Squirrel!!!!!!

These pictures were take at the Woof Boutique Atwater Village Halloween dog costume contest. We buy all our dog food, treats and etc. from Woof boutique. We try to support local businesses as much as we can.

I was surprised how packed this event was, over 50 dogs were present and about 80-100 owners. The event was stocked with water bowls and doggie treats. Woof boutique gave gourmet treats and a chew toy to all the dogs present which was incredibly sweet.

Bailey was dressed as a squirrel but he didn't win. Next year I will create my own costume for him rather than buy one. We saw another dog in the same squirrel costume, faux pas.

Oktoberfest

J and I usually trek to Alpine Village in Torrance to celebrate Oktoberfest with our friend Garrett. Our friend wasn't able to attend with us this year so we decided to find a local spot to celebrate Oktoberfest. We went to The Verdugo Bar Oktoberfest event and it was pretty good except for the annoying drunk people towards the end of the night. Our friends Tani & Craig were able to meet up with us at the bar earlier in the day. We had a good time and pledged to attend the event the next year.
The food was yum and beer was ok (I'm not big on beer). They had a cheese food truck and the cheesecake balls covered in graham cracker crumbs was amazing!!

Beer in a Stein!

cheesecake balls, yum!

Descanso Gardens

I took these pictures with my DSLR at Descanso Gardens during a field trip with my photography class. The class has ended as it was a three day workshop. I learned a bit more on shutter speed and aperture but still have a long way to go. My camera and I have a love hate relationship going on right now. I'm not fully aware of all its features and how best to utilize in different lighting.

These were some of my favorites:

50/50

Date night was last night! J and I went to eat at Trader Vic's, a tiki inspired restaurant, then we saw the movie 50/50. My other Hollywood crush is Joseph Gordon Levitt!



The movie was both funny and poignant. I laughed and I cried.

The Big Kahuna drink at Trader Vic's, very yummy. Too bad they didn't sell the glass it came in. I'm a sucker sometimes for novelty items.

Formatting on a DSLR can be BAD

Last night I took many pictures at my nephew's 5th birthday party. I almost lost all these images because of my stupidity!
Today was my first of three photography workshops. As my eyes were glazing over from the different lenses and DSLR terminology, I was tinkering with my camera. The instructor mentioned how downloading your files as tiff instead of jpeg would result in better quality images. So as I looked in the menu function of my camera, I was looking for information regarding picture format (tiff, jpeg). I ended up clicking on format and it WIPED out all my images! I was so exhausted after the party last night that I didn't download any of the party images, so in a flash (literally) all the digital evidence of the fun party was gone!
The last slide of the class was about the FORMAT button and how if you don't save the images before formatting then all data will be lost. Why didn't he have that as the first slide!!! I asked him after class if I could do anything and he and a class mate mentioned software that could recover the images. So I went straight to Samy's camera and left my memory card with them. A few hours later they called me with great news, they recovered the pictures!!

This photo gold would have never seen the light of day if it hadn't been for recovery technology & the good people of Samy's!