Baby Lucas Studio Shots

Took some studio shots for Lucas, cant imagine how i did this shot without the help of my younger sis and mum.

The backdrop was actually a "close to white" towel that my sis and mum to hold. Lucas was lying on his small little mattress and thats it. Thankfully, he is still too young to learn crawling.





Motion blur on this one..sadly








He was pretty tired after 5 mins, so i let him rest for awhile and continue again




Guess he was too tired and he started drooling all over the mattress...:)

Moving in to my new office!

Finally after 2 months of renovation, we moved back to our newly furnished office.
I went in to take some picture of it before everyone started to move in.

The new cashier counter, built at the convenient of everyone.


This design came with natural sky light! Can you see it in this picture?


The good thing was that it creates an all new ambiance to the office. Well of course that will be nice provided that no one was sitting under these sky light.


In the past, we complained that we did not have enough cabinet so this round, everyone get tonnes of it. Which in my opinion, its really alot!




The cubicle looks cheap. How can a cubicle does not have a platform for legs and the use of this


Our pantry...very nice thou


Hope everything will go smoothly in this office for me as well!

Emo Max

Feeling pretty Emo these days and this has been with me for the longest period! Everyday seems so gloomy and i don't know how much longer, i will be affected by it.
The feeling is so strong this round that even doing my favourite things like shopping for lens, orchids, fishes etc couldnt keep my mind away from it.
This might be the call for me to finally realise that i cannot keep myself in the self denial mode anymore.

There is nothing i can do for now but just wait! And the wait seems so long yet so near! Just hope i have enough determination to hang on to it.

Some pictures that was taken weeks ago!

Films, Fuji Pro 160s on my Favourite Yashica Mat 124G!
This round, the pictures were taken indoor. Seems like i did a pretty good job with my metering although only 4 pictures were presentable from the 12.



Lucas, I requested for a shot with him sitting alone!


My cousin...

Revisited China town

I went to Chinatown again today but this round with Fion and Yuan, my coming Japan trip buddies. We set aside today to do some research and study on our trip to Japan in November. This coming NATAS was little too early for us, so we decided not to join in the queue at Expo next week.
Well, our plan was to do a free and easy from Tokyo to Osaka and along the way, visit Mount Fuji and Kyoto. We wanted to see if it is possible to fly in Osaka and fly out from Tokyo but apparently, a one way ticket is way too expensive.
Next, we wanted to see if we can have the options of joining a tour and extend our stay at Tokyo but then again, the tour packages doesn't seems to be any cheaper as well and extending the stay brings the cost up by a lot.

Anyway, the visits to these tour agencies didn't really take up a lot of our time. We spend most of our time exploring nice eateries and even took our discussions to Coffee Bean . I even showed them some really tradition pastry shops along the way.

We ended our day with a shopping at the famous "super crowded" necessities shop...where people snatched products like shampoo etc like it was free! Ermm, but to be fair, its really quite cheap thou. haha

The day was quite enjoyable!

My new Photo Blog site

Hi,

As i am joining some other photography communities and sharing my pictures, thought it will be better to keep a dedicated blog which separates out from my personal updates.

Took a while to get this site up and pardon me, if there are some pictures which you have seen it before.

Camera & I

Visiting during CNY at my relatives house

We always spend our Chu 2 visiting our relatives place. So this year, the only difference, was that my 2 cousins and my Aunt was around.

My cousin's performing some high jump at the old folks home.




Mum posing for a pic










Lydias likes to take picture more than her sister




They offered to be the model of the day moving around the house


They have this pond that surrounds the house, something i like alot!










The big chow chow of my relative, which has an aircon room to himself.








Going up the stairs


A private Jacuzzi which i think she loves it alot.






This is another cozy area that we love to hang around!

Controversy Pictures - to post or not to post

If you followed my blog closely or am a facebook friend of mine, you will realised that i have posted and removed 2 pictures of 2 old folks from these sites.

I think its pretty subjective as to how people view these pictures. Yes, they are sad pictures and I do agree that we should place ourselves in their shoes when we take the pictures of them in misery and show it to others.

But this is what photo journalism is about. For me, its rather simple, i see a subject, i see a story and i will take the picture. I am not gloating over their misery nor am i seeking attention through their plight.

Anyway, I dont see a difference between taking a picture of a fortunate happy soul vs a sad unhappy soul, in life, its about everything. You still see pictures of terrorism attacks and poor life taken from war in the papers everyday right? And it dont make a difference whether u r a reporter or a journalist to be able to take these pictures. Well, but i do agree that we should respect the person in taking their pictures.

It's very subjective when it comes to photography and of course, to each their own views :) PEACE!

Happy Rabbit year

After i sold off my GF1, lugging a camera out for visiting is just too inconvenient for me. I did bring along my Rangefinder, but didnt really take alot of pictures. So for once, these pics posted here is taken by my sis.

Getting ready for visiting


A grp shot!




My 2 little cousins...

Happy Chinese New Year 2011

It took me forever to start posting a new blog entry and it seems that only during this festive holiday, i finally had the luxury of posting one.
Work is hectic in the month of Jan and Feb. Let's hope all these hard work will be paid off in this coming new Year of Rabbit!

As usual, we had our reunion dinner at my 5th Uncle place. We are quite grateful that he offered his place for dinner and everything was prepared by his family.


Unlike last year, the whole family was here! Aunt was back from New Zealand to celebrate this season with us.


The Brothers and Sisters


This "Yu Sheng" was prepared by my 5th Aunty


And here we begin!






And "Huat Ar"


Hopefully this year will be a prosperous year for everyone and i hope i can have a great career, wealth and health for me and my family & friends!