Deep Deep Blue

Maybe it's just me, I always like winter since I was a kid, I suppose I was brought up in a country that is so freaking hot 24/7*365. Taking a holiday in Auckland during their winter is like a bonus to me. I love it there. Then i realize, winter in Auckland doesn't go well with photography, you hardly can see the blue sky (that's not the case when I was in Shanghai and New York). it was quite depressing cause most of the photos are spoilt with the dark grey clouds that filled the sky.

Fortunately enough, there are few days that the sky was really really blue, although for a short while. and this is one of it :)

ISO: 100
Shutter speed: 1/160
Aperture: f 9

What cha looking at?

Never expected to take this shot in the first place, I was walking around with Elaine, Alan, Jimmy, Elton, Jessie and my wifey on the beach, then this little man flew from afar and landed on the table in front of me. I didn't do much framing here, cause it's a matter of second before he decided to fly away. this photo is "so called" my safety shot.

I guess a very good lesson learned here is to never keep your camera in your camera bag if you still have batteries and memory cards, you'll never know if something interesting decides to happen in front of your own eyes.

ISO : 100

Shutter Speed : 1/60

Aperture : f 4

Weekend in the Museum

This shot was taken in one of the museum in Auckland, it's not a fantastic shot, but it reminds me of my younger days where I start playing computer games and dad will be chasing me away because he wants to do his work.. those are sure good old times.. missed those time in dad's office :)

ISO: 400

Shutter Speed: 1/60

Aperture: f4

The Little Red Hut

Stuntman in action I would say, I did a bloody bold U turn in a middle of an expressway where cars are driving around 100 - 120 km an hour. Just because of this little red hut. I thought it would be a very good photo given to the contrast between the building and the grass with a cloudy sky...

Hope you enjoyed this one

ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Aperture: f9

Oh My Greens !

This is just one of the many breath taking views that i manage to capture on the way to None Tree Hill (used to be one tree hill before the tree is being chopped off)

It's just breathtaking !!!

ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Aperture: f9

Reflection

You might have noticed by now, that I love to shoot colours and reflections, this is one of the shot I took when I was in Auckland, not my best but one that i really like because my touchup is minimal for this shot.

ISO : 100
Shutter Speed: 0.3 Sec
Aperture: f 4

Bee-Do-Bee-Do

I actually havent finish my post processing for the photos I took in NZ, but I just cant resist posting this after wifey and me went to watch Despicable Me2... Bee-Do-Bee-Do...

I think out of so many photos I took so far, this is the one of the few rare photo(s) that took it in a machine gun mode... if you are a fellow photographer, you should know what I mean. It just happened so fast! lucky I always have my baby turned on (naughty, naughty, I mean my camera switched on) when I'm with it.

Hope you enjoy this

ISO:100
Shutter Speed: 1/6
Aperture: F9

Reflection

I'm lucky to get this shot, Elton, Jessie, Wifey and myself are heading back to Alan's place, we tried to go around the town in a Bus in Auckland, but one thing we didnt know is the walk back to Alan's place a quite a walk...

While everyone happily rushed back so that we can have dinner together, I spotted a puddle of water from far, Initially I approached it because I wanted to take some reflection of the buildings from the water, but surprisingly Birdie here flew on top od the puddle of water to check on hairdo, or featherdo.

With my equipment already on standby, I approached slowly and take the shot.

One good lesson learned if you are in a shooting mood, always have your camera on standby

ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/2000
Aperture: F2.8

Lonely Winter's day

This is one of the last few shots I manage to take in Auckland before the end of my holiday :(, Alan and Elaine together with the 2 little monster Emily and Jimmy (although i call them monster but then again they are really nice kids)

But being me, I cant resists calling people monsters... learned this from my teacher... haha

This is one of my favorite shot, although I think the composition could be better, but the feeling is there in this photo, it brings out the feeling of a Silent Lonely Winter's Day feeling... so I thought that you might like this :)

ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/400
Aperture: F9

I See a Sea

I took this shot when I went to NZ for my honeymoon. As I am quite interested to see the photo quality of the Tamron 24-70 so I went ahead and rented and boy .. it sure is heavy

But the quality of the photo is not too shabby dont you think?

ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 160
Aperture: 2.8

True Blue, I Like !

I never understand what the heck is so beautiful about true blue (I was either sleeping or getting ready to party at these time) plus the Lighting is not Enough, Shutter speed is slow and the thing that I hate most USING A BLOODY TRIPOD!

But then, since Francis is here, I might as well try to learm abit more from him, so We happily sneaked up to the top floor of a parking lot and waited, and the worst thing in is, we cant smoke in the building. while I was patiently waiting, I was also impatiently waiting for us to finish so that I can go and smoke (bad habits) ! But as the evening gets darker the lights gets more visible and then finally I understand why Francis is happily waiting with his tripod and shutter release... for a priceless shot.

ISO : 100
Aperture : 20
Shutter Speed : 30 Sec (almost wanted to do bulb)

Call me COLOURFUL !

When I was about to leave the shooting ground, this young couple was just riding their bike in front of me. Francis and David were packing their gear while I was literately running towards the young couple with my DSLR trying to hide my presence like a ninja !

ISO : 100

Aperture : 13

Shutter Speed : 1/4 

I wanna look FIT

After the lovely couple, within 5 seconds there was another lady who jogged in front of me, and again i took another shot, since I have comfortably say on the floor (getting lazy nowadays). Not too bad of a photo as it turns out to be.

ISO : 100

Aperture : 5.6

Shutter Speed : 1/60 

Love is in the Air!

It is not everyday when you see a Caucasian (Ang Mo) with his Asian wife or girlfriend taking an evening walk by the river and enjoying the beautiful day, well... at least not in Singapore. most of them ended up in shopping malls due to the hot weather.

ISO : 100
Aperture : 5.6
Shutter Speed : 1/100

Architecture shooting !

What's new? Architecture shooting ! been a long time since I went out shooting with my Photography Teacher, Francis Lee and since he is out for a shooting, I cant miss the opportunity but to tag along.

ISO : 100
Aperture : 32
Shutter Speed : 1/5

Old Buildings

Was in Ipoh, Malaysia in a place called Old Town, i saw some contractors trying to refurbish some really old buildings, I hope these photos can bring back old memories of people who used to stayed in this area

ISO : 100
Aperture : 9
Shutter Speed : 1/80

The Hidden Temple

I was trying to shoot the hidden temple, but i was thinking, maybe to make it more hidden, i should shoot it in front of some leaves... i guess it worked okay...

ISO : 100
Aperture : 8
Shutter Speed : 1/13

The Door

Nothing stands out more than a Red Door in a middle of a limestone cave ! I was waiting for at least 10 minutes for this shot, lucky me, there is finally someone who is coming my way, lucky day for me :)

ISO : 100
Aperture : 2.8
Shutter Speed : 1/25

Saturday Night Fever in a Limestone Cave

We were at a limestone cave and Gabbie was doing this Saturday night Fever dance move, and I was happily shooting his moves from far. well, at least I have a free model for the photo :). Priceless


ISO : 100
Aperture : 2.8
Shutter Speed : 1/25

Up in the Air

Can't resists this shot, when i was taking a forker plane. the view is just simple amazing. As usual, my itchy fingers, wont stay calm... again...

ISO : 100
Aperture : 7.1
Shutter Speed : 1/1,000