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much thanks to the flyest realtor on the planet, kuya jimmy. his...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:37:33 +0800

much thanks to the flyest realtor on the planet, kuya jimmy. his mom sold my parents our first and only house back in ‘96! #fullcircle #kellerwilliamsrealty

we homeowners, son! or should i say, ‘condowners’ :D...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:50:46 +0800

we homeowners, son! or should i say, ‘condowners’ :D #baltimoresident #moving

‘cause shopping online just isn’t the same. #ikea...

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:27:48 +0800

‘cause shopping online just isn’t the same. #ikea #yayforfurniture

:D

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:30:21 +0800

veejayfloresca: My best friend in custom FLORESCA....

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:56:04 +0800

veejayfloresca:

My best friend in custom FLORESCA. #TheFlorescaBride #bestfriends

we, and everyone there, absolutely loved it! i know i speak for abbie when i say that you made our dreams for her wedding gown come true :)

veejayfloresca: Really happy to have her in my life ;-) #bride...

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:54:01 +0800

veejayfloresca:

Really happy to have her in my life ;-) #bride #bestfriends #friendship

this was an amazing work of art, veejay! thank you, thank you, thank you! a million times, thank you!

veejayfloresca: First time to be one of the groomsmen!! Haha...

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:52:00 +0800

veejayfloresca:

First time to be one of the groomsmen!! Haha #groomsmen

L-R: my cousin ian, brother, and the incredibly talented, veejay floresca, who designed my suit as well as abbie’s gown.

thanks so much veejay, for being a part of our special day!

veejayfloresca: So, my best friend is married. Who’s next????...

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:51:02 +0800

veejayfloresca:

So, my best friend is married. Who’s next???? @stalwart25 haha!!!

BIRTHDAY SHOUT-OUT !!!

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:40:12 +0800

relaxhaveacupoftea:

2004

2012

HAPPPPPY BIRTHDAY to my pinsan/primo!! I hope you have a wonderful day and weekend celebrating not only your birthday but your wedding to the the sweetest, prettiest girl ever! I wish you both the very best :]

(Btw, Glenn is super talented..check out his photography site http://www.glennorion.com/)

hahaha, oh my! that’s a throwback if i ever saw one, and it also proves that jish and i were once legit gangstas, hahahaha :D kudos to you for even finding it!

thanks so much, prima, for remembering (i still have your scrapbook/pearls before swine comics/farewell present)! and of course, we’ll def be friends when we’re both back in MD! xoxoxo

hahahahahahahaha, best baby gifs ever!!

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:05:46 +0800

hahahahahahahaha, best baby gifs ever!!

Welcome Back, Old Friend on Flickr. Reunited with what started...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:37:00 +0800

Welcome Back, Old Friend on Flickr.

Reunited with what started it all :)

www.glennorion.com/2/post/2013/03/welcome-back-old-friend.html

www.facebook.com/GlennOrionPhotography

photojojo: The image above looks like a scan gone wrong ,...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:08:28 +0800

photojojo:

The image above looks like a scan gone wrong , right? Nope. It’s an intricately carved furniture piece by Ferruccio Laviani. Yeah, we were blown away too.

Meticulously Carved Sculpture Looks Like a Scanner Glitch

whaaaaat. no way!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:43:01 +0800

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Through our 14-day, 12-city Euro trip, Abbie and I had this idea...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:52:00 +0800

Through our 14-day, 12-city Euro trip, Abbie and I had this idea we thought we’d try out.

Instead of all the photos we knew we’d take, we thought what better way to finally use the movie capabilities of our cameras for a change, than to do something as simple as setting up a tripod and walking towards each other. In front of random strangers. Sometimes doing more than one take.

Hopefully the awkwardness translates. (Haha!)

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photojojo: The trailer for the Vivian Maier documentary is out,...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:48:32 +0800

photojojo:

The trailer for the Vivian Maier documentary is out, and it looks sogood.

You might recall the incredible story — Vivian was a nanny living a double life as a street photographer in the 50s and 60s but has since passed away.

Her work only recently discovered when a historian, John Maloof, found hundreds of thousands of developed and undeveloped negatives.

Watch the Vivian Maeier Documentary Trailer

amazing. not much of a street photog, but man those are some of the best i’ve seen. and what a body of work!!

Here's to never having to spend another birthday apart!

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:10:56 +0800

♥

A Study on Logos

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:23:00 +0800

I’ve always had a fascination with logos. One of my favorites being the now-defunct Northwest Airlines. Our family had been signed up to its frequent flyer program ever since I could remember, but I never really understood the logo whenever I’d come across it.

Until one day it dawned on me.

At first glance it simply looks like an italicized “N” in a circle. But look closely, and the triangle to the left represents the “W” with a part of it having been removed. Not only that, but the triangle is also pointing to the upper left quadrant of the circle or the cardinal direction north-west on a compass.

Brilliant! The design was thought up by Landor Associates, the same brand consultancy firm that made the FedEx logo (have you seen its hidden arrow?!).

While the logo plays a large part in a company’s branding, the logo itself almost never encapsulates whatever it is that that company does or makes, or what services it provides. Yet, an effective logo can stand on its own and eventually become the single identifier of a brand, lifestyle, or product.

Pop quiz!

When I decided late last year to design my first “real” logo, I knew I obviously had to incorporate some aspect of photography in it. I thought of rolls of film, lenses, camera bodies, tripods, anything I could think of that would seamlessly include my initials in the design. I also knew I wanted another logo that would distinguish my lifestyle and portrait work from wedding photography.

And it all ended up taking just one Sunday afternoon.

Yet, having said that, I took several more weeks refining and adjusting it pixel by pixel before showing them to anyone. Then after that, I waited almost three months before making them “live” here on my website and on Facebook.

It took a little brainstorming and some rough sketches, but from there, it was just a matter of execution. I looked at a signature-esque logo but the initials GOP kind of set me off that path pretty quickly. Then I tried to play on the idea of the Orion constellation as a visual element but then realized Jasmine Star already had the corner on that. I settled on the idea of using the lens as the “O”.

So I went with that. I had experimented with my Wacom tablet the year before sketching my D300s and had gotten quite adept at using it.

First sketch circa August 2011

I ended up getting carried away (though happily and content), and the outcome just seemed too stiff. It did end up being a neat little gif, though—which reinforces the importance of using layers for different elements so you can isolate changes if and when you need to get back to them.

So it was back to the drawing board. Using the Brush tool freehand yielded inconsistent results, so I turned to my newly acquired skill of using the Pen tool. I outlined the basic camera shape and gave it a hint of a tilt just to make it seem a little dynamic. This ended up being fortuitous because had it been level, the circular part of the “g” would have looked misaligned with the grip part of the camera. The letters, however, still needed to be hand drawn and after some—okay, a lot—of trial and error, zooming out and therefore making the lines shorter stroke-wise made the letters a lot cleaner and consistent.

The final product

While I was at it that afternoon, I also wanted to design a logo for my wedding photography—the aspect which I wanted to focus on more and eventually become the core of my business.

I knew I was onto something after the first design, but kept getting stuck on something that looked too similar to the GQ logo and Chanel’s. I chuckled a bit to myself at the thought of being associated with those brands.

Not quite.

I ended up Googling wedding bands and found one that would make the most sense as a base template. After some vectoring and more Pen tool magic, I came up with another logo! Where I had gone for a grey tone, a recurring theme in my previous work, this time I decided to add the gold color later on so it would have the kind of lasting, regal quality to it.

As far as the typeface goes, it was really just a kind of natural progression from my earlier watermarks.

I had fallen in love with Century Gothic—with a twist. Its vertical scale is adjusted to 105 percent of the default with the tracking set to -100. And in deciding to omit the space between my first and last name, using italics and bold helped separate the two words. This inadvertently led to the “LE” being adjoined at the bottom. I sliced out a roughly equivalent spacing as the other letters, and made the center staff of the G also tilt a bit. The word “photography” was then set to fill the width of the words above.

And tadaaaaa!

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The Basilica of Notre-Dame along the Avenue Jean-Médecin in the...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:18:34 +0800

The Basilica of Notre-Dame along the Avenue Jean-Médecin in the center of Nice, France looks good in any light. And they also kind of look like the Ravens’ colors.

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One of the reasons I’m glad to have stuck around with my...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:56:00 +0800

One of the reasons I’m glad to have stuck around with my webhost even though there are better (and pricier) options out there, is because while their feature set left much to be desired, it only meant that there was room for growth.

And grow they have. Largely in part a “drag and drop” website builder, it’s been exciting to be an eager recipient of the improvements constantly being made by the team behind Weebly. More customizations, more layout preferences, more theme choices, better back-end support, and so forth. The addition of the social networking icons last year was worth the wait.

And their newest feature I’m happy to incorporate is the Search box. Granted there isn’t much to search for here with four posts and simple menus, but it can only mean one thing—there’s room for growth! So stay tuned!

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Marseille, the setting of one of my favorite books The Count of...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:00:18 +0800

Marseille, the setting of one of my favorite books The Count of Monte Cristo. (Or was it just because it was required reading?)