Holiday Lights

Nike World Headquarters

I ask Pokie to drive me to these spots, I am experimenting with high ISO and no tripod, I think this is the best I could do. In less than 10 minutes of taking pictures at the Nike headquarters. the security guard came and usher us out from the "private property", he just did not know I own a piece of Nike..ha..ha...ha...

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/lights.html

Autumn leaves, a study of abstract under the tree

A study of abstract under a tree

I met the neighbor who owns this tree, and he show me what he took using just a smartphone, so I asked at what time? He told me 1:00 PM but that was the daylight savings time, so when it was sunny at 11:30 AM, I walk to his house and snap some pictures.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fall6.html

Autumn - Series 5

SW Teal Blvd

This is my third website I created today, I think I have enough now. I saw it when I drove from a photo shoot. I asked Pokie to drive me here.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fall5.html

Autumn shot with iPhone 6S

SW 151st Street

I was restless, so I took a walk and I was presented with the fall colors, this time I did not bring my mirrorless camera. not a problem, my iPhone is in my pocket. Enjoy!

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fall4.html

Autumn on SW Brockman Street

In front of Southwest Hills church

When I saw it is cloudy I told Pokie that I am going to use the car for awhile to go to this spot that I have not taken the leaves. I almost gave up when the sun was out but briefly.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fall3.html

Autumn leaves on SW Murray Blvd

My canvas

I killed two birds with one stone this morning, walking about 1.7 miles and taking pictures. I just love it when the sun was hiding temporarily. The lighting is even and you can concentrate on taking pictures than worrying the shadows.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fall2.html

Fall colors in Beaverton

Autumn on SW Kilchis Street

I combine my Autumn Series (Beaverton) as they are a study of composition, Pokie helped me with the selection, I just added one more.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fall.html

Autumn 2019

Autumn 2019

For some reasons, autumn 2019 is the most colorful from the year past. I ask Pokie to drive me around town and she waits patiently while I take some photographs. I break it down into 3 series and I think I am satisfied.

Series1:
http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/autumn.html
Series2:
http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/autumn2.html
Series3:
http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/autumn3.html

I hope you enjoy the autumn 2019 colors

Giant Pumpkin Regatta

Tualatin

We first saw it on KGW last night, so we went to this event, although it is in our "backyard", we never know this event exist here. So we went despite the threat of rain all day.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/pumpkin.html

Autumn Trip to Canada

Gold Creek Lower Falls Trail

I am beginning to like iPhone to take decent images, I am thinking to upgrade to iPhone 11 which is just available last month. The colors are vivid and I am sure it is a lot better camera than what I use now.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/mapleridge/iphone.html

Minoru Park

Minoru Park at sunset

After a good dinner at Kirin Restaurant, we walked to Minoru Park just a block away, I have enough light to take some pictures.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/minoru.html

Banff and Montana

Sky Ridge Rach, Ronan, Montana

Instead of just going to the wedding that we are invited, I made a diversion to go to Banff again and have a mini vacation then we went down to Montana for the wedding.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/

Banff Gondola

Fourth floor observation deck

Now I am curious to find the pictures when we got here for the first time, it is still spectacular. We now summit Sulphur Mountain. The distance was 1.3 miles with 16 flight of stairs.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/gondola.html

Lake Minnewanka

Boat ride at Lake Minnewanka

I still remember the first time we came here with my first digital camera, I want to recreate what I saw but apparently things are not what I imagine. I still want to get the old image if I remember.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/minnewanka.html

Lake Moraine

Lake Moraine

Lake Moraine (dubbed the best lake in Canada), it is only a short drive from Lake Louise, but if I do not have a Handicap placard, I don't think that we could get in here, it has to be by bus. I would not recommend going here in the summer time, it is a zoo.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/moraine.html

Lake Louise

The view from Chateau Lake Louise

We came here either eighteen or nineteen years ago, but I still have a vivid recollection on how beautiful the turquoise water is. We are going down to Montana later to attend a wedding.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/louise.html

The Nuptial of Aaron Davis and Pam Potts

St. Ignatius, Montana

We made to Banff before the wedding, we figure we drove this far, mind as well we add a few hundred miles and we were on vacation as well.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/wedding.html

Banff and Montana by iPhone

Sky Ridge Ranch

We just came back from Banff and Montana, I am more interested in making the website from the iPhone first rather than from my mirrorless camera.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/banff/iphone.html

Oregon Coast Railriders

Returning from the 09:00 o'clock trip

We came here without planning or reservation, I thought Tuesday is a light day. but I was wrong. The 09:00 o'clock has gone for 30 minutes and the "noon" schedule is fully book. O well, at least we had a cooler weather as 90 degrees is predicted for Portland area.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/rail.html

Car Show 2019

Car show 2019 at SW Bible Church

We decided to wait until the sun goes down a bit, around 17:30 and walk to the SW Bible Church for the Car Show 2019.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/car.html

Hughes Water Gardens

One of the water gardens

When I saw the giant water lily, I remember that I had been here many many years ago, I did not remember how I found it at the first place. This is a neat place to bring your camera and start shooting. It was fun indeed to go back to this place.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/hughes.html

Natsu Matsuri

10th annual Natsu Matsuri (summer festival)

Kyokosan (one of my Japanese "teacher") reminded that July 27th. there will be Natsu Matsuri or summer festival sponsored by Yoshida Group and Uwajimaya Supermarket. So I put the date in my calendar, I made sure that I came in early to see the preparation.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/natsu.html

Abe in Seattle

Always kid at heart

When I knew that he will visit Seattle, I want to make sure that I arrange to meet him in person, so Abe gave me a green light to meet on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, the rest is history.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/abe.html

Snapshots

Torii of Itsukushima Shrine

These are a collection of snapshots from iPhone and from the Sony mirrorless camera, the images will added later on.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/snap.html

The Ramlis

Kyoto Tour

Well, we know Kyoto like in a back of our hands, at the end I have to pull all I know to go from point A to point B, as they want to see more and more.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/ramli.html

Worth a second look

Atomic Bomb (Genbaku) Dome

This website is about a second "look" worth displaying, it is an addition that I have to do. From beginning to the end of our journey.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/second.html

Hiroshima Catholic Church

07:30 Mass in Japanese

We just walk from our hotel to the church in less than 15 minutes. This church is dedicated to the victims of Atomic Bomb that was dropped on August 6th, 1945 at 8:15 AM. Pope John II was in Hiroshima on February 25th, 1981.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/church.html

Fukuoka - Old Town and New City

In front of Tochoji Temple

Fukuoka is a modern city with a flare of Old Town Hakata, this images are in search for the "authentic" ramen called GENKI IPPAI.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/fukuoka.html

Journeys in Japan - iPhone

Kurama Dera

This website is from my iPhone, I am thinking NOT to bring the mirrorless camera in the future but I still have doubt, maybe the heat and humidity makes me think that way, anyway enjoy the images.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/iphone.html

Ohori Park

Ohori Koen

Morning stroll without the heat is wonderful, then a little Japanese and a little English, we make friend with Yuki-san and her dog Rocky.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/ohori.html

Hiroshima Trams - Hiroden

Hiroden at Hiroshima Station

Just like a kid in a candy store, I click the camera shutter every time there is a movement of the trams, and I watch how these trams make an efficient way in and out from the main station. I also tried the ASTRAM Linem a rubber tired trams.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/tram.html

Atomic Bomb Dome

Atomic Bomb (Genbaku) Dome

I have never felt so sad in making a website before, somehow I have to make the story correctly, last night I was dreaming to include the picture of the survival, which I omitted yesterday when choosing the images. This is 1945 technology, can you imagine nowadays? I hope my website do the justice in telling the story.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/atomic.html

Iwakuni - Kintaikyo

Kintaikyo from the east side of the river

It is a challenging task to take photographs in the rain, Pokie has to hold the big umbrella while I compose and snap a few pictures, at time I can manage it by myself. It is raining the whole time when we were there, we found Kikko Park by accident.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/iwakuni.html

Miyajima, Itsukushima Shrine

Itsukushima's torii gate appears floating on a high tide.

The day started just cloudy, we are very lucky to be there very early before any tourists are destroying the view. it later rains and its so humid, I will not go to Japan during the beginning of summer months as it is the rainy season, it makes the travelling twice as tiring compared when it is cool weather.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/hiroshima/miyajima.html

Vancouver Waterfront, Washington, USA

Grant Street Pier

When I heard today is going to be so warm, I made a plan last night to visit Vancouver Waterfront, it is only 20 miles, so we go after the morning rush hour and go home before everybody uses the freeway in the afternoon. We had lunch at WildFin restaurant and it was good.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/water.html

iPhone images

Old and New

I will add as I take pictures with my iPhone, I just like the images that it can capture because "the camera" is always in my pocket.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/iphone.html

Azalea

Red Carpet

We miss to see this for many years now, finally we came this afternoon at the right time, no rain is a bonus, but when the sun is out, it creates too many unwanted shadow. Enjoy the "red carpet" in the spring. Happy Easter 2019.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/azalea.html

Fort Vancouver - by iPhone 6S

Fort Vancouver 

I am making a comparison between my Sony mirrorless and my iPhone 6S, my conclusion is iPhone images are more vivid, just do not use the digital zoom.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fort2.html

Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver (reconstruction)

Sometimes we tend to ignore National Park that is so close (just 13 miles from home), so that day we decided to drive to Washington State and explore the site. This complex is so vast that we might have to come back again some other day.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/fort.html

Kubota Garden, Seattle

Kubota Garden, early Spring 2018

These images lay dormant in my iPhone for a little more than a year, we were busy at that time for the preparation to go to Holland and Paris. When I look back on the images I realize that I have not made a website for it. I did not bring my mirrorless camera at that time since we were just walking around, it turned out this is one of the nicest Japanese garden in the Northwest.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2018/kubota.html

Cherry Blossoms 2019

Cherry Blossoms 2019

This morning I turned in my application for my retirement PERS, to celebrate that we went home and get the camera charged and we venture the neighborhood for cherry blossoms viewing or HANAMI in Japanese. Enjoy

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/cherry.html

Hawaii Trip 1997

Hawaii 1997

When Lilik asked me if I have Hawaii picture, I said I will search and convert the PRINTS into digital files. I use a smartphone and a cutting board, you should see it on the last picture of this website. What a memory

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/1997/

Sleepless in Seattle

Snoqualmie Falls

We went to Seattle to meet Felix (Pokie's nephew) then accompany him to drive back to Portland. We took Amtrak and surprisingly it was on time, beating the time of arrival by seven minutes.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/seattle.html

Visiting Daniel, Kimmy and Monique in 2008

Statue Liberty, New York

I always forget where is this website located, since way back then I was not very organize in term of FILE MANAGER, so I gave to put it here so that I can go back and remember the link. This was in 2008, the last time I saw my dear friend Daniel before the the brain tumor won over him, a trip that I will cherish, the memories of one week in New Jersey and Maryland.

http://yongkieandpokie.com/eastcoast/ec1.html

Caltrain, San Francisco

South San Francisco

When it comes to transportation, I always choose train over car or bus if I can, our hotel is situated next to South San Francisco station...yahoo..I chose that way and not by accident. The sky makes it perfect and the moon does the same thing at night,

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/caltrain.html

All we have is time

Oom Happy, Tante Elsa and me

I use my morning time to walk with them, I took them to the many trails and parks that I know in the past three years. We walk an average of two miles plus.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2019/happy.html

Poelang Kampoeng 2010

Borobudur 2010

I always do not remember the web address that I created almost nine years ago, so today I searched the "Luminate" and found it as "kangen2010", so here it is, what a memorable time we had, I went back two years later in 2012, and that was the last time I went back to Indonesia, my mom did not recognize me then and call me "Ping". Here's the website

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/kangen2010/