Finals week

It's finals week again. My first semester in grad school tells me do not take five classes in the same semester again.
At the same time, I am working on applications for next summer's internship.
another good news: I just got an email from PDN telling me that I've won an award from the recent sports photography context. The photo and award will be published on next February's issue.  

Anyway, I will be in Las Vegas next week after finals. I hope to see some friends and work on a story while I am there.

picture: Yesterday, I went to Gabby's practice yesterday and shot this photo. She will be competing in Vegas next week. Best luck to her.

CPOY and midnight basketball game

I watched the judging of this College Photographer of the Year contest, and I saw one of my submissions won an award of excellence in the portrait category.

Last night, the UNM men's basketball team plays a game against Davidson at midnight in Albuquerque. The Lobos participated in the ESPN's 24 hour college basketball marathon. They were down by 15+points at the end of the first half. And they made huge comeback and won the game 86-81.

Here's a picture of a Lobo player celebrating when there's 1.9 sec left in the game.

Weekend Soccer games

Last weekend,  I shot two days of New Mexico high school soccer championship games for the Santa Fe New Mexican. And I shot the UNM soccer game in the semifinal of the MPSF championship tournament.

Here are three of my favorite photos from those games

a few pictures from Eddie Adams Workshop XXV

Football New Mexico vs Fresno State

Football UNM vs FSU from Junfu Han on Vimeo.


I shot my first Lobos football game of this season yesterday.
so bad, the Lobos lost, but I looking forward to cover the rest of the season

summer slow

My summer began after the finish of my 10-page paper on Sam Peckinpah and his movies for my Western Film class. I took three summer classes, two graduate level ones.

I 've been working with my friend Adria to start a wedding photo business, and luckily we shot our first wedding last week with Kim and Mark. A lot of new things we learned, let's hope we are gonna do better.

butterfly

I caught this butterfly when shooting a baseball game today
since I haven't updated my blog in a long time, I finally got my admission letter from graduate school and a Cary Herz Photojournalism scholarship, Im looking forward to have some funding to do my personal projects in summer

joker

I took this photo after the first day of PBR at the Pit last Friday. The safety man rides his horse joker back to the parking lot. He told me that the horse was born ten years ago on April 1 that's why it is called joker.

St. Patty's Day

At the end of my spring break. I went to hang out with Mario for St. Patrick's Day. He told me the whole story of how he lost his leg and continued break dance.
We were drinking and talking about everything, I really appreciate this friendship.

Some updates about me, I got accepted into the art education graduate program at UNM which means I will stay in Albuquerque for another two year. But I'm also planning on going back to visit my parents next year which is exciting.

MWC diving championship

This weekend I went to Oklahoma City for the Mountain West Swimming and Diving Championships.
Gabby won the 1m and 3m champion on Wednesday and Thursday. I'm so proud of her!

Here is a picture I made during the platform diving today.

NOVA dance

I went to photograph the NOVA dance rehearsal at the Rodey Theatre last night.
There's a question I always wonder, can dance be photographed?
Dance is a movement, a continues movement
But photography can only freeze one moment,
how can it represent the whole dance?
I still don't know the answer.
But it reminds me the movement assignment I did in my sculpture class two years ago.
Can a piece of sculpture tell a movement/motion?
I think the answer is yes, because the movement or intended movement can be shown through direction, details, texture...

How about I say dance photographs are 2 dimensional sculptures?

Gabby's senior day

Gabby's senior day with UNM diving head coach Abel Sanchez

hurdle

I shot this photo with a new(old) camera I just got, @Albuquerque Convention Center  during the New Mexico Invitational

Mario, a work in progress

This is a personal project I'm recently working on about this guy Mario I met at the flea market during the UNM photo bootcamp two weeks ago, he lost his right leg 8th grade when he was playing football but with his passion in hip-hop, he teaches kids break dance with his friend Albert. What's more interesting is he lives 2 blocks away from my house.

I will keep updating this story.

2012

I took this photo when Gabby and I were driving on a country road in Michigan on New Year's Eve .

2011 is a great year for me, I did 3 internships, won 4 awards, received 3 grants....
I'm looking forward to all the challenges in 2012, graduation, grad school applications, internship, job, personal projects......