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Photographing Birds with Your Ears It is already extremely challenging to look for an elusive bird in the rainforest in daytime, let alone searching for nocturnal bird at night. This is where ‘photographing birds with your ears’ comes into play. Borneo has beautiful luscious green rainforest with rustling foliage by day and totally pitched dark... Continue Reading →
Masked Finfoot | Early sighting in 1992|Malaysia Masked Finfoot | Early sighting in 1992 | Malaysia In the early 90's, not much was known about the Masked Finfoot (heliopais personata), an aquatic bird, except for its distribution in eastern Indian subcontinent, Indochina and Malaysia. There were a few reports of its early sighting in Taman Negara,... Continue Reading →
Bar-bellied Pitta. Regional endemic bird in southern Vietnam.
4D3N Bird Photography Trip to Ganeshgudi, Karnataka, Western Ghats India.
Asian Emerald Cuckoos in Bangkok. Bird watching in Thailand.
Landscape Photography Iceland|HDR
The awakening of the Sunda Scops Owl at the Singapore Botanical Gardens|UNESCO World Heritage Site Observing the Sunda Scops Owl at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (UNESCO World Heritage Site) was a learning experience for me since it had a very ‘narrow shooting opportunity’ before the daylight fades. It is also a test of the capability of... Continue Reading →
Photo Travel Asia | Early morning walk from the Singapore Merlion. Have you done anything different out of the daily routine recently? How many sun rise do you see in a year? I went to see the sunrise at the Merlion in Singapore. The Singapore Merlion was designed by Fraser Brunner for Singapore Tourism in 1964.... Continue Reading →
Creative Lighting in macro Photography Workshop in Singapore The Skipper family ( Hesperiidae ) is a common butterfly found in many parts of Singapore. Here I used the different ambient light and flash light power to control the different effect of the final image. Which one do you like ? I personally prefer the more... Continue Reading →
As the earth magnetic field arcs out from the north and south magnetic poles, it traps atomic particles, protons and electrons that are emitted by the sun in the solar wind. As the particles decend, they interact with molecules in the rarefied upper part of the Earth's atmosphere and produce a glowing radiation of light... Continue Reading →
I would ask the participants of the 2 day photography workshop in Singapore “Why are you here?” After a few of them have shared their reasons, Lena shared hers. She said to the class looking at me “My daughter came to learn photography from you a few years ago. She completed the basic and... Continue Reading →
2 day Lunar New Year photography workshop Singapore. If you love crowd, this is the busiest time to be in China Town in Singapore where most people are shopping and preparing for the Lunar New Year on 31 January 2014 to welcome the year of the horse. We took this opportunity to conduct our regular... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year 2014. Here are sequences created from still images with your DSLR. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZFJAtWEMpM
Tiny micro frogs in pitcher plants, Kubah National Park, Sarawak, Borneo We have been to Kubah National Park in Sarawak for many times to photograph the many variety of frogs but never paid attention to the tiny micro frogs near the pitcher plants until recently. Vincent from Kuching and I visited the park one late... Continue Reading →
Santubong Nature Festival Borneo - Macro Photography WorkshopThe Santubong Nature Festival was held on 9 and 10 November organised by Malaysian Nature Society Kuching Branch and Permai Rainforest Resort in Santubong, Sarawak, just 45 minutes from Kuching. The two day event was organised to promote the awareness and appreciation for nature. Here are the speakers for the... Continue Reading →
First image of Dulit Frogmouth
Creative Travel Photography On the topic of Creative Travel Photography, I would like to inject something less serious but fun photo. Seeing double ? Recently we were in Spain and Anna took this photo with the iPhone and edited in Adobe Lightroom ( i.e. cropping, colour balancing etc ...). If you explore the panorama feature on... Continue Reading →
What is Creative Travel Photography ? Are snap shots of our travel images enough to be called travel photography ? What makes travel photography interesting and challenging that evoke feelings about the place we visit ? Travel photography is a sub category of photography just like fashion photography or portrait that it focuses on certain subjects. We see... Continue Reading →
Depth of Field - Full frame sensor versus Cropped Frame APS-C sensor Many of us love the blur out of focus background of the lens we called " bokeh" normally generated by very wide open aperture like f/2.8, f/1.8 or even f/1.4 . However, those lenses are not always cheap (except the 50mm f/1.4 or... Continue Reading →
2 day Travel Photography Workshop Singapore - Slow down, be still and grab the moments. We had a 2 day photography workshop in Singapore last weekend. After we nailed down the panning shots, everyone was eager to take the next challenge. Learning how to see and capture. The place was chaotic, busy but colorful. What... Continue Reading →
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