Photo Book: "Days with my Father"

My friend referred me to this book and it absolutely took me by surprise. Without knowing anything about the photographer I was able to grasp the story and the concept behind his book. This book as it’s titled is the Photographer Phillip Toledano’s experiences with the remaining “Days with my Father.” It takes place over a span of 2 plus years showing his relationship and what he sees with his father who suffers from Short term memory loss. I highly recommend this to any photographer or to anyone looking for touching pictures with a great personal story.

Random thoughts (16) SUMMERTHING

Today was a great day, my wife and I was able to finally head out to Alice 97.3 annual FREE concert SUMMERTHING at GoldenGate Park. This year they hosted 4 artist: Thriving Ivory, One Esim, Kris Allen and one of our favorite groups LIFEHOUSE! The park was beautiful as hundreds of people laid out under the sun with their love ones and their pets. The city was extremely packed due to the annual Pride parade, the Giants had a home baseball game and there were 2 smaller events being hosted in SF. I guess for me, I was fine with that because if these events where not going on, it would be hard to imagine what seating would have been like! Here are a couple shots of the concert. I can’t wait to head out there again next year! LIFEHOUSE WAS GREAT!

© Michael Lopez

Mirrors: 3

© Michael Lopez

"Mirrors” is a series of Portraits taken with a different point of view."

Movie Review 5: a new story

6/18 Toy Story 3 (SCORE 90/100)

After a 10plus years or so from Toy Story 2, this movie gives back to its loyal fans. I was able to watch the first two before I watch this one and it brought back the memories of how great this trilogy really is. I ended up watching the movie in 3d and even though I still felt a little woozy, the experience with 3d has been getting better.

Its great to see this series bring back all the main characters and a lot of the supporting cast. The flow of the movie was great and the story connected all 3 movies to give a nice flowing connection. Even though it’s an animated film the acting for the voice drew me in as if I was watching a non-cartoon. I highly enjoyed this film as I was a teenager when the first two came out; it was nice to see the characters grow up in this film as I have with it.

Overall this movie is probably the best movie I have seen so far this year. It offered everything you could want in a movie: Drama, romance, suspense and of course comedy. The people at Pixar open the door with Toy Story 1 and now sets the bar higher for themselves and other animation companies to produce a hit! I hope with all great trilogies that it ends with this one, yes this movie can be a tear jerker so please watch the kids…

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Last 4 movie scores:

IronMan 2: 76

Kick Ass: 86
Clash of the Titans: 86
Percy Jackson "Lightning Thief": 33 Lowest score this year

I have listed below my categories of how I score a movie.
I use scores based on a numeric scale with a low score representing a bad score to high score being a good score.

Time Management (5) Visual/Sound Effects (5)
Acting (25) Story (25)
Enjoyment (30)
Wow Factor (10)
TOTAL POSSIBLE (100)

Thru My Eyes: 15 "US OPEN Driving Range"

Henrik Stenson, Hunter Mahan and Ernie Els
At The Driving Range: Pebble Beach, CA

© Michael Lopez

"Thru my eyes” is a series of random photographs taken with various cameras to capture the moment the way I see them. This series is a way for me to continue to grow as a photographer and share with the world my views “Thru my eyes.”