In the End

I wanna learn how to play this song!!

Keep Moving Forward

Something that inspires me to keep going on. (Thanks Jarratt!)

"If your results don't show, it doesn't matter how much effort you put in. It just shows that you did not put in enough effort."

I study.
I study until wee hours.
I study even more.
I study like hell.

I study.
What I'm doing now is twice the effort I put in during 'O's.
But who cares..

No one..

They only care about the results..

"Children-Watching"

People watching is an interesting thing to do. But have you tried "children watching"?? Well, I certainly have! And this is what I observed:

1) Boys LOVE dinos n those little soilders toys.

2) Girls LOVE teddy bears (especially those little girls! they love BIG fluffy bears)


3) Kids LOVE playing with water.

4) They LOVE this thing at the playground where you sit on it an someone else spins you round n round.

5) Some parents are very very very VERY against other people taking photos of their kids. And they will go all out to prevent you from taking!

Clean n green....or not??

Is Singapore really litter free??

Children

Children have the most beautiful eyes. They have the innocent look. One good reason why I enjoy taking photos of kids.

They have the nicest smiles and the loudest laughter. Where can you find such a pure heart?

They are also the most expressive beings- smiles, frowns and the funny looks.

Children..the best models one can find!

Reminiscence

-Art-

One thing I don't really enjoy doing in the past, but long to do it now.

I miss those days.

Going to the art room everyday to finish up my prep boards. Bringing colour pencils and drawing block to school everyday so that I can draw something when I have the time. Getting bad remarks from the teacher regarding my drawing.

I remember looking around at different things daily, trying to "train" my eyes to be able to see what colours an object consists of. My teacher said that I couldn't colour well as I can't see what "other" colours an object has. One day she told me to look at the fire extinguisher and asked me what colours i see. Immediately, I told her that it was red. And she said: "Wrong! Not only is there red, it has blue and a slight tinge of green!"

A fire extinguisher is red. Seriously, do you see blue and green?!

Well, those were the days...

I remember the days where I went back to school to help paint a mural outside the art room. All the emo and fun time I had. Painting that wall was not only fun, it made me understand and appreciate art better. And it proves that I CAN PAINT!! (but not like a pro..yet!)

Painting soothes the heart. Unless you can't seem to paint something that you want to paint. It's just like photography. Sometimes I see this scenery. I can "see" THE picture in my mind. But I can't seem to capture it down.

After seeing what you have done comes the best part~the sense of satisfactory!!

I miss those arty days..

Life

Sometimes you find yourself struggling to get to the top, just to find yourself falling back down to where you came from.

Life is harsh..

What's the point in struggling out of that eggshell? You may just die of exhaustion..

Is it really the best choice to keep on fighting?

Or it is better to just sit back and relax sometimes?

Maybe it's better to.....
disappear from the world?

Coincidence??

Two competitions, one same contestant, one same judge. And I happen to be covering both events.. what a coincidence??


Look at the guy in the middle..same judge!!



And the same contestant!

What a coincidence~

Tennis

My current favourite sport- Tennis =)

Shooting tennis seems much easier than playing it. But NOO!! It definately ain't easy!

Tennis ball is the fastest ball to catch in photography.

My first time turned out quite terrible. 90% of the shots had no ball!

I think this is one of my best shot that day=)

Serving- needs skill to shoot!

I only had 2 or 3 shots of the guy serving WITH the ball in the photo.

Hmm..not focusing on the subject brings out a whole new story??

Freezing a skill?

One thing I like about photography is that we are able to "freeze" things.
Don't get what I mean?
Let's take a look at Hiphop. Such fast movements can be frozen and captured.

At first, I wanted to shoot some arty shots where the movements are blurred. But then, I felt that when it comes to such fast-paced activity, maybe i should slow things down a little. So I increased my ISO to 800 and started shooting at 1/320 instead of the arty 1/60.

Emotions are one interesting thing to take note too. Sometimes a smile is the missing piece to the puzzle.

Or, that intense concetration could to the trick too. =p

Singapore

Happy Birthday Singapore!!!

Yeah 44th birthday=)

When someone talks about NDP, the first thing that will come to my mind would be: FIREWORKS!


Fireworks-something that I definately can't shoot well.
The hand-eye coordination (the 1st burst of fireworks and the pressing of shutter) is one serious skill needed to shoot. For a person who plays different sports that need hand-eye coordination, I didn't think that I would have such a problem. But, I guess that its just...different.
Well, practice makes perfect=)

Kranji War Memorial

Today I went to the Kranji War Memorial. The place is the most wuloo place in the world!! (look at the station, nobody!!) I met my friends at Kranji MRT station and we walked for quite some time (at least a 20 min walk) before reaching there.




The Kranji War Memorial is a quiet and peaceful place. One interesting thing I noticed about all the tombstones was that they were all facing outwards. I wonder why..

There are flowers in front of every tombstone. I think I saw at least 6 different type of flowers! Instead of shooting the tombstones, I ended up shooting the flowers instead! (It's a great place to shoot flowers!)

I think I will head back there again someday to continue to shoot the flowers =p .