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7/10/10 – Paris, France – A scenic view of the Camps Elysees from atop the Arc de Triomphe.
For five weeks this summer I was backpacking through Europe with my brother. With the Eurorail passes that we had we were able to travel anywhere in Europe that the trains went. We went to Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Munich, Venice, Rome, Siena, Florence, Nice, Montpelier, Barcelona, and Madrid. Check out the video recap below that I made for our trip. If you want to take your time and go through the photos that I took you can view them here. Enjoy!
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7/10/10 – Paris, France – Leonardo DiCaprio signs autographs at the Paris premier of Inception.
My brother and I just happened to walk by this. We saw a huge crowd of people and headed over to check it out. I got on his shoulders to see what was going on and soon after the cast of Inception was walking around and signing autographs.
7/13/10 – Amsterdam, Holland – Thousands of Dutch soccer fans celebrate the return of their national soccer team and second place finish at the 2010 World Cup.
We got up that morning and started walking around the streets just to find that everywhere we went there were hundreds of people dressed in all orange wandering around. I knew something was going on but every time we followed a big group of people it didn’t really lead us anywhere. We almost gave up but after following the right group of people we were led to a huge park where a celebration was going to be held later in the day. We had a few hours before the start of the celebration so we took a tour of the Heineken Brewery, and when we came back the park was packed.
7/29/10 – Venice, Italy – Two gondolas was docked and covered from the gloomy weather while a gondolier in the distance paddles by.
Venice….definitely didn’t need four nights here…but its still a beautiful place and I have the photos to prove it.
8/4/10 – Florence, Italy – The amazing sunset view from the famous square, Piazzale Michelangelo.
8/6/10 – Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italy – This is the hostel room that we stayed at in Riomaggiore when we visited the Cinque Terre.
It looks a little messy, but that what happens when a bunch of girls do laundry and there aren’t clothes lines to hang stuff on.
8/10/10 – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain – At one the most famous skateboarding street spots, the MACBA, police arrive and kick everybody out. No matter where you are some things just never change…
5/23/10 – Irvine, CA – UC Irvine freshman Pratik Panda gets in the right mindset as he poses for a portrait.
On the same day as the fencing photoshoot, I also had another photoshoot. Once again I wanted to shoot something unique that doesn’t usually get much recognition. I have always loved playing ping pong and for part of this past year it got pretty big in my dorm between a few of us. I have always seen photos of actual ping pong matches but had never shot one myself so I attempted to create the perfect illustration. I set up a backdrop behind the table, two lights from the sides and big soft box right above my head. After some spray on sunscreen, water, and natural sweat, we were able to get a nice glistening on the skin. This photoshoot was prompted by the 2010 UCI Photolympics.
We even tested out spraying water into the shot, which had potential but didn’t work out.
My friend and fellow photographer Lee was there to help me set up equipment and also stand in as a test subject.
5/23/10 – Irvine, CA – Jessica Enriquez keeps her eye on the ball during the ping pong photoshoot for the 2010 UCI Photolympics.
I usually like to get both a female and male subject for most of my photoshoot sometimes one might just look more natural than the other. I think Panda looked a little more natural and fierce in his photo but I still liked this one too.
Below is a shot of the kids from the dorm who came out to help.
5/23/10 – Irvine, CA – UC Irvine Fencing team member Alex Helmintoller poses for a portrait.
When the 2010 UCI Photolympics were happening I knew that I definitely wanted to enter the max amount of photos in the portraits category. I like shooting athletes and I wanted to do something unique. Luckily Alex from my dorm was on the fencing team at UCI and was willing to help me out with my photoshoot. He brought all his gear and we headed out late one night to shoot these photos. I also wanted to get a female subject wearing the outfit just to see what it would look like, so Jaclyn Wang also accompanied us on the shoot. The photos of Alex and Jaclyn both turned out great, but I could only select one to submit so I went with the one of Alex. Below is the shot of Jaclyn, along with a shot of our crew for the night.
Melly Lee - Scott theres are beautiful! Come back to socal soon 🙂
ChrisSin - Nice shot of Firenze!