It’s A Binary World 2.0

Eric Mesa | July 31, 2009

Continuing my spotlight series with Mai.

People tend to really like my portraits of Mai, some of them are among my most viewed photos on flickr.

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Eric Mesa | July 30, 2009

A little series I’m starting with my favorite portraits for a particular person.

Dina facts:

Real Dina smiles are great smiles
Family is really important to Dina
Dina’s closest friends are practically family (see above bullet)
Dina’s pretty awesome on the piano, she doesn’t play for us often enough

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Eric Mesa | July 29, 2009

Danielle’s family came to visit so we did what we always do when company comes, we went to Washington, DC. Seriously, I don’t really know what else to do. If it were Florida I would have taken them to the beach. In NYC I’d take them to Manhattan and either just [...]

Category: Photography, family | 5 Comments »
Tags: Washington DC

Eric Mesa | July 28, 2009

I have as of a few months now, I have two 50mm prime lenses – the Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II.
I wanted to compare them to see if one is clearly better for another. After all, if I’m going to use a prime lens, why not [...]

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Tags: 50mm, prime lens

Eric Mesa | July 27, 2009

I wanted to see how I’ve changed as a photographer so I went to my first ten photos uploaded to flickr.  The two biggest changes are that I am now really into portrait photography (although mostly natural portraits) and not quite as much into photoshop.  My first two pages are mostly photoshop-manipulated photos.  The next [...]

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Eric Mesa | July 26, 2009

For the first time since moving here, I found out about Otakon ahead of time. Unfortunately, the economics didn’t work out we didn’t buy tickets. But I did go to hang out outside Otakon on Saturday to get some photos. Lessons learned:

Remember what you learned in Hawaii and don’t be afraid to [...]

Category: Baltimore, Photography, Video Games, anime | 3 Comments »
Tags: cosplay, Otakon, Otakon 2009, photo essay

Eric Mesa | July 25, 2009

Nam’s parents came to visit on Sunday and I captured some good shots of Nam. Here’s a small selection.

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Eric Mesa | July 24, 2009

I wanted to share some of my latest flower macro photos.

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Eric Mesa | July 23, 2009

Looking over my search statistics I saw the searches that had recently led to my blog.  Here are the most recent ones with comments on the strange ones:
mythtv totem
makehuman review
mario 64 3D model – I don’t think I’ve even mentioned this before.  I’ve written about Mario and 3D models, but not 3D models of Mario
“Rudy [...]

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Tags: search terms

Eric Mesa | July 22, 2009

Ever since I’ve known my wife I wanted to go to a Yankees Game. But we were often busy during the baseball season and neither of us are big ball fans. In fact, this was also my wife’s first Yankee game despite having grown up in NYC and rooted for the Yankees her [...]

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Tags: New York Yankees, NYY, photo, photo essay, Yankees

Eric Mesa | July 21, 2009

I am a huge listener of public radio programming, but I no longer listen to my local NPR station. Most of the time I just listen to podcasts of the shows that would otherwise be broadcast on NPR. The basic force behind this is the same as the reason why I loved my [...]

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Tags: National Public Radio, NPR, podcasts, radio

Eric Mesa | July 20, 2009

After our mini-vacation to Naples, we went to Hialeah, Fl for my grandfather’s 70th birthday party.  I wrote in May about wanting to capture photos of my grandfather at his birthday party.  I was definitely able to do that.

We got to the party way before my grandfather (it was a surprise party) so we could [...]

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Tags: Abuelo, Abuelo Sotero, birthday, party, Sotero

Eric Mesa | July 19, 2009

The Whitehouse has been posting the official photographer’s photos on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse .  They each have the following written in the description:
This official White House photograph is being made available for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any [...]

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Tags: Bara, Barack Obama, copyright, Obama, public domain

Eric Mesa | July 18, 2009

This is my new favorite photo.  It captures everything I’ve always loved in non-formal portrait photography and everything I’ve aspired to.  The emotions on display, the proper photographic technique, you just feel when you see this photo, especially with Christine’s huge laugh.  It’s also why I love non-formal portrait photography rather than the usual stand [...]

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Tags: New York Yankees, NYY, Yankees

Eric Mesa | July 17, 2009

Just four days ago, this photo was my 11th most interesting photo. Now it’s my second most interesting photo! Wow!  I wonder what factors contributed to this?  Surely the fact that it has risen quickly to already have 200+ views?

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