Great Night

I have to park a few blocks away from my school, so my walk is not bad. It's not too far that if I'm so tired I dread it. And it's not too close that on a nice cool night, I'm able to enjoy a nice stroll. The other night was one of those nights. Great night for a walk. Some cool shots w/ my iphone. =) Enjoy.


That lil' speck is the moon.






Underpass.


This is the parking lot. You can see the San Jose Hp Pavillion where the Sharks play in the background. GO SHARKS! =)

~V

Graffiti I See

Guess what I saw on my way to school the other day? You guessed it! Some more art. On the same wall! Lol I thought it was kinda funny. This artist must really like this spot. It does get a lot of attention. It got mine. It's still pretty cool. Seems from the same era. U can tell how I was zooming past cuz the flowers are all blurry. Haha Anyway thought I'd share. Thx 4 visiting. =)





~V

Horses

I've always loved horses. Even when I was younger. They're beautiful animals. Never ridden. Always wanted to. I always say for my birthday I want to go horse back riding. And I never do. On my way to school I pass several country homes and they have horses. I'm jealous. I want a country home with horses! Haha.

~V

Saturday Farmer's Markets

As a routine, early Saturday afternoon's are spent at one of our local farmer's market. My Grandma and I stroll around and usually meet up with some of her daughters (my Aunts). I enjoy the farmer's market. Some cool stands. Things you can't find in stores. Lotta hand made stuff. Flowers. Colors. Lots of colors. I always have my camera with me. These are some photos I've collected over a cpl weeks. Enjoy.

It was like 80 degrees out but my Aunt bought my Grandma
a scarf. But she's a good sport. She posed anyway. =)

It's a chair!

Butterfly bead curtains.

Birds.

Baby pinatas.

~V

Graffiti I See

Here I is again. Let me start off by saying I apologize, for the limited few who actually visit my blog lol, that it's been a while. I've been lazy and busy. Mostly, I just haven't thought of things to blog about. But I've been taking pictures, as I usually do, of different things that catch my eye and I've been brainstorming about things I want to blog about. Even if not many tune it, I like to document it even for myself.

One brainstorm idea, at which I hope to keep up with, is a series I will call "Graffiti I See". There's plenty in the area I live. For the most part it's not interesting. Little gangster wanna-bees taggin' all over town bout what they 'claim'. Stupid s#!t. But every once and a while I find something cool. Something worth photographing. Couple weeks ago, I was getting ready for school, as I usually do. Got on the freeway heading en route, as I usually do... and I saw some graffiti that caught my attention. It was way cool. I wasn't able to snap it at that moment because its' like 4 seconds onto the freeway. My plan was to catch it the next day, HOPING maintenance hadn't noticed it yet and covered it up. So next day I remembered about it and got my camera ready before hand. Now I think I've posted before, about how I've gotten pretty good at taking pictures while I'm driving. I know, I know, I know....it's dangerous, but let me assure you I'm not speeding (even though I'm getting on to a freeway- its barely on the on-ramp so I'm not speeding quite yet anyway) and I'm NOT looking at what I'm shooting. I just sort of stick my hand out, wish myself luck that I get it and *CLICK*. Not till after do I check out what I captured. So I was pretty happy with myself that I got a pretty decent shot on my first try.

Here it is:

Whoever the artist was, past tense because it has been covered up since (you can see the cover-ups of past 'artists'), did a pretty good job. Kind of a random spot. But hey!, it was going to get noticed. It's a pretty busy on-ramp. It kinda looks like a huelga bird. Or one of those birds from an aztec calendar. This is the closest pic I could find online that resembles it.


Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. Until next session. (Much sooner I promise.) Have a good day! =)

~V

IME

So looking from my last post, which was Jan 4th, that was my 1st day of school. Well back to school. Again. Man I've been going to school forever. When's it gonna end?!?! Haha. Actually yesterday in class, my teacher made a comment giving me the impression that I'd have at least another 5 years of schooling to finish what I ultimately want to do. :o/ Whoa! But I can't worry about that right now. I need to concentrate on what I'm working on right now. And what's that you ask? My MRI Tech certification over in San Jose at the...


Yup. As of this week I've been going to this new school for one whole month! PHEW! It's been interesting and intense! Lots of info. Short amount of time. I feel like I've been going for a lot longer than I have been. I've made some new friends. I'm passing all my tests. We have one every week. In fact, last week I scored 100%! The only one in class too. I was muy proud to myself. ::cheers:: ::pats self on back::

It's pretty cool. We've been looking at alot of MRI/CT scans. Granted CT scans is not our expertise, but they're trying to get us familiar with structures in the body for us to be able to identify them later when we're taking the pictures. Check em out...

This MRI scan is a Coronal Plane of the head.
Meaning the 'cut' is dividing the head from Front/Back.

And this MRI scan is of a Transverse Plane of the head.
Meaning the 'cut' is dividing the head from Top/Bottom.

This is one of our handouts. We have to know all these little structures of the skull. From Cranial bones, to Facial bones, to all the little holes in the skull for veins/nerves to pass through. All sutures, grooves and dips, protrusions and punctures. And that's just the skull! You can see here we were labeling everything. Sheesh! And I bet you thought it was just one big ol' bone huh? WRONG!

Anyway, I'm learning a lot. And most importantly, I'm having fun doing it. It's interesting to me. I think I've always had it in me to do something in the medical field. And with my interest and hobby in photography, this combines the two.

Speaking of which; this is a tree I pass everyday on my way
to class. I've been watching it bloom. It's pretty. I really need to find one weekend where I can go around the city and take pictures.

So I'm enjoying it. Till next time. Hopefully I'll have some more pictures to post later. I need to go get ready for class. See y'all soon. =)

~V

Same Idea

I like to sleep. I do. But I like to get up early too. It feels good. You get more done. Today, unexpectedly I woke up early. Those days are not so much fun, but either way I was up. Had some errands to run. So I took advantage of the early rise. Ok not like SUPER early or anything. My errands didn't start till like 915am. But that's still rather early for me.

Anyway... I think God and I had the same idea today. We were up early and had things to do. But in the midst of it, we took in the art. Me, with my camera. He, with his canvas; the sky.

Looks like he took a giant paint brush (maybe a redwood
tree or something?), dipped it in the Caribbean Ocean and swept the clouds with it.

A whip here. A toss there. Parted the clouds there. Some swirl action here.

And maybe just ooooone big SWOOSH across the sky.

Just for fun. Just 'cause He can.

Ok, It's late. I start school tomorrow.
I should get to that sleep I was talking about. =)

Gnite.

~V