Saturday, December 15, 2007

Life: This is a nice Saturday morning. (week 3, 15/365, jreyes)


Light, Life, and Love: This is a nice Saturday morning. (week 3, 15/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

A Howard Zinn book, a coffee, a blueberry coffee cake from Hobbies, it all makes for a perfect Saturday morning. This is a good start to a nice lazy Saturday. The mind and spirit is stimulated, while the body gets its daily caffeine fix.

Life and Love: This is a man enjoying 2 pictures of 2 famous Russians. (week 2, 14/365, jreyes)


Light, Life, and Love: This is a man enjoying 2 pictures of 2 famous Russians. (week 2, 14/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Dong was hella happy about the 2 famous Russians Ivan Drago from Rocky 4 and Yakov Smirnoff. Pure joy and love for these 2 Russians from the 80s when America had an enemy who could bomb us with weapons which would destroy the world 20x over. I miss the cold war, when drills to go under our desks could help you survive nuclear annihilation.

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Light and Life: This is a painting of a beautiful woman. (week 2, 13/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: This is a painting of a beautiful woman. (week 2, 13/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Karen's painting is just beautiful. This painting just has full of light and life. This is an amazing piece. She has only been painting oils in less than 3 months. This is a really soft, sensual, and seductive piece.

Light: The Lord's creativity reflected in His wonderous creation (week 2, 1/365, zucchiniboy)













Standing in front of Monument Valley in Arizona was one of those moments where I thought, "Wow. Our God is great." I love how the subtle light illuminates these sculptures that God made. During our trip to the Southwest, I couldn't help but reckon with how small I am and how big God is, and how beautiful He is.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Light: These are pigeons on Shoreline and El Camino. (week 2, 12/365, jreyes)


Light, Life, and Love: These are pigeons on Shoreline and El Camino. (week 2, 12/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

There is something peaceful about pigeons on a lamp post on El Camino Real, while I wait for a red light to turn green. The light and clouds today was amazing. People never look at the sky when they commute to work. They are too busy hurrying up to make it to a thankless, meaningless, and mundane job with low or no benefits, and to meet ridiculous unrealistic deadlines for products which will be obsolete in less than 5 years.

Light: This is black and white sunset. (week 2, 11/365, jreyes)



Light, Life, and Love: This is black and white sunset. (week 2, 11/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

This playing with light. and the monochrome with the Rebel XTi. This camera is sweet!

Light and Love: This is Jazz man, Jazz (Dexter Gordon). (week 2, 10/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: This is Jazz man, Jazz (Dexter Gordon). (week 2, 10/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

This is Jazz life. An album cover from Dexter Gordon. I just finished it and just needs some cleanup and what not.

Life: This is what happens when you are drunk and then fall asleep. (week 2, 9/365, jreyes)


Light, Life, and Love: This is what happens when you are drunk and then fall asleep. (week 2, 9/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Just don't get drunk and fall asleep right away. It's like rule #1. This is an important lesson in life.

Life: This is dessert (week 2, 8/365, jreyes)



Light, Life, and Love: This is dessert (week 2, 8/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Life needs dessert.

Light: These are clouds (week 1, 7/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: These are clouds (week 1, 7/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

A lovely set of clouds outside the Peet's coffee I go to every morning. I love going to Peet's to read before I go to work. It is good to slow down before the hustle and bustle of Silicon Valley. Currently reading A people's history of the US by Howard Zinn. It is very hard-core, border line Marxist book. But it is a great view on US history coming from the perspectives of poor white men, white women, blacks, immigrants, and especially Native Americans.

Light and Love: This is Tres Amigos (week 1, 6/365, jreyes)


Light, Life, and Love: This is Tres Amigos (week 1, 6/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Tres Amigos painting @ Red Rock Cafe in Mountain View, CA. I painted this about 1.5 years ago and it is up for sale. It is a part of my life as a night gig artist.

Life, and Love: This is a happy 1st birthday boy. (week 1 ,5/365, jreyes)



Light, Life, and Love: This is a happy 1st birthday boy. (week 1 ,5/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

A truly happy birthday. Why can't we all be this happy all the time. True and honest expression of joy and bliss.

Life: This is hurry up and take the picture. (week 1, 4/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: This is hurry up and take the picture. (week 1, 4/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

I love the expression here.

Life and Love: This is pancit. (week 1, 3/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: This is pancit. (week 1, 3/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

Being Filipino life revolves around good food from your Tita.

Life: This is I want to touch the lens. (week 1, 2/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: This is I want to touch the lens. (week 1 , 2/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

The curiosity of a 1 year old is awesome they want to touch everything. You want to experience everything in life.

Life: This is Ugly Doll and Brown Bear (week 1, 1/365, jreyes)




Light, Life, and Love: This is Ugly Doll and Brown Bear (week 1, 1/365, jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

An ugly doll painting for my nephew and his brown bear. Life for a 1 year old is pretty easy.

Some standards

Some Standards for labeling photos

Example:

Light, Life, and Love : This is ... (Week 1, 1/365, jreyes)


or

Example:

Light: A beautiful ... (Week 3, 16/365, jreyes)



So in computer science terms

<Light,Life,Love> : <some-title> (Week #, #/365, <author>)


Regards,
Jonathan

Introduction

This is a blog for "A photo essay: 365 days of light, life, and love". John 8:12 is a beautiful passage from the Gospel and is the inspiration behind this project.

John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."


The good book has these basic and important concepts in any of story in the Bible. The project is meant to be generic to capture these 3 concepts in a photograph. There is plenty of God given light, life, and life in our daily lives, we just sometimes need to take a photo to express, exhibit, and expose these concepts. We hope that you enjoy the pictures which we will take and also we welcome your comments, criticism, and community to make us better photographers. We are a part of Baylight Church Community (http://www.baylightchurch.org)


God Bless,
Jonathan and friends