Photos: Candy Stick

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M & M candy stick

Photo note: The light source for this picture was mixed as it came from the chandelier of the dining room, which had both fluorescent and incandescent bulbs among its lamps. Fluorescent lighting produces a greenish hue while incandescent lighting yields a yellow-reddish hue.

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Close up view of the cluster of M & Ms on the candy stick

Photo note: The sole light source for this picture was a flash mounted on a lightstand to the left of the camera, whose illumination passed through a white shoot-through umbrella. Notice how much whiter the dish and the candy stick looks compared to the prior picture.

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Cousins Lydia and Nelly are enjoying their treats.

Note: During Nelly's visit, she wanted to try out a number of American foods, including candies.

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Lydia is eagerly munching on her M & M candy stick.

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Both Lydia and Nelly give the thumbs up sign to indicate how tasty their candy treats were.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 7, 2010 in the dining room of our home.

Photos: Korean BBQ

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Spoon and chopsticks are the necessary tools to use for a Korean barbecue meal.

Photo note: Nelly Wee, one of SiowFong's nieces, used SiowFong's Canon G11 digital point and shoot camera to take these pictures. People often believe that a bigger, more expensive camera automatically takes better pictures, but that assumption is not always true. As important as the camera is to the outcome of the image, even more important are the creativity, vision, and proficiency of the person using the camera to capture the picture.

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Daughter and mother

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The large Korean barbecue spread is cooking on a grill at the table.

Note: Each Tuesday during Ma Wee's visit was "Girls Night Out", and tonight's theme was Korean food.

Note: Nelly Wee took all of these pictures on October 5, 2010 at Kaya, a Korean restaurant, in Shoreline, Washington.

Photos: Ballerina Lydia

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Lydia's favorite ballerina portrait of the ones that Nelly made of her

Note: Nelly Wee, one of Lydia's cousins who is visiting us from Singapore for seven weeks, has developed a keen interest in photography. Today was her first exposure to doing some portrait photography in a studio setting with one of her favorite subjects, Lydia.

Photo note: A folded canvas background has wrinkles (please see the rest of the images below), so to remove the wrinkles required time in Photoshop.

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Lydia does the splits, which is called a star step in ballet terminology.

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Lydia is attempting an arabesque.

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This ballet outfit is a gift from May Li.

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Princess Ballerina

Note: Nelly Wee took all of these pictures on October 4, 2010 in the upper landing area of our home.

Photos: Lydia Class Portrait 2010

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SiowFong scanned one of Lydia's portraits in a package that we purchased from the photographer who took it at her day care.

Photos: Pillows Galore

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Lydia is lying on one of the sixteen pillows that Nelly Wee, one of her cousins, made for our family during her seven week visit with us.

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Pillow maker Nelly, Lydia, and Tiger

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Lydia is looking at a picture book while resting on some pillows.

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La primas

Note: Prima is the word for female cousin in Spanish.

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Pillows galore!

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 3, 2010 in the upper landing area of our home.

Photos: With Nelly

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Group picture in front of future home

(left to right): Nelly, Lydia, SiowFong, and Tom

Note: During her visit with us, Nelly helped with some of air sealing and insulation at the new home around the windows and in the crawlspace at the rim joist and at penetrations between the crawlspace and the first floor. Caulk, canned spray foam, and pink board (extruded polystyrene rigid foam) were some of the materials that she used.

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Nelly is feeding Lydia some milk in a bottle.

Family room of our current home

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Group picture in the dining room of our current home

first row, left to right: Ma Wee, Lydia, SiowFong, and Tammy Yap

second row, left to right: Nelly, Tom, and Steven Chew

Note: As Nelly would be returning soon to Singapore, her home, we invited the Chews (Steven and Tammy) to our home for a meal. During Nelly's visit, the Chews had met her at our home and had volunteered with her at our future home doing the airsealing and insulation tasks in the crawlspace and the attic. We are indebted to Nelly, Steven, and Tammy and a number of other friends from Shoreline Community Church who helped us with these extra duties at the new house.

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 3, 2010

Photos: Granite Falls Fog Out and Lunch in the Van

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Ma Wee is getting ready to eat her Subway sandwich.

Photographer: SiowFong

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SiowFong is munching on her sandwich.

Photographer: Tom

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Here is Tom's sandwich.

Photographer: Nelly Wee

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Cousins Nelly Wee and Lydia are enjoying their lunch.

Photographer: Tom

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Nelly and Lydia

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Jump!

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 2, 2010 during our trip to Granite Falls, Washington.

Photos: Carnival Pony Ride

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Lydia and Nelly Wee are standing beside a pony.

Photographer: Tom

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Lydia is ready for the start of her pony ride.

Photographer: Tom

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Ma Wee (in the background) looks at Lydia, who is sitting on a pony.

Photographer: Tom

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"Little Buccaroo"

Photographer: SiowFong

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 2, 2010 at Railroad Days in Granite Falls, Washington.

Photos: Carnival Game Time

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Lydia's dad is getting ready to throw a dart at a balloon.

Photographer: Nelly Wee

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Nelly, one of Lydia's cousins, is preparing for her dart toss.

Photographer: Tom

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Lydia shows the prize she won in the dart toss booth.

Photographer: Nelly Wee

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Nelly watches as Lydia concentrates on which balloon she is trying to hit.

Photographer: Tom

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This array of stuffed animals shows the prizes available to the contestants.

Photographer: Tom

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 2, 2010 during Railroad Days in Granite Falls, Washington.

Photos: Carnival Car Ride

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Lydia is waving to her father, who took this picture.

Note: Lydia enjoyed the rides for the children at the Railroad Days celebration in Granite Falls.

Photographer: Tom

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Smiling Lydia

Photographer: Tom

Photo note: The 70-200 mm f/2.8 lens is a favorite among photojournalists, portrait specialists, and wedding photographers because of its ability to isolate subjects from their environment when the lens is used at large apertures (2.8 or 4).

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Lydia is driving a two-seater car.

Photographer: Tom

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Lydia is looking at her mom.

Photographer: SiowFong

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 2, 2010 during Railroad Days in Granite Falls, Washington.

Photos: Carnival

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Family picture

Photographer: Nelly Wee

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Lydia is standing in front of a picture of a tiger.

Photographer: Nelly Wee

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Mom, daughter, and cotton candy

Photographer: Tom

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Lydia is holding her cotton candy in front of the railroad car where the cotton candy is sold.

Note: The first Saturday in October is Railroad Days in Granite Falls, and 2010 was the 42nd year of the event. After our drive to Granite Falls to see the scenery, we stumbled upon this celebration, so we stopped to see what was happening.

Photographer: Tom

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Ma Wee and Lydia

Photographer: Tom

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Photographer: SiowFong

Note: All of these pictures were taken on October 2, 2010 during Railroad Days in Granite Falls, Washington.