My 25 Favorites Photos of 2011

December 12th, 2011

2011 is come to be end soon in this month of December and yet before Christmas, I went to look 10,000 pictures that was photographed from my camera len by shooting myself and few of my friends. I have narrow down to 74 photos as runner-up and chose twenty-five photos selected by me as my favorite.

Here are fun trends: I travel 5 different places, along with 14 states in year 2011 by foot, road and on air. Most photos I took in one place:

  1. Yosemite Nat’l Park, 9 photos.
  2. Utah, 6 photos.
    • Arches Nat’l Park, 3 photos.
    • Bryce Canyon Nat’l Park, 2 photos.
    • Canyonlands Nat’l Park, 1 photo.
  3. Pittsburgh, 3 photos.
  4. Arizona, 2 photos.
  5. San Francisco, 2 photos.
  6. Ohiopyle State Park, 1 photo.
  7. Shenandoah Nat’l Park, 1 photo.
  8. Las Vegas, 1 photo.

Rounded out of top twenty-five photos, two national parks of Zion and Capitol Reef in Utah didn’t make the cut.
 

It’s interesting that I spend most of time photographic the landscape, rather than city.  Here is the trends of Nature vs Man-Made:

  1. Nature: 19 photos, 76%
  2. Man-made: 6 photos, 24%

 

Also, i noticed that I had two photos of myself in twenty-five best.  Is there a living things, including mammal, plants, etc in the photos:

  1. Yes: 12 photos, 48%
    • Humans, 10 photos.
    • Insect, 1 photo.
    • Animal, 1 photo.
  2. No: 13 photos, 54%

My Utah vacation

August 23rd, 2011

My partner and I traveled in 11 days – from July 25, 2011 to August 4, 2011 drove through five states, mainly mostly in Utah. One of most top priority was we explored five national parks and few spots while en routing from one place to another.

Here is the fun stuff to rank his personal favorites in entire vacation:

Top 3 Adventures:

1. Arches National Park
Balanced Rock silhouette

2. Bryce Canyon National Park
Welcome sign

3. Zion National Park
Zion East Entrance sign

TOP 3 Hiking:

1. Navajo Loop / Queens Garden Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park

2. Devils Garden Primitive Loop Trail, Arches National Park

3. Observation Point Trail, Zion National Park
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Top 3 Sightseeing:

1. Delicate Arch in sunset, Arches National Park
David in front of Delicate Arch

2. Mesa Arch in sunrise, Canyonlands National Park
Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park

3. Wall Street in Navajo Loop Trail, Bryce Canyon National Park
Tall Pine Tree between walls

Lastly, you can take a look ultimate photos of my Utah vacation in my Flickr set.

FLICKR: His Most Favorited Photo

August 17th, 2011

Being Flickr member since June 2004, this splendid nature image, Morning Glory Pool at Yellowstone National Park was taken in June 2010. This photo image has become his most favorited photo – 47 favorites and counting today.

Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park

What is Flickr’s Favorite?
Favorites are photos by other people that you want to bookmark in Flickr, so they are easy to find later. Source

MOON PITTSBURGH travel handbook

July 23rd, 2011

I would like to share with you about the photo published in the front cover of the book and went on sale on July 2011. This handbook is second edition of MOON PITTSBURGH, not confuse with first edition (published in 2007) with similar design and different picture in the front cover. My name is credited in the last page of the book.

Here is full info:
MOON Handbooks – Pittsburgh
Second Edition
MSRB: $17.99
Avalon Travel
ISBN: 978-1-59880-730-1

This photo is seen from the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood monument, “Tribute to Children” in Roberto Clement Park and behind Heinz Field.  This photo was taken in November 2009, same day as monument opened.  The original photo can be seen in Flickr photo sharing web site.

 

The author discovered this photo in Flickr while using Flickr search filter settings with Creative Commons attribution and word keyword search.

Also, my three pictures credited by my name inside the handbook printed with black and white:


Flickr Gallery: Sign Language Wonders

December 24th, 2009
Scrumptious love

As Christmas Eve is around today, I wish you the Merry Christmas, and I made the short project gallery to select most of my favorite pictures by Flickr users titled, Sign Language Wonders. This is the eye-candy treat for your Christmas to bring the best merry of all.

What I wore Halloween dress (2009 version)

October 31st, 2009

I wore the Halloween costume at his friend’s Halloween party:

David as Luigi


The reason I am Luigi: I am tall, skinny guy and LOVES Nintendo. Fits my personality.


Other than that, 2003′s Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour for Nintendo GameCube gaming system, you might not miss Luigi’s celebration after birdie the hole:


Luigi wins birdie, gives him a joy gesture and mentioned that it appears to be similar to a sign language symbol shown in the 1994 Random House Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary:

Who ever want to see my highlights?.

Deaf Accessible Health Information in Pittsburgh

June 3rd, 2009

Pittsburgh Health Information home montage

Western Pennsylvania Health Information for Deaf, Deafblind and Hard-of-Hearing website launched in evening of May 27, 2009.

The website address is: www.healthbridges.info.

The description:

A newly developed website seeking to provide reliable health care information to people who are Deaf, Deafblind and hard-of-hearing, in a format that is accessible to all. In addition, it is our desire to encourage effective communication between healthcare providers and patients by educating both about individual perspectives, rights, and obligations in the healthcare setting.

All of you know who I am writing in very blog here, I developed healthbridges.info site with a team of our deaf task force in Pittsburgh. The site is 100% powered by WordPress, web publishing platform, to ease my development work in my spare time.

I learned something new in my web environment which I never thought of: Deafblind. My priority goal is to have this website is 100% accessibility. I used the free evaluation web tool, WAVE – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool to track down the accessibility errors and fix in our web site to ensure this is full accessibility for all – especially Deafblind.

I am very grateful to have my learning experience with group of deaf task force, shared the feedback, discussions, and challenges.

Nelson does ASL fingerspelling in ‘The Simpsons’

April 26th, 2009

The Simpsons: Season 20, Eposide 17. Aired on April 19, 2009. Titled: The Good, the Sad and the Drugly.


Runtime: 22 seconds.

Nelson Muntz does his ASL fingerspelling: “Haw Haw!”.

Anyone noticed the yellow-skined human genes in Simpsons only have four fingers?

Greatest Play in Super Bowl XLIII

February 5th, 2009

Holmes game-winning is memorable and awesome. James Harrison 100-yard interception touchdown return is far and the most unique play I ever seen in my lifetime in Steeler glory.

Incredible. I can’t recount how much this play describle. An unbelievable play that many will say changed the course of the Super Bowl.

With less than 20 seconds left in the 2nd quarter on the Cardinals goal line, just moments away from the scoring, James Harrison intercepted Kurt Warner’s pass and runs from the goal line to the next for a 100 yard touchdown. A new Super Bowl record for longest yard. Later in the game, the play resulted the Steelers won the Super Bowl.

Here are the essay of greatest play, via Mondesishouse.com:

Pre-snap Reads:

- Cardinals three receiver shotgun set, one right, two left, with left sidecar halfback going towards the Cardinals end zone

- Steelers two down lineman, three defensive back/linebackers showing blitz, three man-to-man defensive backs on receivers, a safety & two linebackers in midfield zone

(clock is right, followed by play-by-play, with ball placement left)

00:18 #13 Kurt Warner hikes ball; Steelers rush #25 Ryan Clark, #56 Lamar Woodley, & #94 Lawrence Timmons (Pit 2)
00:17 #91 James Harrison intercepts #13 Warner’s quick slant pass intended for #81 Anquan Boldin (Pit GL)
00:15 #74 Reggie Wells 15 yard facemask of #94 Timmons (later declined); #94 Timmons puts the first block on #74 Wells (Pit 8)
00:14 #51 James Farrior blocks #81 Boldin out of the chase (Pit 16)
00:12 #25 Clark blocks #63 Lyle Sendlein; #26 Deshea Townsend blocks #13 Warner (Pit 26)
00:11 #56 Woodley blocks on #34 Tim Hightower (Pit 36)
00:10 #24 Ike Taylor boxes out #82 Leonard Pope, both run into #26 Townsend & #13 Warner; #91 Harrison runs through a falling #13 Warner (Pit 42)
00:09 #43 Troy Polamalu bumps #11 Larry Fitzgerald off-balance; #99 Brent Keisel blocks #75 Levi Brown (Ari 47)
00:08 #26 Townsend slows down #11 Fitzgerald; #94 Timmons blocks #74 Wells forcing #11 Fitzgerald to dodge out of bounds(Ari 41)
00:07 #56 Woodley blocks #34 Hightower as #91 Harrison sidesteps(Ari 34)
00:03 #69 Mike Gandy falls short of making the tackle as #25 Clark falls into him (Ari 9)
00:02 #91 Harrison is caught & wrapped up by #11 Fitzgerald & then #15 Steve Breaston (Ari 3)
00:01 #91 Harrison falls on the legs of #11 Fitzgerald into the Steelers end zone (Ari GL)
00:00 Touchdown is signaled by official #9 Mark Perlman; Replay Assistant challenge, play Upheld, Touchdown Steelers, 17-7.  End of First Half.

(10) Cardinals involved in interception return; #’s: 11, 13, 15, 34, 63, 69, 74, 75, 81, 82
(8) Steelers involved in interception return; #’s 24, 25, 26, 43, 51, 56, 91, 94, 99
Steelers breakdown by influence: 24:1, 25:3, 26:3, 43:1, 51:1, 56:3, 91:5, 94:4, 99:1

Phenomenal. Pittsburgh Post Gazette declares the name of play, ‘Immaculate Interception’. Similar the word of play came from NFL greatest play in history, Immaculate Reception.

Also, don’t miss the excellent NFL Films video: SB XLIII anatomy: James Harrison’s 100 yard dash.

My Personal Best Photos of 2008

December 29th, 2008

This is my 7th annual top 25 personal choice images in year 2008, I dumped twenty-five photos into my Flickr set.

Also, don’t miss checking out my annually top 25 images between 2002 and 2007.