More of London

Our grandbaby Nicci getting taller, stronger, interacting more and almost three months old.

No photos were allowed inside the Tower of London.

Glass Pillow memorial to the executed

the London Eye

Big Ben

No photography were allowed inside the St. Paul's Cathedral.

Buckingham Palace is only open to the public two months each year when the Queen is on holiday. Our timing was just right! The inside was amazing, the collection of paintings and art works were awesome, No photos were allow inside, darn.

The Queen's golden coach

The backside of the Palace

The Palace pond

A lot of pictures were taken through the window of a coach (bus).

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Back from Britain and Ireland

Joy, Nancy, Frank and I just got back from "The Best of Britain and Ireland" tour we took for two weeks Our Holiday or vacation as we call, it was quite lovely. The weather was the best the country side has seen all season. This is the first of many postings (I'll update the blog 2-3 times a week) please click on the arrow in the left bottom corner to start the video and enjoy!

Sarah's Baby Shower

Our good friend's Frank and Nancy's daughter, Sarah's baby shower. Friday, August 28th,2009 at Aunt Ali's house in Rancho Bernardo. Directed by Sarah's sister, April, executed by Mom, Nancy, sister Marguerite and cousin Missy.

Video of Sarah's Baby Shower - click arrow at the bottom left corner to start

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Anniversarys and a Birthday on Aug 4th

Nancy, Frank, Joy and I celebrated our 36th with our best friends 37th together at the Mortons Steakhouse yesterday. Ariana was born on our 17th wedding anniversary, "my present to Joy" ha! Joy's sister Therese and Mark also had their 30th anniversary yesterday.

The first time I saw Joy was when she transferred into my English class the last semester of our senior year. She wanted to be with her best friend, Denise, who lived across the street from me. I still remember what she wore that first day, a mid-calf length sexy black dress with tiny red flowers and brown high heel granny boots. Joy has that wild light brown curly hair with other attributes that drove me crazy. I ask her to go to the prom with me by using my hippy surfer dude cartoon drawings, I didn't know that she was an artist (and she accepted). Joy told me later that she could tell I had the "hots" for her.

from the Morton's Steakhouse point & shoot camera and card - service was excellent

the Menu was pretty cool too it said "Happy Anniversary August 4, 2009" like it was just made for us.

Ariana with baby Nicci

Portrait with Vignetting

I've been playing alot with portrait shots lately and I like to isolated the subject more with a vignetting effect without using Photoshop - just using my hands.

the Veronicas finally meet

For a couple of weeks my mom didn't want to see little Veronica because mom thought her symptoms were contagious. Mom has colon cancer and losing is weight, dad is in and out of the hospital, but overall they're in good spirits. Thanks to my brother, Noel, they are in good hands. Monday after work we finally got the great grandma Veronica and great granddaughter Veronica together!

Thumbs up grandma

Lisa and Grant Engagement

Last Sunday we went to Phelan, CA to celebrate Lisa Wood and Grant Bertoson's engagement party. It was a nice family get together. Our daughter, Leilani and Lisa have been friends for years and since our daughters are so close, they honor us as part of the family. Congratulations Lisa and Grant!!!

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Kelly Ann - Yacht

Last Saturday I worked on this millions of dollar yacht fixing the tv signals and when I was done, I had a chance to take some pictures. I used to help Joy's brother Andy worked on several yachts many years ago, he's still fixing his friends boats. I remember when Andy made the stainless steel sailfish door handle - he's pretty talented and he also built his own 40ft boat out of aluminum.
Playing around with the camera's setting like the black & white, contrast, white balance, etc.. I got these effects. I make the photo to look like a storm is coming, but the pictures were taken under a bright sun and the water was a little choppy even made it better. I made the chrome bell look like see thru and I like the fisheye effect. It's pretty cool playing with black & white. - Not Photoshop -

A Family Picture

Nicci's family

Baby's nickname "Nicci"