Follow the Dandelions...Explore the woods...Smell the Fresh Air...Capture Smiles...Lay in the sun...Draw a picture...Stroll through the city...

 
 
Finally this week is kind of over. I made a new banner for my Home page, compiling mostly all of my photo-shoots from before. Hurray my HD got fixed! Or I would have lost everything. Some are from really long ago it feels... but it was only last year. Looking at the photos reminds me of the day I spent with each person <3.

I miss watching my shows.

I am sooooooo tired of being tired. i just want to sleep to my head's content. Finallyyyyy mini break is arriving.

Here is food.
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made this awhile ago
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I can eat this everyday. Roomie made it
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monokuro <3
- Melody




 
Grace's Photo-shoot is up =) Check out under the "Photo-shoots" tab.

And I just noticed that the resolution is terrible when I looked at some sky pictures on my friend's computer. But it doesn't really show up on mine?! Grainy grains =(. That's something I need to figure out for future shoots when doing a subject on a bright backgrounds. But anyway, here are some fun reflection pictures we took!
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a heart!
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I'm glad we got the silver balloon! It made for some creative shots.
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Oookkk. Finally time to study =)

-Melody
 
I did a photo-shoot of my dear friend Gracie today =). Will talk more about it in detail later.

Next week is packed... Don't know how quickly I can edit pictures!

Here is a preview picture from the shoot today:
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<3 balloons
back to work!

-Melody
 
I made my parents pose for me on Father's Day while waiting for our table at The Kitchen in Milbrae. Yum Dim Sum!
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I love sequence shots.

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candid moments <3
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hehe
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classic mom shot haha
I think i have a whole schedule of photo-shoots coming up.... Hopefully things will go as planned and people's schedules including mine won't ruin things! Still haven't tested out my new BIG lens... like the 50mm lots though so far!

Uhh... ok time to leave behind the mental slump. and get to work. Have to get into the mentality that finals are just around the corner...

-Melody
 
My biological clock is wacko. I am tired at all the wrong times.I just want to pass out for 10 hours so maybe I'll be energized for once.

Maybe it's because I stay up doing things like this!
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Made it for my dad for Father's Day
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tasty and fresh!
Time to reorganize. Everything.

-Melody
 
I'm super excited to announce this...

Aozorafantasii's first album "Flight", comes out today!! (In Japan time) She is a very good friend of mine that is making her music artist debut in Japan.
Also another thing, my photography is featured on the album cover!
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They added the blue cloudy sky to my original photo. Makes it so dreamy and fantastical... like she is walking into an illusion.

It is a big first for me to be published on an album cover to be seen on music stands all around Japan! such a weird and amazing thought. But this is definitely encouraging to me... that even amongst hectic school and pharmacy... photography is something I can still pursue and make something out of. It's like a step toward unfolding a dream as simply as I can put it.

If you're reading this... so proud of you Lisa!  =) So happy and excited to be a part of your album!

Everybody, listen to her music! You'll love it! Her voice has a certain soothing quality that is definitely different from other voices I have heard. There are both English and Japanese tracks on her album, so there's something for everyone = ). She has already made quite a name for herself on youtube.

Check her out here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/aozorafantasii
http://www.myspace.com/aozorafantasii
http://www.facebook.com/aozorafantasii

You can order her album here:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/o/ASIN/B003MTNYS6/

Happy listening! Let's all support this artist! If you really love her music, which I'm sure you will, please buy her album =)


-Melody
 
Today I made banana bread slash donut.
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In the pan
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Out the pan
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Ready to be devoured!


- Melody
 
Couldn't fall asleep again last night. 5am brightness! More testing out the 50mm! with what I have laying around my desk...
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They totally downsized the wraps at TJL cafe... sad. Look at that... 1 inch...
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Warm and cozy milk tea from my Roomie <3
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Pretty clip from China. I wish i got more~
That's it for now! I noticed midterms are becoming more and more anticlimactic. I just want to play. One more to go!


-Melody
 
Picked up my two children from the mail-room today. Aka my new lenses!!

Sample shot with 50mm f1.8 II lens! I am saving the grand opening of the other one so i can enjoy it fully when I finish midterms 8 D.
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helloooo bokeh!
Don't ask me how I got them. It hurts to say the number. But it was definitely necessary to keep me happy = ].

I know when I graduate and start working... I'll probably dump my Benjamins into buying lenses, or a nice Wacom Cintiq, or techi things rather than a couch to sit on. Whatever, floor is fine!
Feel oddly calm. Just a few more days until play time again! Totally failing on updating on drawings for my other site... oops. I have some things imagined in my head that I will draw. I got a hold of adobe flash program so definitely gonna play with that 8 D. l can spend hourss doing this stuff.


-Melody
 
More food from Roomie =)
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curried chicken
First midterm tomorrow! hurray, let's get it over with. and get on with more terrible studying. I'mma have a ball tomorrow studying for pharmacokinetics.

I need a good run after this. My legs are gonna atrophy anytime now.


-Melody