picture of the day

Overall, this piece isn't a good one, but, i find a little humor in this one.

Photo note: I think I was using f/1.8 for this shot, hence the very sensitive focusing. Focusing had to be precise, else, you'd probably get something like this.

See how the little boy admired the model? It makes you wonder what runs through his mind huh?

countdown again

Update: I just filled up the expensive fuel for the first time since the hike. At RM 2.69 per litre, I needed total of RM 77.50 to fill up a almost-empty fuel tank. I pumped in 28.81 litre of fuel, which would have cost me about RM 55.03 before the hike (RM 1.91 per litre).

Another countdown.

Sorry, lack of post. In some sort of transition period now.

Will be back with more post soon, probably something related to this picture for the day:

It's not from recent event, but it's something you don't see every now and then. ;-)

a lonely boy and two cute girls

Kids.

I find them a gem to capture in photography. Their expressions are so innocent and naive. I caught this kid in my frame while there was this fashion show going on at the time.

"Feel so lonely, so so so lonely.."

Cute, aren't they?

hollywood bridal fashion show @ theSpring part 3

The last part of the show. Models parading the bridal wears on the run, together with the male models.

11 photos in total.

Hair Styling by Richard & Iris. The girl looked like a doll here.


The Gents.

Their group photo, take from side.

That's the end of the show, for the bridal wear that is. A few more to come next.

hollywood bridal fashion show @ theSpring part 2

Part 2 of the fashion show.

The ladies. 10 photos, no words.

Photo comment: All other photos were shot without flash, where this one was shot with fill-in flash. I shot with a bare-naked flash, without any diffuser, flash was pointed to the model directly.

End of part 2.

hollywood bridal fashion show @ theSpring part 1

After the basketball posts, I'm gonna post on some photos I took on the Hollywood Bridal Fashion Show the other day.

It's a continuation from this event.

We rarely have bridal expo this year, in fact, none yet up till this point. But from time to time, we have this small scale fashion shows around the town. Again, I'm gonna post some big photos here in the blog posts. Well, that is until some changes later this month. Yeah, will touch more on that soon enough. (It's part of the countdown.)

Okay, it could be nicer if this is presented in slide show format with background music, but we'll just make do with still photos only.

Okay, that's it for this part one. I don't wanna add more to the weight for you guys to load now. More to come up next.


End Note: I'm getting myself to familiarize with the Apple's Aperture 2.0, which is one of the best photo management tool, all-in-one tool.

it's harvest season - happy dayak festival!

It's Dayak Festival here in Sarawak on the 1st June. So there'll be 2 public holidays on the 2nd and 3rd of June, with 3rd June being a replacement holiday, as 1st of June falls on a Sunday. In other words, long weekend in Sarawak here. :-)

Pardon me with the quick work on the Dayak Festival picture, I used bout 15-20 minutes to do it, including searching my own image library to do a photoshop.

Happy Holidays everyone! Happy Celebrating to all the Dayak friends, or anyone who celebrates the festival. :-)


Cheers!

hollywood bridal fashion show @ theSpring - the preview

Bridal fashion show.

This time round, it was a bridal fashion showcase served up by Hollywood Bridal, a Kuching-based bridal studio. The fashion show followed through by the Miss Spring Time, of which I posted a couple of posts earlier.

Let's take a sneak peek on what the show was like that day. You know we could tell if the show is good with just the crowd's attention, right? The larger the crowd, the better the show is, no?

So check item #1 - The crowd.

Okay-lah, there are people concentrating on the model, and the dress, of course, while aiming their camera's crosshair onto their target.

Notice the "xiao bai" (mini white cannon) in the middle of the pack?

*cough* And er.. ahem.. some of you may think the girl in yellow is cute, no? *cough*

Check item #2 - the model.

The model looks cute, right?

So with the two items checked, the show should be an okay one. :)

So, check back again to see the show through my lens. I used my EF 50mm f/1.8 throughout the show. I'm really loving my 50mm. Wanna get other lens, but I'm in financial constrain to do so.


Oh, and i spotted this too. It's my friend in the picture again. LOL! His 'wedding shot'. LOL

total randomness: the secret affair.. lol!

Let's have a break and check out these paparazi shots on someone's 'secret affair'. LOL!

Spotted two familiar figures in the Spring, but couldn't confirm the identities for the two.

Can you see them?

Looks like they're pretty close, hmm... fishy.. If only I can see who they are..

Gotcha! Oh, ain't no secret affair, it's just the dynamic duo of Jimmy & Irene. LOL!

Okay, those were purely random! LOL. Sorry guys, I hope you don't mind. I've gotta clarify that there are nothing in between them. :)

Also, spotted this on Hollywood Bridal's roadshow, my friend was featured in that piece of work. You can see more of him in Hollywood Bridal's website at www.hollywoodbridal.com.

And finally, there was this guy who tried in vain to be Mr.Invisible. I wasn't the only one complained about it. I've heard a few already, and 90% of the time he's in the position as below:

What a sight, isn't it?

miss springtime

Some 10 days ago, there was a World Harvest Festival event in the Spring shopping mall. And, I was so happened to be there with my arsenal. How coincident, not.

I was told that there would be some fashion show going on, so I was there to see see look look check things out.

In conjunction to the World Harvest Festival, they have this pageant campaign going on, which is known as Miss Fair Lady. What happened in the Spring that day was for one of the subsidiary for the contestants. Winner for that round would be crowned as Miss SpringTime. I think I got those info correctly.

The actual Grand Final would be held in Sarawak Cultural Village, of which the event was just recently concluded.

I didn't gather much information on this event, I wonder around and snap a few pictures. I even let my guard down and let other 'paparazi' to snap picture of me. LOL.

There would be cultural performances by the Sarawak Cultural Village's musicians and dancers during the interval of every show.

That afternoon was really hot and scorching outside the building. And for that, the lighting was even more intense when the sunlight breached through the windows from the top. That made things hard for me to get the right exposure.

The contestants were out to help promoting some product from the sponsors.

Smile, you're on camera!

The stage cum runway were decorated to a long house theme, in conjunction to the harvest festival.

We can see the all excited contestant.

Giving her best smile.

So, who do you think is the fairest of all?

#12 was given the SpringTime title.

So did she go all the way and win it all till the end? I don't know to be frank, you've gotta dig up the old newspaper and search for the result. I think I saw the report on frontpage of Borneo Post yesterday.

There were some fashion shows lined up after this 'pageant' thingy. Stay tuned for more photos.