New Year, New Beginnings

Alright I know it's been a a month since the year truned anew, and its been a couple of months since my last post. But better late than...well, later I guess. Here are some photos from the holidays:
My lovely niece Bea:

My Wife and her sis Lei:

Me, with my wife and Mom: 

Yup, that's me dressed up as Santa : )

My wife after receiving an autographed cd of her favorite singer: 

I guess the New Year brings some hope to everyone. Me, I hope I'll get my life in order, prioritize what needs to be prioritized, and try to keep doing what I love: Photography. My main goal this year is learn and develop my skills and create one of a kind images. Practice makes perfect, and I believe just by shooting everyday will benefit me more than by reading everything on the net.  Here are my photography resolutions for this year:

• Shoot at least one photo a day. One well thought photo is better than a thousand random ones
• Bring my camera - ALWAYS.
• Spend less time on online forums like the Flickr Strobist group.  As much as members are helpful, spending too much time there is time taken from taking pictures
• Stop thinking about adding more gear. I have enough (this one goes against my gear head mentality but I'll do my best)
• Start photography projects. May it be a 50/50 ala Bert Stephani, or a Film Strobist project, projects pushes people to be creative and I'll need all the "push" I can get.
• Not every photo needs to be lit. Strobist is not everything. Natural light is good.
• Set time from my day job to just shoot.  I'm plotting vacation time now just for me to be able to shoot

That's it for now. I'm still learning a ton of stuff on post processing with Photoshop CS4.  I'm not too much of post processing kinda guy, and I normally get what I want (almost always) straight out of the camera. It's a cool editing tool, but again, spending a ton of time editing doesn't really say much about my photography. :)