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News!

I’m aiming to write more from now on, instead of just dumping a bunch of out-of-context images every week. This is to help add more context to the images that I post. While most images should be able to stand on their own — an important aspect of documentary photography — but I feel that words should still properly complement the images wherever possible and relevant.

And so, here goes….

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This little fella came and perched by the kitchen window one morning. He seemed oblivious as I ran off to grab my camera, lens and teleconverter and snapped off a couple of shots. This one is a relatively moderate crop, about 58% at 280mm.

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Birthday and goodbye

Very eventful week. It was Helena’s birthday, and later it was time for her to say goodbye to my mother who’s going back to Penang.

Portraits, The Return of

It was a good week for portraits.

Tagging

Believe it or not, I just discovered tagging and its relationship with categories. So I’m starting to tag new posts, as well as (slowly) going through old posts and adding tags to them. I’ve also enabled the Tag Cloud over at the right. Whee, tags!!

Framed like a vignette

I was mostly sick this week, didn’t do much….

Weekend heat

Horrible weather (so hot!!), and falling sick over the weekend isn’t fun. Helena’s still sparkly and lively though.

Portraits again…

… and some miscellaneous shots.

Portraits

A certain plumbing incident put me in a pissy mood this weekend, but at least evening lighting was quite good today.

FPJ Practice

Nothing particularly unique this week… just a greater emphasis on family photojournalism (FPJ)-styled shots to practice/improve/refine my techniques.

This week’s showcase

A variety of stuff happening this week.