday when I got a call from Jacky, asking me if I’m at home already. Well to cut the story short, I rushed back to my dorm and went out with him for photos.