USA - San Francisco (Part I)

San Francisco's terrain is full of slopes.. walking for 2 days there! haha. no joke! A pity I didn't capture the tram cars against those slopes, just like in postcards. haha.

we took BART from airport to our grand hotel at bush st.. walked up the slope with my 17kg backpack! nearly died! Then we walked around chinatown, the italian district, etc.

interesting... fr CBD offices to chinatown, to north beach.. each district is SO unique.. we climbed up to coit tower for view of the city as well :)

USA - Grand Canyon (part II)

I got a nice blue sky on thu :) After the freezing wait for sunrise, the temperature warms up...

desert view watchtower

El Tovar

sunset at lipan point

USA - Grand Canyon

Went to USA from 19oct to 10nov. Grand Canyon national park is one of my stops. Its my first trip to USA and its really an eye-opener :) Grand Canyon national park is indeed beautiful and inspiring...

wed when i reached south rim, it was very sunny. However, the sky looks foggy.. well, we did some hikes along the rim and took the shuttles sometimes along the hermits rest route. Tried to catch sunset at hopi point..maybe the sky is just too foggy.. can't really see the sun. Nonetheless, it was nice to just watch the canyon gradually changing its colours.. oh, it was damn cold after the sun set too!

trying to catch sunrise at mather point.. freezing cold morning.. almost can't press shutter! haha

My brother's wedding

8 october 2007 is a big day for my family. After months of preparation, from re-painting our house (yes, we did it ourselves), shifting furnitures to various wedding preparations (we choose photos together, yes whole family at the bridal shop).

I tried to take some shots though I'm not the official photographer. It was quite difficult as i find it hard to expose evenly and my flash control is not good. Also, I need to do other things as well. And due to tradition, I need to 'hide' cos I'm the eldest sibling. Anyway, i give up after a few shots when more relatives arrive at my house.

some thoughts: a good wedding photographer has to be very spontaneous and alert. Things are happening progressively. No retakes, no break. Of course, your basic photography skills must be there. Otherwsie its very hard to capture all those precious moments.

Moments at Mandarin-Oriental

Results are out! My photos didn't make it for the photocompetition "Moments at Mandarin-Oriental". Oh well, its a nice experience still :P after all, the 15 photographers were selected after a round of short-listing from the portfolio submitted and I'm glad I got to be selected to take part after all! haha

The Mandarin-Oriental hotel is very nice, especially after their renovation. I like the lounge area, very relaxing. The staff allowed us to go into their executive lounge too!I was still coughing a lot that saturday, thus i try to minimize my equipment. Didn't bring tripod. Was sort of regretting, especially everyone else using tripod. Nonetheless, I manage to get some pics i like.

I guess my weakness is still human potraits. For the competition, I didn't take much of people as well. It's more of taking the environment and the feel of the hotel.

Was quite tired after walking around, so i decide to play a bit :p prop up cushions to take this self-portrait =P

even went to swimming pool to do macro! hahaha

AG255 mega - amazing race style :)

This is a different mega outing. There's no guide, except instructions on where to go and how to get there by ourselves :p covered northern and central part of sgp.

The sky is so beautiful that day, so much that i didn't take much macro :p below is the one i like most from this outing.

inside and outside

Had fun and fulfilling day :) thanks to B who organise this :)