Morning at the Symphony

Yesterday morning, I photographed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra during their rehearsal for a Chinese New Year celebration concert. I wasn’t sure where I was going to post these as they do not really fit Ride the Tempo’s content so I decided to post a few of my favourites here. The full set is available on Flickr.

Roy Thomson Hall
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Cho-Liang Lin
Yuja Wang
Dashan
Jian Wang
Long Yu
Cho-Liang Lin
Song Zuying

You can check out some rehearsal clips in my vlog.

Chinese New Year

Happy Year of the Horse! Here are some random photos I took over the weekend of celebrations:
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Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year 2014
Chinese New Year 2014

Batman is Unimpressed

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I decided to take this Batman figurine out of its packaging and take some silly photos.
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Batman is Unimpressed #1
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The Beautiful Destruction of Bubbles


Inspired by Andrea Kelly, I tried the taking photos of bubbles outside as they freeze thing today. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any bubble solution so I created my own with dish soap and water. The solution wasn’t really the best for long-lasting bubbles so if anyone has a better one (that preferably does not require glycerin) I’d love to know! These bubbles were usually gone within seconds and I was blowing them as well as shooting the photos so it was a bit more difficult. I recommend making someone else freeze their butts of with you if you want to try this.




Burger Socks

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For Christmas Nash’s little sister @immicaylaB got me these awesome burger socks by Sock It To Me.

IMG_2015I actually don’t own that many pattern socks and these are totally adorable so I decided to do a mini-shoot with them.

IMG_2061 For these photos I used the Canon 50mm 1.8 II lens. It’s difficult to use for selfies because it has difficulty auto-focusing. So basically I estimated by manual focusing and using a remote. This is the only full-selfie photo that turned out.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Window

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I’ve never done any of the Daily Post Challenges before on WordPress but this one just coincidentally fit with something I just shot. I captured Teddy eagerly waiting by the window for my sister to come home.

It’s so hard to leave him at home sometimes because we know how anxious he must be for us to get back. Whether it is 2 hours or 5 minutes, he gives us the same warm welcome when he sees us walk through the door. I really liked this shot because although it’s still, it captured the warmth and the enthusiasm he has when he is perched on the couch watching the world below.

Bottle Full of Stars


I had this jar of origami stars sitting in my room for the longest time. When I poured a few out for a photograph, a yellow star landed in this perfect position.

Also, one of the snowflake photos in my previous post somehow ended up on Flickr’s explore page. This is my first time on that page. Thank you all for your support!