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Trip to Ocean Beach

15 Aug

So today I finally bring my trip from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean to a close.  Honestly the trip ended on July 26th when I got to San Francisco, but I wanted to actually get to the ocean before I count it.  So 3070 miles, 29 days, eight states, two states’ worth of license plates, vehicle titles, and DL/ID/registration/insurance transfers later, I’m finally bringing my transcontinental trip to an end.  Why didn’t I just head to Ocean Beach on the 26th you ask?  Well it was pretty simple, it was foggy and it just didn’t look as spectacular as I wanted it to be.  July 27th was pretty nice, but the car was starting funny and I took the entire day to wash the car from all the bugs and bird dung from my car… then three weeks worth of foggy, muggy, cold weather.

This afternoon’s sun was pretty refreshing after my earlier Facebook comment about how ironic Sunset District’s name really is when 90% of the year it’s too foggy to even watch a sunset at all.  But today, the view was spectacular, quite windy, but the skies were clear and people rushed out to the beaches to catch some rays.  I ended up driving up north just beyond where the Cliff House is.  Last time this place was still just a pile of dirt with random unpaved concrete sections.  Now it’s a nice paved trail that I wouldn’t mind coming back tomorrow and see where everything leads.  I also got some fantastic shots too.  Here’s a panoramic shot of the parking lot.

I started walking down the path, but it juts got way too windy and I just wasn’t wearing my usual trailing gear, so I headed back, but I snapped this great shot of the ocean before I left.

 
 

Brand new look, brand new site

08 Aug

I'm dedicating the first post of this new WordPress website to my last license plate in Florida. I will forever miss the half-price parking permits, the special parking zones, and of course... "J TAI" says it all. Too bad I had to surrender the plate when I transferred the registration to CA when I moved back. This picture was taken when I was in New Mexico on July 24, 2010.

So I finally ditched the old html site that I had on here before.  The look wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either.  Essentially, now that I’ve got a little bit more time, I thought I’d finally update the site that I haven’t really paid much attention to in the past few years.

Hopefully with this new WP site, which will be my third wordpress site I’ve set up myself from top to bottom, I’ll be able to share more information and cross post between my Facebook photos and regular photos I decide to post here.

Although I do post a lot of pictures on Facebook, many of the creative works and photography will be watermarked for copyright reasons.  I had a few things I had to consider when I did this.  First, since my creative portfolios have now expanded beyond personal works in which logos and registered trademarks are being thrown around, I cannot continue to publish on here with my old Creative Commons license as I used to on my old website.  Second, with the amount of images that are siphoned off via image search engines such as Google Image Search, image piracy has become a plague regardless of whatever copyright or disclaimer notice on the website’s footer.  Third, it came down to legal responsibilities.  With the expanding portfolio, I cannot keep posting my creative works without somehow undercutting my clients’ original trademark or copyright claims.

So, Copyright it is… hopefully the big X watermark doesn’t make the images I show too ugly… :\