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We took a trip to the San Juan Capistrano Mission this past weekend and I was impressed and astonished by it’s history and architecture. It’s a lovely place to visit if you have time…and a camera (being that it’s surrounded by beautiful gardens and historic ruins and all that good stuff). To read about it’s history go to sjchistoricalsociety.com

Enjoy the plentiful pictures!

The Serra Chapel.

Construction of Mission San Juan Capistano, “Jewel of the Missions”, began in November 1776. Father Junipero Serra named it for St. John of Capestrano in Italy, a warrior priest of the 15th century. This is the seventh in the chain of missions founded by Father Serra.

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alldoneup :: May.27.2008 :: Photography, Places :: 10 Comments »

We visited the Carlsbad Flower Fields this weekend and what a spectacular array of flowerage, I was riveted by their colorful display!

Ranunculus in bloom
They grow millions of these flowers to harvest the ranunculus bulbs. I felt like running through the fields and picking a bouquet full of them but I contained myself, barely. =d

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alldoneup :: Apr.28.2008 :: Photography, Places :: 11 Comments »

A few photos of the beautiful flowers we tried not to trample all over.

Being adventurous has it’s perks!

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~Claude Monet

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alldoneup :: Mar.13.2008 :: Photography :: 17 Comments »

I just wanted to share a few pictures from this past weekend. I love the rustic-looking background in these first two pics.

Baby Jonathan and the beautiful woman in his life.

Chubby cheeks, so cute!

alldoneup :: Feb.13.2008 :: Photography :: 4 Comments »

Corona Del Mar
Me and the boyfriend decided to stop at the beach this weekend to capture some night shots….which basically amounted to a lot of blur and noise but a few came out really nice so I thought I’d share them. I love how you can see the stars in the very last picture and someone decided to take their sailboat out so we got a cool subject to work with too. =p

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alldoneup :: Dec.03.2007 :: Photography, Places :: 7 Comments »

Mai Doua Xiong Photography
[Aside from the watchband] how beautiful is this picture?! It’s one of my favorite photos taken by my sister in law who is trying to get into professional photography. She didn’t ask me to blog about it but when I saw some of her pictures I was pretty impressed and couldn’t help but show some love! =D

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alldoneup :: Nov.27.2007 :: Photography :: 3 Comments »