ANGELA B. PAN

Home from an amazing trip out west. I still feel like I’m recovering from the lack of sleep I got and all the fun I was having. So this weekend is reserved for rest and photo editing 🙂

Here’s an image I took on my second day in San Francisco. I headed up to Twin Peaks for sunrise and was surprised to see about 10 other people already there. Half of them were there for photography while the other half had obviously been there all night partying. So this lead to some interesting conversations about UFOs, moroccan food, and Lucy Liu. Don’t ask. I have no idea either.

I didn’t get to talk to this woman but I’m positive she has some interesting stories of her own 🙂

Here are 3 things that made me so happy this past week:

1. Connecting with friends from the Arcanum and all our photo adventures

2. Meeting Anelise in real life and surprising Ana at her awesome new store in Sacramento

3. Climbing down a steep hill in Muir Woods with Kyle and his wife Danielle to take some funny pictures with trees. More about that one later.

Looking forward to today. Today I’m meeting up with my awesome graphic designer, Anelise from Anelise Salvo Design Co. We met through instagram and have been working together for at least half a year now. She’s the lady responsible for my beautiful website, the monthly downloads and more things we’ve got in the works. Love working with her and can’t wait to meet face-to-face 🙂

Hey California! I’m here!! I had a great time at dinner with my cousins Jeff and Leslie last night. Now looking forward to meeting up with photo friends and spending the week in San Francisco 🙂

Three things I’m grateful for this week:

1. California love <3 2. My Arcanum friends/family

3. Fun times at Creation Wars

Guess what! Tomorrow is my birthday! August 29th 🙂

I’m one of those people who love celebrating birthdays and I always thought it was really cool that it’s also Michael Jackson’s birthday. Me and the king of pop.

But going through Facebook and things I’ve noticed quite a few of my photo friends also celebrate their birthdays this week. I think that’s so awesome! The way that I think of it, there must be some sort of correlation between creatives and being born around this time of the year. HAHA. Or am I taking this birthday thing a little too far?

Here are 3 things that made me super happy this past week:

1. Early birthday celebrating with the family at Lake Anna this past week. I had a blast just hanging out and soaking in the sun.

2. Wakeboarding! Never in my life had I thought I’d wakeboard but it was super fun. Can’t wait to do it again sometime soon

3. And then THIS!!!

Last full day on the lake and I’ve been trying my hardest to stand up on the wake board. Somehow I always get up a little and always loose my grip.

Update: I got up!! I just had to change my grip and it was so much easier. Before I had one hand up and one hand down. Now I hold the bar with both hands going in the same direction and I was able to ride.

Having a blast at the lake this week! We’ve been out on the boat and went wake boarding, tubing and just general relaxing. I also flew a drone for the first time. It lasted for about 5 minutes before I crashed it into a tree 🙁 Does anyone know where I go to get a drone repair?