Photography

is one of my passions. If you think about it, taking a photograph is actually a dimensionality reduction process. Our 4-dimensional physical world (X,Y,Z,T) is reduced to a 2-dimensional artistic representation. Unlike in machine learning, there are no auto-calculated principal components here. How to combinate and sample from each physical dimension is a matter of personal taste and a relection of the way one sees the world.

What I especially like about landscape photography is the lighting. Creating and using the light is arguably the most important element in photography. In landscape photography, all the light is created by the powerful and unpredictable mother nature. Using it requires great patience and deep appreciation.

iPhone

I firmly believe that the camera one uses has little to do the quality of the photo. Although the other photos on this page are taken with a DSLR (Nikon D50 with a simple kit lens if you ask), these two photos are taken with my iPhone, which is always conveniently in my pocket when the moment of great lighting arrives.