Back to Cornell for today’s entry in Top 200 Photos.

photo #154 is:

One day we were just walking around campus and just pulled into the stadium to watch some lacrosse. Unlike hockey, there was no fee and there wasn’t really anyone in the stands. So I practiced my sports photography with the team. I was into photo editing back them and I decided that this shot would be perfect for a cutout (selective colouring) because we were The Big Red and red is so vivid. I think it work perfectly with this photo. I think it’d look great in a book of Cornell sports photography (without my byline/watermark, of course)

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photo #155 is:

Ever since I moved to Baltimore, I’ve been in the city during Otakon, the annual anime convention. The first couple of times it was a complete accident. For the the past two years I’ve looked up the dates ahead of time and made sure to be there to take some photos. I haven’t yet bought a ticket, but almost all of them tend to spend some time outside and everyone’s amenable to photos. After all, they’ve spent as much as the entire last year working on their costumes in some. I usually have a great time enjoying all the awesome costumes and they usually do pretty well views-wise on flickr. So I know there are at least two more Otakon photos on the Top 200 Photos.

Today’s Top 200 Photo.

photo #156 is:

Which is weird because, at the time, it was my favorite photo of Danielle and she hated it.  And the weird thing is that, looking at it nearly 4 years later, I’m not as keen on it as I once was.  I can’t figure out what I loved so much then.  It’s so weird to have feelings associated with a photo change that much in just a few years.

There will not be a #158 because it is a photo that was already covered. (Moved up quite a few ranks much faster than I thought it would)

photo #157 is:

This is a photo from the only time I was the paid photographer at a wedding. The bride was the sister of one of Danielle’s coworkers and needed to work on a budget. Working that wedding taught me that I enjoy photographing weddings a lot more when I’m not the official photographer.

And now for a completely different climate in today’s Top 200 Photos.

photo #159 is:

This is from my Honeymoon outside of Cancun, Mexico.  I love finding examples of American companies in other countries so I had to take a photo of this McDonald’s in Playa del Carmen.  While we always make sure to eat local cuisine in whatever country we’re in, we also sometimes try out the American chains to see how they differ.  McDonalds in England, for example, out-mayonaises the USA.  And TGIF in England has ham rather than bacon on their potato strips.  And the Pizza Hut sauce over there tastes weird. We did not eat at this McDonald’s in Mexico.

We stay at Cornell for this entry in the Top 200 Photos.

photo #160 is:

This has to be in the top 3 most depressing photos I took at Cornell. There’s a certain beauty in the photo, especially now that I don’t have to deal with that weather anymore, but just remembering trudging up that hill in that unforgiving weather is enough to make me happy to have graduated.

Back to Cornell for today’s Top 200 Photo

photo #161 is:

Ah, the Cornell Arts Quad. It’s where everyone plays frisbee. It’s where a large portion of Cornellians go to class. I was really into panoramas at Cornell. If I had the technology in today’s software back then, I probably would have done even more of them.

When the Top 200 Photos started, my 200th most viewed photo had about 350 views. This one has 380, which is almost insane. After all -

photo #162 is:

Which is just another candid photo of Mai smiling - technically smirking. This time it was at the 4th of July BBQ

To a hacker conference in NYC for today’s Top 200 Photos.

photo #163 is:

Adrian Lamo is an ex-cracker (criminal hacker). He gained notoriety in 2010 for outing soldier Manning as the guy who’d leaked a bunch of info to Wikipedia. The funny thing is that, even though Manning mentioned leaking the State Department cables, it was just noted as a footnote at the time. Everyone was focused on the Afghanistan and Iraq leaks. Little did they know what a huge leak the cables would be towards the end of 2010. Apparently he saw Lamo as a fellow hacker and confessed the entire thing to him.

Today’s Top 200 Photos.

photo #164 is:

Just like the reflection of love photos, this was born of a boring weekend in Maryland. Danielle wanted to try some photographic ideas. She was partially inspired by a photo shoot she’d recently seen with Quentin Tarantino, but when those photos didn’t really come through, we went for some herion chic photos. The effect from the blinds started off as an accident, but ended up being something we really liked and tweaked to get just right.