My Nemo baby

During this summer, we got to have our first dog!!
It was the most rambunctious dog I've ever encountered but it was so cute! So it made up for it.
It only stayed with us for like a little over a month but.. see how much it grew
The first few pictures are of it day after we brought it home:














So cute right??
We were taken by its cuteness too at first and couldn't leave her alone.. and then nemo started to show her dark sides.
She bit us incessantly



















Threatened us by dragging us around and pulling on our hair
Such an evil doggie!












It even stole food from us, detroyed our property, and disrupted our sleep! :O


























But as I said, nemo's too cute to hate!
It eventually grew up to be a brave looking dog.. and it's probably still growing

Night shots

Taking pictures at night can be tricky for obvious reasons. Cameras perceive images by lights reflecting off of them (like our eyes) and if there's no light, it's easy to see why it's hard to take sharp pictures at night. I've taken many many failed night pictures. Blurry, long lines of light trailing off, unfocused... etc. But I love taking sharp night landscape shots because they have a whole different feeling from the same landscape when there's sunlight.
These are some of my favorite ones:

Pittsburgh always seems prettier at night. I think it's because the lack of light covers up its flaws.

Since all of these are landscape, there's no need to use the night settings which usually involve flash (and if you really wanna use flash to lighten things up, you would need an awfully big one).
It's hard to get this right. Night shots turn out much better with tripods, but in my case I never bring one around, so you can just use a hand rail or hope your hands are very steady.