07.08.2011, Morning

Sunday Morning Street Photography Walk: From Imbi Market to Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur

I am gonna eat you sometime! It's just that I have too many other stuff to eat today that I didn't eat you. I ate the delicious and famed toasted buns, drank the Hainan tea, ate the pork intestines noodles, crunchy "Ah Pong"... hmm...

The Leica M6 is still my favourite camera. This is one camera I don't think I will ever sell. I don't mind another M2, M4 in the future... and maybe the M9. But I still love the independence from camera batteries... stuff that are totally mechanical! No "auto-shut-off", No "restart-lag", No "running-out-of-batts"...

Photographing streets is for my soul. It takes attention off myself, it reminds me of tougher lives out there, it takes time off "trying to please others", it takes time off the dollar sign!

It's also a good slimming exercise! Haha...

06.08.2011, 3:58pm

04.08.2011, 4:26pm

02.08.2011, 10:10pm, Guardians

29.07.2011, Sashay Red

28.07.2011, Drinking Nite

27.07.2011, Petaling Street

26.07.2011, Klang

25.07.2011, a day late, but it's nice!

24.07.2011, Busy Shopping in Singapore

A Good Friend, 14.07.2011

12.07.2011, A Good Friend

A straightforward sincere friend

11.07.2011, self-portrait

The First Time my wife held my Leica to photograph me.

10.07.2011, Dannok, Thailand

09.07.2011, Ipoh

06.07.2011, in a shopping mall

27.06.2011, 1pm-2pm

Foreign workers adapting to our local Malaysia culture and environment

My Current Status:
I have been using my film rangefinder since 17.06.2011 Friday on impulse. I kinda "lost my brain" on 18.06.2011 Saturday after something unhappy happened between my dad and I. This past week, or over a week has been a week of extreme joy and sadness at the same time. I still have rolls of undeveloped film since 17.06.2011 in which I will make it a point to process, scan and upload ultimately in this diary in sequence. For now, please bear with my inconsistency.

The joy of shooting film over digital is immense for me. The lack of convenience of live views, instant previews, high ISOs, autofocus, just to name some of them forces me to look into myself more, my skills and my vision, the lack of multiple frames, looking for chance shots, if you know what I mean.

I also realized my love for photography is indescribable in words, as indescribable as when you first fall in love with a lady, I suppose.

And too often, what you really want deep inside you, no one else knows. Only you know.

Now, that's my secret. :)

26.06.2011, A New Friend

21.06.2011, Batu Caves

Went to Batu Caves with these 2 jokers!

15.06.2011, 10:26am

The Awareness of Time

14.06.2011, 4:25pm

My Fetish for Umbrellas isn't over!

13.06.2011, about 11am

My Client Today, Emma. This is one rare occasion when I can get my films scanned the same day which I shot it.

12.06.2011, 3:40pm

Location: Ipoh, Malaysia.

Don't ask me what it is, I don't know why this is here too?!

11.06.2011, 1:40pm

Did I tell you I have a fetish for umbrellas lately?

10.06.2011, Free Expression

9:28pm

The distortion makes the gate sticks right in your face. I think the struggle of free expression in "controlled environment" is always in the hearts of artists in Malaysia or Singapore.

09.06.2011

08.06.2011

07.06.2011, Desktop Day

Work, work, work... (EXIF: ISO200, 1/8sec, O.S. on 18-55mm ON)

My Faithful Dog (EXIF: ISO6400)

Easily Contented (EXIF: ISO6400)

06.06.2011

The Importance of a Maid in Year 2011 (EXIF: 1/1600sec, F10, ISO3200 )

Enlightening Facts (EXIF: 1/40sec, F5.6, ISO3200)

The Pride of a Security Guard (EXIF: 1/20sec, F3.5, ISO6400)

05.06.2011, 8:44pm

My Son's Toys

James, a restaurant waiter who takes pride in his job, more pride than some managers I've met.

04.06.2011

My Choice of Camera and Film today, Canon VI-T, Russian Jupiter 12 35mm F2.8, Agfa APX400.

My Feelings Today: "No Eye See!" (Cantonese), which basically means there are some people and things that happens in life which you wish you have no eyes to see! Hahaha...

Enjoyed my day running 4 rolls of film through my trusty, heavy, metallic and robust Canon VI-T rangefinder in the streets of Klang, Malaysia.

03.06.2011, 8:20pm

I've never seen such long hair before, especially for a teenager!

02.06.2011, 11:22am

01.06.2011, 9:15pm

31.05.2011, 4:34pm

30.05.2011, 3:02pm

It's out-of-focus. So what? I like it!

29.05.2011, Our Next Generation

5:21pm

 

5:23pm

28.05.2011, 9:39pm

Gingerbread Men made by my son

27.05.2011, 7:26pm-7:27pm

7:26pm

7:27pm

26.05.2011, 9:25am

This morning I had a short walk at the wet market with my XZ-1. I took a couple of shots I like, and I plan to convert them to black and white, which is my preference. I still prefer to present pictures one at a time, for viewers to contemplate on it for a while, before any possible conclusions are made. So I have decided to slowly present my collections in my other blog "Images That Speak" in time to come. As for this diary, the above shot shall be my memory of today.

About the above image, I have a fetish for umbrellas. I have an impulse to capture moving subjects. This shot was taken from behind some man-made shades of a street stall. And I just pressed the shutter button on impulse when I felt someone approaching real close. I had no idea who he/she looked like. I like to freeze moments like this. Now, I can slowly enjoy what I have captured.

25.05.2011, 9:35am