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Period 2

Hanson Wang

I like how this photo was taken as if the baseball is a giant. 

Period 3

Jason Stiltz

I like how this photo was taken, since it shows a very vivid description of the butterfly drinking the nectar. 

Period 4 

Kush Patel

I like how this picture was taken, since it shows a panorama of the beach and the rest of the island in addition to the front of the boat he stood on when he took this photo.  

Photo Story

The first picture is of the sunset I took at a beach club in Kona. Since, the time in Kona is three hours behind the time in Fremont, the sunset happened only a couple of hours after landing at Kona. 

The second picture represents a sacred historical park that I visited with my family the next day. This shows an ancient game that resembles a board game. 

The third picture is of me going to South Point later on that day. This is a popular site, where there is a site for jumping off a cliff for a forty-foot dive into the Pacific Ocean. I did not do that, since I just went snorkeling earlier, and I did not bring a spare pair of swimming trunks, and plus, the cliff was pretty rocky, and I could not afford to get injured during this trip. 

This fourth picture is of me at the top of Kilauea, one of the five main volcanoes in the Big Island. It is close to Hilo, and its summit is at an elevation of 4,091 feet. It is an active volcano, but luckily it was not expected to erupt at that time, though there was dried up lava from an earlier eruption from this volcano nearby that was another tourist attraction. 

This fifth picture is of me on the Mauna Kea, which is a dormant shield volcano, and it has an observatory. Its summit is the highest point in the state of Hawaii, and it is the tallest mountain in the world when it also includes its underwater base, which extends to around 20,000 feet below sea level, thus making its overall height of it 33,000 feet, thus making it the tallest mountain in the world. However, since its summit is only at 13,796 feet, Mount Everest surpasses it. The mountain in the distance is the Mauna Loa, which is the largest mountain in the world, but its summit is 150 feet lower than that of the Mauna Kea. it extends up to 16,000 feet below sea level, so it would not be taller than Mauna Kea either way. This is also another shield volcano, but it is an active one. 

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First Commercial Shoot

 Gurbaaz's Picture 

Karthik's Picture 

James' Picture 

Chandini's Photo 

Brian's Picture

Photoshoot with Backdrop

After Editing

Before Editing

I took a picture of James, who was wearing his hood in front of a colorful background. 

Best Picture

Five Info Pages of Photographers

1. Steve McCurry
2. David Bailey
3. Nick Knight
4. Joe McNally
5. Elliot Erwitt

Second Personal Story

    The Honda is one of my favorite makes of cars. My favorite Honda model is the Civic. It is because it is a strong car, which is why I own two different models of the Civic. I had owned a really old Civic car twenty years ago, until it had a bad smell. Also, I like cars that have short names, because then, it is usually easier to say them, and it takes less time to write the names. This car reminds me of the Toyota Camry, and I did own a Toyota four years ago. This would be my favorite car, though it could be troublesome to seat up to four passengers in this car, since the two Hondas and Hyundai I have seat up to four or five passengers. I took this picture one night at a Honda dealership in Sunnyvale.

Multicultural Week

    Multicultural week is a yearly tradition in our school, which helps share the cultures of the world with the rest of that school for one week. People dress up in traditional clothing, and during lunchtime from Monday through Thursday, they serve traditional foods at the Horseshoe parking lot whenever the weather is fine, except once or twice last year, when it was raining, they had the food stands all over the quad and the area between the gym and locker rooms. On Fridays, they have an assembly, in which, people perform in different groups to do different traditional performances that match those from other countries all over the world. This typically happens in April usually before spring break ever happens, but this year, since spring break was on the first week of April, they had multicultural week the week after spring break. Because of all this, the five days in multicultural week do not follow the normal, typical daily school bell schedule. The periods are typically shorter, except on Friday, third period is longer, because that is when the assembly happens, but there is no read on either of these days, and from Monday through Friday, the break is one minute shorter. However, it is a pretty fun week, and the food they serve may be slightly overpriced, but at least they taste pretty good. This year, however, instead of paying cash directly to the stands, they make us exchange one buck per ticket, and pay using those tickets.