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peggy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:09:23 +0000

It’s been a wonderfully warm long weekend (much needed in Northern California where it’s been a strangely cold year until now), and as the 3 day weekend comes to a close, so does another chapter of our blog and website. We moved off one of those free blogs and onto our own blog (this blog) back in 2007 and have been maintaining both a blog and website. But the day has come where the two will become one. It’s like our blog and website are getting married =P.

For all our faithful readers and subscribers out there, thanks for reading, and you can keep up with us at http://jaytsaiphotography.com going forward (no need for the /blog/). All our website content will be integrated directly with our blog so you’ll still be able to find everything you’ve been looking for. You can probably already see it, but we’ve also taken this opportunity to freshen up the site a bit. It’s still the clean, modern look we love, but we’ve cleaned up some of the rough edges on our old blog, so hopefully our new blog-site is easier to navigate and use.

Ah…this is probably a good time to introduce myself as well. If you noticed this doesn’t sound like Jay talking, that’s because it’s not. It’s Peggy (his wife). You’ll be seeing posts from me on the blog going forward, as well as from Jay … so double the goodness and fun! Stay tuned for more…and don’t forget to update your links!

We are on FACEBOOK!

jay — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:45:33 +0000

Find us by “Jay Tsai Photography” and become a fan!

Raging Station Fire

jay — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:44:52 +0000

It was a terrifying sight to see the plume of smoke from the raging Station Fire in the LA area.

What happens after the photographers get home . . .

jay — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:00:16 +0000

I think I counted 48 rechargeable AA batteries, enough to cycle my 4x Canon 580 EXII 3 times!

I love this T-shirt!!

jay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:09:00 +0000

When I saw it in the store, I knew I had to have it! It’s too hilarious and appropriate!

By the way, you can find the T-shirt online here: Penguin Clothing

Go SHARKS!!!

jay — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:20:24 +0000

I am a HUGE San Jose Sharks fan, and this is absolutely the best time of the year! After the heart breaking loss to Detroit in last year’s playoffs, they are once again looking good going into the playoffs. I was sooooo excited about the start of the playoff season, and Peggy just came to the realization that the playoffs would be much longer than a couple of weeks, “So, if the Sharks win tonight, they move on to the next round, right? WHAT, it’s the best 4 out of 7 per round?” Sorry honey, I am going to be glued to the TV shouting like a mad man until … hmm … June when the Sharks win the Stanley Cup, of course!

Go sharkies!

Origami – A Little Mischievous Fun?

jay — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:53:05 +0000

For those of you who saw the wedding slideshow from Margie and Jim’s wedding, you probably remember what happened to the center pieces by the end of the night. They went from this:

to this

Many people (okay, mainly there was one…) helped out in the creation of the origami tree, and we all learned from this said individual how to fold other little fun objects besides the ubiquitous crane. Well, a few months later, the perpetrator… I mean, this friend sent out this lovely holiday card. She later told us it was the fruit of hours and hours of sitting in a not-so-informative training class for 3 days. I have to say, though, it’s nice to receive a beautifully handcrafted card like this… Thanks Amy! Oh, if you are interested in learning how the card was made and how to fold the penguin, click here

It’s Christmas in January!

jay — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:56:56 +0000

The combination of a new tax year and generous rebates from Canon prompted us to add more equipment, mostly adding to our backup equipment and getting ourselves ready for the upcoming weddings this year.

2x 1TB Western Digital Pro II External Hard Drives – FIREWIRE 800 rocks!

2x Lexar FIREWIRE 800 Compact Flash Reader – this adds to the two I currently have. I can now simultaneously download 4x compact flash cards at once, really important when I normally shoot about 12 to 16 CF cards a wedding…

Canon 5D and grip – Another backup camera. With all the rebates from Canon, this should come out to around $1700-$1800, a bargain compared to $2600+ last year. Canon is gearing up to introduce the next generation 5D, rumored to be this month. Can’t wait!

Canon 70-200 F2.8 IS – 2nd one. A great (and extremely heavy) lens, but a must for any wedding photographer. Now, both Peggy and I can have this fun lens to shoot with, no need to fight over it anymore!

Canon 24-70 F2.8 L – Lovely images, beautiful bokeh effects!

Canon 50mm F1.4 – (not pictured) not here yet, extremely shallow depth of focus, should make for some great effects

24″ monitor – the second monitor

2x PocketWizard Plus II – I want to introduce more off-camera lighting in my images this year

Tamrac 614 Bag – 2nd one, with 4 cameras and up to 10 lenses, this is desperately needed

Canon 580EXII – 3rd one (not pictured)

Hello World! I am here NOW!

jay — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:15:14 +0000

After using Vox for posting my blog entries in the past year, I’ve decided to move the blog to my own website!

Looking forward to more beautiful weddings, wonderful people, new adventures, and of course, photography!

You can find my old blog here: www.jaytsaiphotography.vox.com