bah humbug! it's monday again. life is dead for another 5 days. sigh.
last thursday, we had a big party for some overseas visitors. pretty clothes, fine wine and you know the rest. a nice break from my mindless routine.
last saturday, the little one had a bowling birthday party. lots of kids, food and funny moments. if only i can start remembering faces!!
last sunday, the mother hen brought all five (not all mine) children to pay respect to their great-grandparents at the memorial park for the very first time. a lesson in filialness.
lots of kodak moments. lots of potentially beautiful shots. i brought my camera and i envisaged myself slipping around quietly, taking candid photos of touching moments. i love beautiful photos, i don't know why. i find it touching and inspiring. something about a frozen laugh, a suspended gesture stirres deep.
my first encounter with magical photos was during a holiday to pangkor laut with some friends. after 3 days of lazing around the poolside, playing in the sea and just lapping up the beautiful ambience, i went back fully satiated. mr. friend showed me the pictures he took of the holiday, and i was totally taken aback. it was so breathtaking, like the glossy pictures that jump out from advertorial magazines, and i was in awe. to have spent 72 hours in post-card beauty and not recognise it. there was a desperate yet intangible need to catch that beauty, to preserve the charm. that's where and when i was hooked.
but the physical act of taking photos is not simply pressing the button and chee-chak out comes glamourous pictures. the mood, the ambience, being quietly by yourself, observing all that goes around, being a part of it all. to be in a new place, or a new time. so far i have not been able to do any of that. my relatively quiet photo blog will be testament of that. inspiration is hard to come by when you see the same old things everyday. i always end up rushing here and there, getting caught up in the middle of things and letting things go by before i have the chance to freeze frame it eternally in the shutter window. maybe it's called living life.
it's a tiny regret now. but it is also something i look forward to. when things are not so hectic. when i have a small window of time to myself. to catch all the beautiful things in the world. and freeze frame it for memories.
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want to know how to take great pictures that you can frame & hang on your walls for years to come? take all your pictures with me in it! :P
taking photograph that you would be proud of?
there are different routes you can try.
you can go on the technical (landscape & nite scene) or philosophical (photograph jutapoxing with killer poignant caption) or composition (great subject matter that basically anthing goes).
i like photography but i dont have a good camera and technique, so i try the 2nd and 3rd method. You can see some of my "masterpiece" at flickr under seefei.
hope that helps.
dear wuchy: yehhhhhhhhh!!!!! *grins* smile....chee chak.
dear fei: i like "sentosa 1" best of all. but it's not so much how and where but when. when u hv a couple jumping around, calling daddy 24/7 you'll understand.
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