Category: Story Telling

A couple weeks ago, I went to the beach at Half Moon Bay. I was eating at an outdoor table by Barbara’s Fishtrap and snapped this picture of this family playing with their dog. I observed from a distance – as the mother stayed back in her cozy jacket, her kids were running and laughing …

This is an old CRT TV that I bought for one of my films during the summer. Although I didn’t always have it and I wasn’t the one who purchased it when it first came out on the market, I see it aging through my eyes. I feel like people often think about living things …

I snapped a picture of this lamp in my house that my family got at Grand Canyon many years back. It was a long summer road trip in 2014 where we visited many National Parks – Yellow Stone, Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, Death Valley… I remember seeing many Buffalos crossing the street and broken pieces of …

Ever since I heard the term “Tree of Life”, I resonate New Beginnings with trees. One of the most ‘New Beginnings’ in my life was when I moved to the United States at the age of 7 from Tokyo, not knowing how to speak or understand English at all. I did not know what to …

A few weeks ago I was at one of my friends, Sofi’s house to hang out. It was my first time going to her house so I did not know what to expect. The first thing that struck my attention were the instruments displayed on a coffee table next to the couch. One was a …

I captured this photo when I saw two people sitting together on the bleachers watching the football game during a beautiful sunset. The colors of the sunset really set the tone of a love story and how they were sitting together side by side. Since the sunset light was towards them, I was able to …

Every night as I work on my homework in my room, I look through my window and see a beautiful sunset. As it gets darker I see my neighbors turn their outside lights on. Sometimes they sync together and other times they come on at different times. I really wanted to capture how I saw …

A couple months ago, I took a personality test and one of the things I learned about myself was how I was an observer. I remembered then, that I was told at a young age I noticed things with my eyes that average people don’t tend to recognize in their daily lives. It was always …