Spending the (Valentine's) Day with Mio

Happy Valentine's Day to you all! Or as I've also heard it on figure.fm, happy singles awareness day! Well whichever you prefer, I hope you have or had a good day!

Today I spent my day with my lovely Mio, especially because it's Valentine's. She's kept me company throughout the day up till after dinner and kept my spirits up while at work.

She was a bit shy, took her a while to come out from hiding....

Mio felt at home once she got familiar with where she was.

And it didn't take long until she decided to help out a bit.

Lunch break! Yummy Chicken Katsu Curry.

Mio liked to ride up alongside Miku back to the office.

Whew! Checkout time. Mio and I were both exhausted and ready to enjoy the rest of the day.

On the way home, we went to the store and picked up some salmon for dinner. Mio loves to help preparing dinner!

I also picked these up at the store. These are pretty good, but Mio was a bit embarrassed by what they were called...

At last dinner's ready. I enjoy a nice dinner with Mio for Valentine's. 

We also end up enjoying some entertainment during. A Turret Serenade!

After dinner, I surprise Mio with a lovely box of chocolates just for the Valentine's day occasion. Much to say she was totally taken back.

Although, she didn't hesitate long to open up the box and take the first piece!

She was so happy and full after such a great dinner!

And what a better way to end off the day than to watch a few K-ON! episodes along with Mio! Today went a lot better than I had expected!

That was my Valentines day with my favorite girl. I hope you enjoyed my pictures. Taking Mio along throughout the day was more enjoyable than I could have imagined. I think I'll take her along more often, not just for special occasions like today.

To conclude, I'll repeat what I have stated at the beginning. Happy Valentine's/Singles Awareness Day! I hope you had a good and enjoyable one (wish I could've finished the post before the next day to be more on the dot, but oh well). I leave you with 2 more images to celebrate the occasion. 

Update Update

Yeah, it's been a long while since I last posted. Figured I'd put this one up making note that I'm still around.
Ideas a brewin' after reading a few figure.fm daily posts and after seeing the photo compilation book of Danboard (amazing pics by the way). If you venture in the posts daily or so, you'd probably see where I'm getting at?
Gots me a new play thing/photo subject to mess around with my camera which I'll start this project probly the beginning of the new year. I hope that I can maintain it throughout the whole year.
Hint of my new play thing/photo subject: "Target a-cqui-red!"

Mirai Fanart!

At the beginning of this month, Danny made a request on his site to fans to submit some fanart of Mirai. Those submitted would then be shown up on Culture:Japan in an upcoming episode; Although I am not sure if all that are submitted would be shown.

I decided to jump in on the bandwagon and do a quick fanart/lineart shown below:

It's one of my more good arts, although not as good as some others I've seen... (I've been quite pessimistic lately, I dunno why). Despite that, I'm not intimidated by that and will shortly post it up on Figure.fm right after this! It'd be nice to see this up in C:J!

I guess I'll also put here the same info requested when posting up a fanart:
Nickname: Maikeru To
Country of Residence: United States
URL: http://purpleandgreen54.blogspot.com/
Hours spent: 3-4 Hours
Software Used: MS Paint (for minor cleanup)

New Awesome Light Writing!

Ok for Part 2 of my photo shooting catchup, I have created some new light writing shots, mostly featuring BRS. And from what I've looked at, they came out pretty awesome!!!

My Favorite one. Like the close up and the effect of the flame.

 Another Fave. Only seeing the lower half but the blue flame stands out above.

 

This last one of the above 4 is probably the best because the flame is the most blue.

And now with her shooting a giant laser out of the Rock Cannon (for some reason). Her Flame could have been better but the latter photos didn't have a nice beam effect that this one dones.

And finally, Unit 01 Awakened with the halo overhead. An improvement from the previous one I did in that I secured the light to a wheel and spun it around during the shot. It's a lot more even yet the non-straightness in it gives it a nice touch, I think.

Trip to Monterey Bay with Mio

So I recently went on a trip with my folks up to Monterey Bay via PCH and have taken a bunch of pictures. My travel figma companion, lovely Mio,  decided to come along for the trip and got into some of the pictures! (Although I do have many many shots from the trip and not to overload the post, here're the ones featuring Mio (and friends):

First stop: at an inn along the PCH at Ragged Point. There were few paths along the ridge and this one shows the scariness that is the PCH. If you notice the horizontal rows of trees, that's pretty  much where the road is! Scarry!!!!

Lunch break at the same inn. Mio's gathering our cold waters.

Aand Mio presenting a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. Simple yet kept me content until we hit up Monterey later that day :P

Later, in Monterey, having dinner at Fisherman's Wharf.

Mio: "Hmm what should we get? A lot of choices" Well whenever I think of dining at a Fisherman's Wharf, what always comes to mind is.......

Clam chowder in a sourdough Bread bowl!! Mio: "Wow! Looks delicious!"

Mio: "Ugghh.. I think I had enough of that for now..."

Next morning, Mio's still recuperating from the heavy dinner, Noel decided to head out with me in her stead. She decides to overlook the bay looking for some seals scattered about.

Noel:"Hmm none here..."

Mio finally got up and came about for some nice coast and beach shots

"Uhh Mio, I can see your....." Mio:"?.............!!!"

And that's my trip with my lovely companion. I hope to bring her along a lot more often on my trips all around!

Still Here

K, so I was on a bit of hiatus again. Coincidental that I took a bit of a break last year due to my computer crapping out on me on the week of AX. This time though, my comp was still working, I was just on the lazy side of not doing anything. So here I go continuing posting here. (oh, and I uber failed at what I said I'd do w/ part 2 and 3 of my AX posting...)

An addition to not just posting that I'm still here, I'll post some figure pictures I just did today to post up on figure.fm. Figma Blackrock Shooter came in and I made a pose with her on the Freeing American Bike. Looked sooo good that I am keeping that one as is. I will have other BRS Figmas coming in so I can play around with those.

This is my #2 favorite:

 

This one is my #1 Favorite: