06 Oct 2024: Oceanside Harbor Surfing

Posted on October 6, 2024November 27, 2024 by fotoikigai

I belong to the UCSD Photography Interest Group that meets monthly via Zoom. Each month has various photo themes and October's was "Shoot High or Low". Which means take photos at a perspective other than eye-level. I wanted to shoot...Read More

Apr 2024: Oceanside Pier Walk

Posted on April 17, 2024November 27, 2024 by fotoikigai

Oceanside California has a great pier to walk and enjoy the day. It's also a great area for street photography. So I took my Fujifilm XPro2 with 23mm lens out for a late afternoon outing. Here are some of my...Read More

2024 So Far…

Posted on March 26, 2024November 27, 2024 by fotoikigai

I've neglected my personal, photo-centric website, fotoikigai.com, focusing more on our other websites. Our travel blog - smallwanders.us - and the UCSD Photography Interest Group - ucsdphoto.group. So I've compiled some of my favorite images from late 2023 & early...Read More

UCSD PhIG Nov 2021 – Light

Posted on November 17, 2021March 26, 2024 by fotoikigai

This month's 'SeeingFresh.com' theme is Light. Light is essential to photography but having light be a thematic element made me (re)process photos a bit differently. Many color photos were processed as black&white since I find the removal of color often...Read More

UCSD PhIG Sept 2021 – Texture

Posted on September 16, 2021March 26, 2024 by fotoikigai

This month's theme from SeeingFresh.com is Texture.

UCSD PhIG Aug 2021 – Color

Posted on August 19, 2021March 26, 2024 by fotoikigai

This month's meeting's theme is a continuation of the themes preserted on SeeingFresh.com. This month's assignment is color.

UCSD PhIG Jul 2021 – Twisp

Posted on July 15, 2021March 26, 2024 by fotoikigai

I missed the UCSD PhIG-SeeingFresh.com theme assignment this month so I posted travel photos from my recent trip to see family in Twisp Wa. Food photography has never been something of interest to me except when posting a Yelp review....Read More

UCSD PhIG – May/Jun 2021

Posted on June 17, 2021March 26, 2024 by fotoikigai

We were traveling when the May Zoom meeting was scheduled and the campground did not have adequate wifi to participate. So photos from this May trip from Pismo Beach to Monterey were shared at the Jun meeting. I missed the...Read More