i love bokeh

I like taking pictures with shallow depth of field and have just what i want in focus.

Like the spider pic in previous post, i'm often amazed by the pattern of colours tt show up behind the subject of interest :)



Actually, our eyes do it all the time. But it amazes me to see the difference of near and farther vision captured in a photo.

Also, if u think abt it, our minds do it too in a more abstract manner. We sometimes see only what we want to see :)

Saturday, Happy day

If u've been reading this blog, it's prob nothing new to you that Saturday is my favourite day:)

Today i processed one more day of Taiwan photos which i will upload on facebk soon.

Here's 2 i quite like which are on flickr already :)





More photos to come soon! :)

I miss Taiwan

I have a gazillion more photos to process :) Here's one from one of my favourite destinations, Hualien.



This was taken at dawn at this pebble beach called 七星潭.

2 photos i like very much by weixiang :)
(Photos are clickable to go to his flickr site)



This is me when i was abt to stack the stones to take the photo above.


Shall end off with my favourite photo at this point of time.
Silhouette of wen phei, sie yen, raphael and i :):)

Last Day

Tmr, is the official first day of M5.

It'd really be a lie if i say that i'm not anxious at all :S

Despite the dreadfulness of M5, i ought to be thankful for the rather awesome elective mths and break i had :) I cant say it was always fruitful, but i hope the stresslessness has been suffice for the survival of the hectic yr ahead.

Among the happy things that happened, i realise that most offered happifying photo opportunities and these photos have been uploaded either here or on flickr in the past mths. I hope u've found one or two pictures u like!

I guess one of the most interesting thing i did was to see Jolin Tsai at a press conference!

Jolin is really petite in real life.

And then there was Taiwan which i so absolutely LOVE.

Taiwan pictures however will take time to be processed cos all my photos are taken in RAW format. But i shall post 2 here to get things started :)


This is taken at 淡水, the place Jay chou's 不能说的秘密 was filmed :)

To end off, i hope amidst the hectic year ahead, i would be able to find pockets of time for myself to slow down and enjoy a cup of tea with pple like these 2 at Taipei 101.



Have a great wkend friends :)

Back to Reality

I woke up this morning and was feeling a little sad tt i opened my eyes to my room.

Despite being back on the comfort of my familiar bed, i do miss Taiwan :)

I had a gd trip!

Interestingly, i tried shutting my eyes tight and opening it again wishing tt i'd see (pls say this the yikang-way) ROSEland, GOLD standard :) haha

M5 soon.. and i have to put my camera and fun away for 1 yr :S

Up next, Photos of my trip!:)

Busy Happy Monday

I'm really happy that i could run so many errands today including sending my IBM to its hospital for a fan transplant. The service at the service ctr was excellent! I'm ambivalent abt whether it is a gd thing that i only found out now, cos on one hand, i'm really happy that my T43 has survived so long when a number of my frens had fan error when their Thinkpads were around 2 yrs old, and on the other, my IBM is out of warranty!

Plenty of things happened today that threatened to ruined my day.. including the possibility of getting a bus lane ticket while letting my mom alight at the Bedok MRT bus stop and i later saw someone in white uniform with a digicam+tripod :((

Also, i had trouble running cos i kept having persistent side stitch :(( I read abt it on wikipedia.. it's pretty interesting and its actual cause is unknown.

Interestingly, despite all the awful things, my day felt pretty awesome on the whole. I guess, it's always the simplest things that saves the day :)

I have qt a lot of photos i havent processed. But here's a few current ones to share!


Prof Low and CG mate Wenhui

Awesome, Must Watch!

Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

Happy Thots

Some thoughts have the ability to cause u to hold ur breath momentarily, heart to race unexplainably and make you smile from inside out :)

I'm glad to have music and such happy thoughts to occupy me when i'm doing the most mundane things :)

Happy weekend frens.

Seeing things differently

I've noticed that i've been taking pictures of the same kind of creatures because of their sheer ubiquity!

I'm qt ok with it cos i hope i'm getting better but i hope you're not getting too bored!



I like the bokeh of this one :)


It's interesting how the bug was caught in the moment it was abt to take flight.


This butterfly was at Day 1 of its adult life...Decided to process this old picture cos it made me wonder how the butterflies i saw are doing and whether they're still alive.

Affirmation

It's really true that i like words of affirmation :)

Nice Quote

I chance upon a nice quote today

路再长，必有峰回路转出；
夜再黑，已是接近天明时。
有星星长照的夜，
也有彩虹引人希望的明天。
最凶暴的雷雨过去得最快；
最严寒的冬天，
真是春天早临的讯号。

Happy Sunday frens :)

Young & Old

I just uploaded 2 other pictures taken at Ann's house last wk and i qt like the contrast of the size and age difference shown in the pics :)





It's also nice to mention that the family calls Ann 小安儿 affectionately:)

Family

I just heard that my Aunt's family will be moving to Australia. I'm quite sure i'll miss them a lot, especially Little Ann.

As a little present to the family, i took qt a bit of photos of them and i've procesed the photos and also burn the RAW files into a cd (in case they want to process into JPEG themselves) =)

Here's a few of my favourite to share!




"NAH! Your Phone Call!"



Ann's qt cute isnt she? :) I just realise the next time i see her, she would be so different!

Mini Project

I chance upon a few chrysalis on Monday and decided to bring one home.

Here's the set up, where the chrysalis hung silently for a few days.


I was hoping to capture the process when the butterfly emerge from the chrysalis, but it was already out when i woke up! How unfortunate!

(Photos by my good old Fujifilm compact)







I plan to bring this pretty little thing back to where i found it so it can find its friends and mate :)

While it's at home, it seems to be eating well! Check out the uncoiled proboscis.
Pardon the photo quality cos they were taken thru glass.)









I shall end with my favourite photo. The butterfly looks like it is trying to understand its own reflection. This was taken by wx with his macro attachment on my camera and lens :)



I love this project 'cos its like reliving my childhood fun of keeping bugs found in my grandma's garden.

And of cos, i was amazed by metamorphosis once again.

Good Day

I had a gd day today and had a small revelation that things that contribute to a gd day are often the small, simple things =)

Beauty Awaits

Words cant describe how much i'm looking forward to see the pretty one that will awake from its slumber :)

Strangely Varicella

I'm cutting holes on cellophane for a mini project. I must say it's kinda therapeutic :)

AH Butterfly Trail

I've been feeling antisocial of late, so i decided to drive to AH on my own after dropping my parents off at the Asian Civilisation Museum today.

Not exceptionally fruitful cos the butterflies all stopped qt far away (or didnt stop at all) and i didnt want to trample on other plants to get near to them, but still OK! cos i took photos of other things :)







Shall end the post with a B&W pic :)


Hope u had a great wkend :)

Tilt-shift Minature Effect

I have new found favourite!

I'm often not motivated to take landscape photos cos my natural inclination is to take macros.

Fren showed me these videos from the digital photography school newsletter. I like the effect of tilt shift lens cos it's like having a macro effect on landscape! Perfect.

Dont u think making things look like miniatures is uber cool? I encourage u to watch the videos in HD and fullscreen! :)





I love the music of the second video. Hope u all like it too!

Clementine

Love this song :)