The watching eyes

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
~ Nan Porter

Morning at the flower market, Bangkok

Good Morning Bangkok

Ferry on the Chaophraya River.

Bangkok, 2011

Dum spiro, spero

~ Cicero

Bangkok, 2011

Season's Greeting

The W$rld ain’t over yet in 2012.

Christmas 2011, Bangkok

The moment between photographer and his model

Steve McCurry and the beautiful Kaylie Bodeker, and their moment.

Bangkok, 2011

Marco Polo

“I have not told half of what I saw”

~ Marco Polo

Thanks to Michael Yamashita in his National Geography story and book, help us with imagination for the rest of story.  

Bangkok, 2011

Cassy Silver

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

~ Tony Visconti

Bangkok, 2011

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry’s portrait with Suzanne Loh, former Miss Malaysia, shot after the Dior shoot.

Bangkok, 2011

Classic Looks

There is no good look or bad look; eventually there is only classic look.

Bangkok, 2011

Light and shadow

Although shadow came from light, it also defines light. 

~ Kaisern Chen

Bangkok 2011

Compact camera shoot around

One of the most basic rule in photography I would usually tell whoever asks advice is any camera on hand is better than no camera, well, today can be different given the arise of camera phone, and I might just borrow what Steve Jobs said, the iPhone might be just the best camera, as he said the iPhone may be the best iPod.

Anyway, the point is, having something to shoot is better than just watch – as a photographer.

This is an image taken earlier with a very simple Canon Digital iXUS 750, in fact just because it is compact and convenient to frame the image, one can in fact capture shots that otherwise difficult if using larger camera.

Chiangmai, Thailand

Portrait of Anna M. Czarnecki

A portrait of beautiful Anna M. Czarnecki.
Shot with Canon 1DsII + EF 85/1.2L, location light: Bron-color Mobile

Slim, RCA, Bangkok

Sunset over The Pacific Ocean

This is an image taken on the flight TG466, over looking The Pacific Ocean off the coast of islands of Indonesia.   Calm ocean surface perfectly reflects the clouds above it, and one would realize it was given such a name.

Taken with SONY NEX-5, from the air, Indonesia, 2011

Skin Tone

A complicate subject to shoot simply because it dominates the image area in shot such as this one.   It is true today’s digital technology allows extreme flexibility in controlling the white balance therefore the skin tone can be tuned into many shades, let along all other controls in Photoshop.

But this is just a simple shot, simply to portrait a beautiful girl, fragile, and delicate.  A girl grown up!

SOTA 96, Bangkok

Staying young

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

~ Franz Kafka

SOTA 96, Bangkok

Of Tree and Paper

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Ejina Qi, Inner Mongolia, 2011

Sunset, Melbourne

This is in fact shot in the same location about ½ hour before the shot of last post.  It is toward the end of a beautiful Sunday in Melbourne.

Shot with Canon 5DII + TS-E 17/4L.

Melbourne, Australia, 2011  

Melbourne at dusk

Melbourne peacefully entering into dark!  Shot with Canon 5DII with TS-E 17.4L.

Melbourne, Australia, 2011

Homecoming

“Homecoming unites the past and the present.” ~ Unknown

Badain Jaran, Inner Mongolia