365 Day Challenge Day 15 - What the Dog Saw

365 Day Challenge Day 14 - The World in Light

365 Day Challenge Day 13 - Arches National Park

@Arches National Park, taken with Canon SD450 Point and Shoot.

365 Day Challenge Day 12 - Hong Kong

@Hong Kong

365 Day Challenge Day 11 - Self-portrait

Self portrait

365 Day Challenge Day 10 - The Red Square

@ the Red Square, Russia

365 Day Challenge Day 9 - Make up

A makeup artist's room is more complicated than an airplane cockpit.

365 Day Challenge Day 8 - Group photo

Sometimes, you just can't beat a good ol' group photo.

365 Day Challenge Day 8 - Weeds

Many people dislike weeds due to their aesthetics, but I admire them for their resilience.

365 Day Challenge Day 7- Window Seat

If a flight is longer than 5 hours, I always get the aisle seat and the window seat for anything less.  The reason is to take pictures next to the window, but if the flight is too long, I'd rather sacrifice photography for comfort.  Normally, I'd never do this but I've been on a plane enough times (my passport is 2 years old and it's almost half filled) that I usually don't see anything new outside, so comfort it is.  But on a rare occasion, I do see something new and pleasant.

Scene from an airplane, near Hong Kong International Airport.

p.s. Between a window aisle seat and the middle aisle seat in Boeing 747, middle aisle seat is slightly better.  On a window aisle, two people will need to pass through you, while only one person will do that on a middle aisle (the seating arrangement is 3 window - 4 aisle -3 window). 

p.s.s. I do remember a 747 with 5 across the middle, but I don't see those any more.

365 Day Challenge Day 6

Albert performing near Japanese Cultural Center, Little Tokyo.

A never been seen footage of Albert.  If he becomes a superstar, I hope this picture will be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

365 Day Challenge, Day 5

My classical guitar.  I've played all types of guitars (trust me, when I say all types, I mean it), and it never occurred to me that I should try classical.  Currently, it's my favorite instrument.

I've been living for 30 years, and even if I live for 300, I will never be able to understand music.  Why is it that major chords sound so happy?  Why is that you change a single half note, to a minor chord, and you suddenly feel dejected and melancholy? 

For most of you, 100% of music that you've ever heard, from twinkle twinkle little star to the most complicated jazz piece to Justin Bieber, involves just 12 notes.  Just 12!  And most of those songs only use 7 of those notes.  What kind of prose can you write with 12 words?  How many foods can you make with 12 ingredients?  Music is incredible.  And sometimes, it's more prudent to enjoy something rather than to try to make sense out of it.