California Road Trip

     For the past two weeks I have been in California exploring the coast with my family. The first location of our adventure was arriving in Oakland airport to spend five days in San Francisco. I saw the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, the famous Golden Gate Bridge, ate a lot of Italian food and explored China town and Japan town. We attended a farmers market that runs four days during the week, and I talked to a few local artists in the area. It is truly amazing how welcoming and lovely the people of San Francisco are. Also, we visited the wine country and tasted a lot of olive oil and cheese! I've been to the wine country before and did not remember it being so very beautiful! Second, we stayed overnight in Monterey which was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. The majority of macro flower  photographs my viewers have seen are from Monterey! The third place we stayed was not much to take photographs of because we did not spend much time there. From there, we drove down Route 1 on the coast of California which was absolutely amazing because on one side are mountains and the other side of the road is the ocean. We stopped in Half Moon Bay and I had the best fish taco with mango sauce i've ever had, literally, I can't even explain how amazing that was. We continued our journey to San Diego and my brothers stayed there for less than two days because we spent so much time exploring elsewhere. When we were in San Diego we went to the San Diego Zoo, and it was the most amazing Zoo I have ever been to. My brothers and I stayed in San Onofre for two days to enjoy surfing the famous beaches there. Ultimately the most interesting two weeks and I hope you all keep a lookout for my photographs. It will take me a couple days to finish editing all of the photographs so bare with me!

                                             Stay lovely! 
                                                  Julianna 

San Francisco

As some of you may know from my Facebook or Flickr posts, I am in California for the next two weeks, and the beginning of my adventure started on Monday. I have walked the entire city of San Francisco, and I can barely walk straight because I am so sore! You will be happy to know that I have taken the famous cable cars around the city, and I have gone to the original Ghiraradelli cafe. I have gone to the wine country, and tasted some really nasty wines. I went to China Town and bought a real jade ring, which I have always wanted, and a koi fish keychain. Today, I went to Japan Town and went to San Francisco's Sanrio Hello Kitty store, and bought a bunch of stuff for lunches during my school year. I bought my very first Bento Box which I was extremely excited about! :D I will be leaving tomorrow for Monterey, and I will hopefully have internet to update you all about that! I hope you all are enjoying the photographs I have posted so far! 

                                            Golden Gate Bridge

                                            Ghirardelli

                                            Cable Car

                                            Japanese Seaweed noodle soup and California roll sushi

                                            Sunflowers

Mother Squirrel

Did you know that mother squirrels carry their babies in their mouth? I did not know that until my friend and I witnessed this in action! We thought the poor squirrel had a growth, but while I was changing to my zoom lens my friend saw the mother squirrel climb up the tree, and a baby squirrel climbed out of the mother's mouth! The mother squirrel watched my friend and I while protecting the baby, and I proceeded to snap photographs of the mother squirrel. 

Photo shoot with Bethany

Yesterday my friend Bethany modeled for me, and her personality shines through every photograph I have ever taken of her. She is beautiful.

Check out more from this shoot on my Flickr or Facebook!

      Welcome to my Blog! After a long time of thinking about how to keep my photography followers updated; and after a major mistake of deleting my website, I have finally come to the decision I will be working on a blog, and during my summer break I will be working on a more effective website.
     As many of you know, I am a full-time art student in college; therefore, I have absolutely no time to update a website, nor upload my photographs on the same day!
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