Eagle

The eagle is a magnificent bird

Who soars with graceful ease

He’s a symbol of our heritage

As he glides upon the breeze

He’s a symbol of our freedom

In his soaring boundless flight

A beacon for humanity

And a splendid, noble sight

His huge wingspan maneuvers him

In boundless soaring flight

Oh eagle, in your majesty

May we follow you tonight

May we soar like eagles on the wings

Of dreams composed of light

Oh, eagle, in your splendor

May we follow you tonight

~ Emily M. Parris

Lujiaowan, Xijiang, China

Kyra Intimate Wears

Kyra on Camilia Vieira

Bangkok, 2012

Geisha

It is not for Geisha to want.  It is not for Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world.  She dances. She sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows. The rest is secret.

~ Arthur Golden

Bangkok, 2012

Silhouette

There are much to be found between the light and shadow.

Bangkok, 2012

Of flesh and stone

The most beautiful jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

~ Robert Ludlum

Bangkok, 2012

Eames La Chaise

When Charles and Ray Eames designed the La Chaise for a Museum of Modern Art competition in 1948, they may not foresee the design really caught the eyes of the world until 1991 when Vitra started to manufacture the design in serial production.

The original idea was inspired from the works of French American Gaston Lachaise

- the Floating Figure, back in 1927.  The original art work was casted in an edition of 7, now collected by MoMA  NYC (unnumbered), Society Hill Project, Philadelphia (1/7), Ray Stark Collection (2/7), Sheldon Memorial Art gallery (3/7), Lt John B. Putnam Jr Collection, Princeton University (4/7) and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (5/7).

I made this original artwork back in 2006 with a Phase One P45 back on Contax 645 mounted with Vario-Sonnar 45-90 zoom, a year before I designed my own “Spring Chair”.  My spring chair concept was not inspired by the La Chaise chair but from the photographing the chair, where I was inspired by the human body conform to a design which was inspired by a sculpture of human form.  It’s a cycle.  Interestingly and sad enough, Gaston Lachaise did not live to see his inspirational floating figure made into an iconic furniture while both Charles and Ray Eames did not live to see the La Chaise put into production.

I think the photography is an interesting applying art, and I am lucky of being both designer and photographer that I can use a visual imagination apply to an object to be designed, and thanks to the time I live where many industrial material have matured enough for more designs to be available to put into production.

Bangkok, 2012

Horse

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”

~ Winston Churchill

Aksu, Xinjiang, China, 2010

Random & Order

“Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.”

~ Henri Poincaré

Image captured with Panasonic GF-1.

Xiapu, Fujian, China, 2010

Xiapu

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.   ~ Henry David Thoreau

Image shot at Xiapu, a fishing county in Fujian province, south China.  Xiapu name in Chinese referred as a bank of sunset, for its beautiful waterfront of amberish color. Captured with Phase One P65+ on Hasselblad H2, HC 50-110.

Xiapu, Fujian, China, 2010

The megapixels question

2012 will be remembered a benchmark year that 2 major camera makers – Canon and Nikon switch rolls, SONY emerged beyond a sideline player, Sigma plays oddballs.

We have the archrival Canon and Nikon with one was playing catch up in megapixels and broke the megapixels count by an admirable 50% - 36.3MP from who does not speak of megapixels in the day of fallen behind while Canon now saying the have the ability to do whatever, but chose to stay low – 24MP for the merit of better image quality – finally lost its lead in megapixel war – on all grounds. 

SONY avoided the direct competition, and out smart all other divisions inside its own corporation, supply the cut-throat sensor to Nikon, then staying with its own game of SLT and mirrorless cameras and enjoy its success – while their corporation’s future shadowed due to bad sales on most areas outside image and semi-conductor department.

Meanwhile, Sigma continue to sell its way of calculation, rebrand the nice Foveon sensor on their camera SD-1 Merrill, DP-1 Merrill and DP-2 Merrill – with the latest X3 sensor – 4,800 X 3,200 pixels X 3 layers – so you would arrive at 46 MP as it is claimed by Sigma, and on its own camera only!  Would Sigma one day also sell its sensor to other manufacturer?  Hope so, after all, Sigma is a lens manufacturer supply lens of all focal length for varies camera mount – and chance is, it is likely to buy the lens with mount configuration other than Sigma!

Confused?  No, this is a great time to be photographers.

Image of Kyra lingerie shot with Sigma SD-1 Merrill, a camera well deserve respect!

Bangkok, 2102

Steve McCurry and the big cat

The rare and intimate moment of Steve McCurry.

Chiangmai, 2011

Window Display

A shot took in Crystal Design Center, a lifestyle home furnishing center in east Bangkok.  I was looking for some new bathtub and spotted this window display.

Shot with SONY RX-100, a small jewel in photographic world today!

Bangkok, 2012