Images of 2009

Here are some of the my favourite pictures i have captured on my BBF for 2009...

Enjoy!

Chinatown on a hot Saturday afternoon.

Absolutely love the effects that Agfa Vista 400 negative gives me on this picture. The blue and the red stands out very strongly giving a x-pro feel.

A moment in my dream of glass.

Emo girl by the river.

She is a friend posing for this picture, and she was smiling away on the other side...lol.

Giant dandelion that glows in the dark.

Best picture out of all my night shots. Night shots are notoriously difficult to capture with long exposure without a stand, let alone using just a lomo camera. The bright lights reflecting upon the leaves just manage to give me enough light and enough time to steady my hands.

Two sides of Little India.

Best of my double exposure experiments. The bright red cab was a lucky catch. It added just the spice to make this an interesting picture.

我要一步一步往上爬。。。

Day market, Cameron Highlands.

My most perfect lomo image. Vignetting effects, colorful merchandise, x-pro bluish green effect, top with sprockets on the sides. Niceeee....

Endless staircase.

I choose the most practical way for my photo shoot in Cameron Highlands: On foot. This great image proves why I am not crazy to go all the way there alone just to shoot pictures on film.

Remembering the Fallen.

My 1st shoot on a redscale...and it was hard! This is the only image out of the 36 shoots that came out with the 'rusty' effect I was looking for. But this one timeless image is worth all the effort...

Jimmy's Pan of Fury!

The Breakfast Club

Was inspired by the song 早安,晨之美 to make good breakfast, and here is my 1st creation!

2x Cheese hotdog
2x Toast with apricot jam
1x Canned baked beans
Scrambled eggs!!!

Here's how i prepared the scrambled eggs:

Put 2x eggs into a pot and throw in about 1 tea spoon of butter. Do not whisk! Put the pot over the flame and start stirring. Pull the pot away from the flame once in a while, as eggs are very delicate food, and they are cooked very fast. Repeat the process a few times. Towards the end, throw in a table spoon of Cream (which i didn't have). This is done to cool the eggs, as they have a tendency to overcook even after leaving the flame.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Chocolate Hills

Wonder if you guys have heard of this place "Chocolate Hills" before. No Kidding man, this place really exist...

The Chocolate Hills is an unusual geological formation in Bohol, Philippines. According to the latest accurate survey done, there are 1,776 hills spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers. They are covered in green grass that turns brown during the dry season, hence the name.

Lomography

“Don’t Think, Just Shoot”

Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, "happy accidents," and alternative film processing are often considered part of the "Lomographic Technique."

The 10 Golden Rules:

1) Take your camera everywhere you go.

2) Use it any time – day and night.

3) Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it.

4) Try the shot from the hip.

5) Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible.

6) Don’t think.

7) Be fast.

8) You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film.

9) Afterwards either.

10) Don’t worry about any rules.

Wish List '09

1) A pair of baker mitts

2) A nice chinese calligraphy brush

3) Good health for a close friend. I hope she can put on 10 more kg before the year is done...

4) A nice cook book

5) Silence by Shusaku Endo

6) Kind understanding and forgiveness for my mistakes and wrong doings for the past 1 year

7) Wisdom and strength for the next 1 year