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Meerkat at the San Diego Wild Animal Park

Tags: CoolPix , Friday-Foto, meerkat, Photography

Wine Bottles at Mosby Winery in Solvang, California

John 15:5

I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing

Tags: CoolPix , Friday-Foto, grapes, Photography, Solvang, vine, vineyard, wine-tasting, winery

Wine Bottles at Mosby Winery in Solvang, California

It’s been awhile since I’ve written here, but I thought a good first post to jump back into writing would just be a simple posting for a cool photograph to share for Friday photo. I took this shot while on vacation using a flash to bounce the light upward and then back down on the bottles.

Tags: CoolPix , Friday-Foto, Friday_Foto, Photography, wine-tasting, winery

Ouzo kai Blouzo: Bottles @ the Greek Festival
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Skipping Waves: Oceanside
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Tags: CoolPix , Friday_Foto, Photography

Obey the law: Interesting parking scene in downtown Minneapolis
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Bubba Gump: Cool table (restaurant inside the Mall of America in Minneapolis
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Tags: Bubba-Gump, CoolPix , downtown, Friday_Foto, Mall-of-America, Minneapolis, parking, Photography, Travels

Kikí: Greek dinner
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Farmer: Andonis in Pyrgí, Chíos Greece
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Tags: Chíos, CoolPix , dolmades, farming, Food, Friday_Foto, Greece, Photography, Pyrgí, spanacopita, Travels

Tirí: “Cheese!” Children on a field trip to the Acropolis
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Widow: Widow sitting on her porch in front of her house in Pyrgí, Chíos Greece
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Tags: Acropolis, cheese, Chios, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, Greece, Photography, Pyrgi, tiri, widow

Heads Will Roll: Fish being cleaned at the Oceanside Pier
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Merry: Ride @ the San Diego County Fair
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Tags: amusement-park, beach, California, CoolPix , Del-Mar, fair, fish, fishheads, fishing, Friday_Foto, merry-go-round, Oceanside, Photography, pier

Greek column in the Stoa of Attalos, Acropolis

Tags: CoolPix , Greece, Photography, Travels

I have not posted anything in awhile. And even my Friday Fotos are kinda older.

Spit: My best friend’s son, Aiden, enjoying a watermelon seed spitting contest at the San Diego County Fair
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Ripples: Fountain in front of the Student Chapel, Pepperdine University
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Tags: CoolPix , faces, fountain, Friday_Foto, Friends, Pepperdine, Photography, portrait, ripples, water, watermelon

Blue Apotar: A decorative camera in a model home
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Powered by the Son: Sunset @ Mission Beach, San Diego, California
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Tags: beach, camera, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, Photography, San-Diego, sunset

Pourpa needed a new printer for school this year. So I gave him my inexpensive Canon PIXMA 1600 that I had bought for $50 awhile back. To replace the color printer, I also bought another $50 printer at Fry’s, an Epson Stylus R320 photo printer. It’s my first foray into Epson printing. Someday I hope to get this one if I ever start printing high-quality photos. But for now, this refurbished one is just fine for me.

Tags: Announcements, Canon, Epson, geek_stuff, Photography, PIXMA, Pourpa, printer, quick_links

Raining Candy: Raining candy from a Thomas the Train piñata
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Boats: Seaport Village, San Diego, California
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Tags: birthday, boats, candy, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, Photography, piñata, San-Diego, Seaport-Village

Abandoned: The unwanted two-wheelers in front of Flounders in Pensacola, Florida
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Lonely: Barren tree at the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve in Solana Beach, California
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Tags: bikes, CoolPix , Friday_Foto, lagoon, landscape, Pensacola, Photography, Travels, tree

Yesterday Josephine and I decided to start a photography business, mainly for shooting pics and home videos for birthday parties and other special occasions. I got the idea because my buddy John from high school asked me to shoot pics at his son’s 2nd birthday party last May. It was a lot of fun and very easy to get great shots of all the people, kids, and the star of the day.

So to start off, I thought I would first create a photoblog to showcase some of my best work. The photoblog will be slightly different than the repository of photos we store on flickr. On the photoblog there will be much fewer pictures since it will serve as a gallery/portfolio.

To create the new photoblog, I used the free open source photoblogging software called PixelPost. Then I used a free template and modified it using CSS and a little bit of HTML. As of right now, I only have one photo in the gallery, but I plan to upload more in the next few days and weeks and add some additional functionalities on the site, nothing major since I don’t know how to program stuff.

The only page not done on the site is the page that describes the services I plan to offer. It’s about 2:30 AM and I’ve been working on it all afternoon and evening (taking a short break for church). So the services page will have to wait until later.

The business and site name were kind of challenging to come up with. All the cool domain names were already taken like 1000words.com, photologica.com, inspiredimages.com :p (that’s a shoutout to my buddy Ennis). So I started looking at some Greek words since photography comes from the Greek word “fotografia”. And that’s how I came up with the name photo • teknis. You already know what the first word comes from. The second word, teknis, is the Greek word for “artist”. Thus, the translation… photography artist.

And so I present: phototeknis.com.

Tags: Announcements, Blogging, business, CSS, HTML, Photography, PixelPost, site_announcements, web_design