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In keeping with my (intermittent) philosophy of finding new areas to expand my ability, I realised that my lens and camera combination give me a pretty good combination to go birding. My trouble...

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See, this is the last photo from the previous entry: And this is what happens when I run it through a quick, automated cleanup: I need to learn how to do more. At the very least, I need to ...

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The weekend as Xueling's birthday, so naturally there are photos It's a doting father thing. And there were two parties: One at her school, and one at my parents' place which invol...

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1957: Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life ...

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I conclude, thus, that people are beautiful. Not just when they dress up and pose and make themselves beautiful for the camera but in the lines of their bodies In movement, or in repo...

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Three-day weekend, plus a half-day holiday on Thursday, meant that I had a bit more free time than usual. So, by my usual logic of looking for the outliers in my photography, I've gotten a few mo...

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Full album here: https://www.facebook.com/yuen.xiang.hao/media_set?set=a.10152358932614085.1073741914.571969084&type=3 As per last year we were really only able to go on Sunday (although this...

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Due to a number of intersecting coincidences, I've had the opportunity to take more high speed shots lately. The results are... pleasing. I was down at the pool, subbing for the water sports tea...

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In my previous entry, I was left a note Lotharus : Brilliant shots! So what is your "astronomy lens"? Actually I have two lenses I bought for astronomy. The first one, however, is a ...

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I had the privilege of bringing my students to the Singapore air show where the Black Knights were performing. The results... well. I want to state that these first couple of pictures are becaus...

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I'm still using the EP3, despite the fact that it's feeling a bit aged compared to the EPL-6 I bought Caffeine for her birthday, and I can see a couple of hot pixels popping up. But there've been...

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Since the last time, I've broken my handphone made my own light reflector for photography: drove six hours on the highway to Kuala Lumpur: and found Caffeine in the papers: (link here...

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This weekend was the free-to-enter License 2 Play convention, so we hit it over two of the three days. By now, we're getting to know quite a lot of people in the cosplay community, which has res...

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Friday, Saturday and Sunday were Anime Fest Asia. This is a very bad time for it, just when I'm trying to build up speed for Nano. So naturally I went in Saturday and Sunday... Day 2; full alb...

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Sometimes, just sometimes, I take a photo that lets me look at myself and go: Ok, that's not bad. Currently, the goal is to get these photos more often than once a month. (Yes, the same gun...

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Caffeine, my wife. She's my favourite photo subject and normally fairly happy to play along when we're out together: Shadows can give the same layered effect as the lines I normally like to ru...

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A friend of a photographer friend sent me a random message saying that she loved my texture photography. This led to an awkward moment while I tried to figure out how to ask her what she meant wi...

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I've cut back on sky shots (apart from astronomy ones, which require fifty shots for a single image or so), but this one's too good to pass up: Sun diffracting off moisture in the air to creat...

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I've been shooting the sky every Friday night, regardless of how good or bad the sky's been, with the following results: Sagittarius and Scorpius, much dimmer than in Bintan (naturally) But. ...

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See, what the mirrorless system allows me to do is see the photos as I'm composing them. After that, the fact that each shot is effectively free lets me practice. And the fact that I don't need ...

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We might be running the risk of burnout, but we went to Let's Play on Sunday for the Let's Cosplay event, where I discovered an important rule: If you can't control the subject of the photograph...

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There was a brief surge of photos going around Facebook in Singapore of putting up a picture from the player's first cosplay and their latest. Naturally, when I joined in I turned it way up high:...

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Note: Full photoalbum here I only went for Day 2, and apparently there were less cosplayers this time round, although the merchandise hall was much more crowded (apparently). I didn't spend ver...

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I'm not exactly getting better, but I am getting the same kind of results with less photos nowadays. I tried using my prime lens, but it turns out that unless I intend to shove a lot of other ph...

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